ROW EDITION · updated Aug 8, 2026
Cool Tools · AI in Action · Know the Rules
Three standalone 50-minute workshops for NCW AI Expo 2026. Spokane fire focus. Fountain Room 3. Built for rows of seats, seat-neighbor units, and evidence people can open.
The final format
9:00–9:50
Cool Tools: Discover Your AI Toolkit
Known / Suspected / Rumor, a four-lane tool tour, and a prompt-injection lab.
10:00–10:50
AI in Action — Put the Tools to Work
Community response, mini-camps, a deliberate bad run, and a five-sentence policy.
11:00–11:50
Know the Rules — Use AI Well
Failure sorting, Scout / Autopilot, HARMS, receipts, and signed checklist rows.
Each block stands alone. People work with a seat neighbor, in a triad, or solo. Row captains collect index cards and read one sentence per row. Attend all three blocks and complete the six-row checklist.
Linked program table of contents
Opening: gratitude, blessing, and the fire anchor
Land acknowledgment
We gather today in Wenatchee, on the hereditary lands of the šnp̓əšqʷáw̓šəxʷ — the P'squosa, or Wenatchi people — whose villages stood along the Wenatchee River from time immemorial and who today live on as part of the twelve bands of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. We acknowledge the Yakama Nation treaty territory that reaches this valley, honor the Spokane Tribe of Indians and all fire-affected tribal communities east of us, and thank the tribal nations represented in this room for their enduring care of lands and waters. Read the full acknowledgment and blessing protocol.
Invite an elder or designated representative to offer a blessing, arranged with an honorarium before the event. The blessing belongs to the person who gives it: never script or AI-draft it. If no representative is present, hold a moment of silence for fire-affected communities.
The anchor is local: the Spokane-area fires brought evacuations, destroyed structures, rumors about causes, fake maps, scam donation sites, and decisions no model should fully own. The repeated opening line: “Everything you just heard came with a source you can open. Almost nothing you saw on social media this week did.”
Room mechanics for rows
Seat kit
Clipboard, checklist, HARMS worksheet, folded layers placemat, three K/S/R cards, golf pencil, and a QR card. Pairs share a driver laptop or phone; solos use their own device.
Row captains
The aisle seat collects cards, hands them to a facilitator, and reads the row's single-sentence share-out. Personal worlds are chosen, not assigned: teacher, student, administrator, council, small business, utility/data center, or tribal member.
What changed — and why
| Original format | Row Edition final format |
|---|---|
| One 3-hour workshop | Three standalone 50-minute workshops, each ending with an artifact. |
| Seven persona tables | Seat neighbors, triads, or solos; people choose their world without moving furniture. |
| Sticky notes at each table | Index cards passed to the aisle; row captains collect and read the share-out. |
| Tools spread by table | A fire-themed hands-on example from every tool in every lab. |
| Generic failures only | The Spokane fires are the live anchor; the original eight cards remain in the kit. |
The fire anchor is local, has immediate stakes, and makes the governance problem visible: unverified information moves faster than truth, while evacuation orders, claims, and prioritization are decisions no machine should fully own. The New York Times.
The 90-second verified fire open
- Old Trails (~3,600 acres), Autumn Lane (~5,800), and Fairview (~1,000) were among fires north of Spokane; containment and evacuation information changes, so presenters show the date and source on screen. FOX 13 Seattle.
- Coverage reported roughly 65,000 people evacuated and 840+ structures destroyed, described as Spokane County's largest natural disaster. CNN · The New York Times.
- Conditions included major wind, dry fuels, a statewide emergency, and a rare “Particularly Dangerous Situation” red-flag warning. CNN.
- Causes remain distinct from conditions: one arrest related to one fire did not confirm causes for all the others; the Kaiser Canyon fire on the Colville Reservation was reported as lightning-started. CNN · Spokesman-Review.
“Everything you just heard came with a source you can open. Almost nothing you saw on social media this week did. That gap — between a claim and its receipt — is what this hour is about.”
Workshop 1 · Cool Tools: Discover Your AI Toolkit
9:00–9:50 AM
9:00 Open: land acknowledgment & blessing, row mechanics, circle your world (4 min) · 9:04 “Rise From the Ash” — the 90-second film · 9:06 Fire anchor facts + the flip (2 min) · 9:08 K/S/R · 9:14 four-lane tool tour · 9:30 hidden-instruction Lab 1 · 9:40 share-outs and checklist rows 1–2.
Exercise A1 — Known / Suspected / Rumor
Units hold up K, S, or R for six claims. One arrest for one fire does not make “the fires were arson” known. Separate ignition, conditions, and speculation. Open the six cards and revealable debrief.
Guided tool tour
Ask & check: Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM, Glean. Make & organize: Gamma, Magic Patterns, Lovable, Bolt, Replit Agent, ChatPRD. Capture / voice / video: Granola, Wispr Flow, Khanmigo, ElevenLabs, inVideo AI. Copilot → Autopilot: Microsoft Copilot and Scout. Open every fire-themed prompt. Watch all 19 demos with simulated screens.
Lab 1 — Break it yourselves
Paste the innocent-looking fire damage claim letter into a chatbot and ask if the applicant is eligible. Then reveal the white-font instruction. The antidote: check inputs and load real guidance for comparison. Open the fictional training letter.
Rows filled
Row 1: check inputs for hidden instructions, stale data, missing voices. Row 2: “Citation or it didn't happen” — a verification habit in one sentence.
Workshop 2 · AI in Action — Put the Tools to Work
10:00–10:50 AM
10:00 reset · 10:04 community-response and tribal fire story · 10:10 mini-camp run 1 · 10:25 intentionally bad run · 10:35 map response / write policy · 10:43 rows 0 and 4.
Community response is governance in the wild
Tell four true response stories, then connect each to a governance habit:
- The neighbor who stayed: Josh Kaufmann moved sprinkler to sprinkler and helped save around ten homes. KREM 2 — a named human in the driver's seat.
- The bootmaker and the neighbor who kept giving: JK Boots supplied 50+ pairs; a resident whose home burned kept asking shelters what each needed. KIRO 7 — match a defense to a real need; inventory before action.
- The organized shelter: Red Cross sites served people and pets with SpokAnimal, while the county portal routed giving and volunteers. American Red Cross · Spokane County mutual aid.
- Tribes as co-authors: Mount Tolman crews, tribal space, and unified command show local ownership in the response. Colville Tribes · NW Fire Watch.
Then count the helpers: 176 jurisdictions, many states, Australia, and international mutual-aid systems. Open sourced helper facts.
Lab 3 — Your world’s mini-camp
Run script → tool → good outcome → bad outcome → teachable moment for your chosen world. Teachers build a deck; administrators compare policy drafts; council checks a warning record; small businesses hold Copilot replies for owner review; utilities ask what an always-on agent must never own; tribal members use NotebookLM with sourced coverage. Open the tool-by-tool examples.
Exercises B1 & B2
Map the community stories to the six layers. Then write a five-sentence shelter / donation policy: what AI may do, never does, who approves exceptions, labels, and where receipts live. Open the placemat.
Rows filled
Row 0: the one decision never fully delegated. Row 4: a specific first-seven-days move.
Workshop 3 · Know the Rules — Use AI Well
11:00–11:50 AM
11:00 one rule and six layers · 11:08 sort failures · 11:20 Scout deep dive · 11:30 HARMS · 11:42 sign checklist rows 3 and 5.
Human stays in the driver's seat. AI does the painful work. Always truth-grounded. Keep the receipts. Never lower a guardrail without raising a defense somewhere else.
Lab 2 — Sort the failures
Place original and Spokane-fire failure cards on the layer that failed; mark which Yes was lost: never got there, did not stay, or could not recover. Open all 13 cards with sources.
Microsoft Scout / Autopilot
What changes when an agent acts without a prompt? The room maps named identity, testing, frontier gates, containment, conformance, and audit trails to six layers. Open the sourced deep dive.
Lab 4 — HARMS the autopilot
For an always-on agent inside emergency management, name Humans affected, Adverse outcome, Risk defenses, Mitigation & owner, and Signal & receipt. Row 0 is the evacuation-order test. Open the worksheet.
Rows filled
Row 3: weakest layer and named owner. Row 5: biggest plausible harm, defense, and receipt.
The six-row First-30-Days checklist
| Row | Prompt | Filled during |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | The line we hold — one AI decision never fully delegated. | Workshop 2 |
| 1 | See what the machine sees — check inputs for hidden instructions, stale data, missing voices. | Workshop 1 |
| 2 | Citation or it didn't happen — verification habit. | Workshop 1 |
| 3 | Our weakest layer — and the name of who owns fixing it. | Workshop 3 |
| 4 | Week-one move — from the 30-day guide. | Workshop 2 |
| 5 | Our biggest harm, mitigated — outcome · defense · receipt. | Workshop 3 |
Open the printable / phone-friendly card or download the Row Edition First-30-Days PDF.
Every artifact, ready for projector or phone
Kit page
Six-row checklist card
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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HARMS worksheet
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Six-layer placemat
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Known / Suspected / Rumor cards
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Failure cards
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Claim-letter prompt-injection lab
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Prompt library
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Land acknowledgment & blessing protocol
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Count the helpers
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Microsoft Scout / Autopilot deep dive
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
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Rise From the Ash video script
QR-ready, mobile-first, and print-friendly.
Sources & receipts
- CNN fire updates, The New York Times, The Spokesman-Review, and NPR for fire facts and alerts.
- Wenatchee River Institute, Wenatchee Valley College, and Colville Tribes for place, acknowledgement, and fire-center context.
- KHQ, NBC News, Reuters, and NIFC for helpers and international mutual aid.
- Computerworld, TechCrunch, and Cybernews for Scout / Autopilot context.