Dr. Harry Wong

Dr. Harry Wong's Sample AI Lecture Topics

“Clarity for today. Wisdom for tomorrow. Hope for generations.” — Harry Wong

Dr. Harry Wong's AI Book Series

The Human Role in the Age of AI
The Essential GuideThe HorizonThe Middle GenerationThe Young GenerationThe Guiding GenerationThe Complete Collection
“As AI grows more capable, what matters most is becoming more capable—and more human.” — Harry Wong

Harry's Sample AI Lectures

More than technology: practical questions about judgment, capability, relationships, learning, and responsibility.

SENIORS AND AI

AI can be especially useful for older adults because it can make technology more conversational and less intimidating. Instead of learning complicated menus or commands, seniors can increasingly ask questions in ordinary language and use AI to help with everyday planning, writing, travel research, learning, hobbies, and staying connected with family.

This lecture also focuses on judgment and protection. AI makes scams, fake voices, misleading messages, and synthetic images more convincing, so seniors need practical ways to slow down, verify what they see and hear, and know when not to trust the machine. The goal is not to turn seniors into technologists—it is to help them use AI confidently while preserving independence, privacy, common sense, and human connection.

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INDIVIDUAL AND AI

AI can be extraordinarily useful for thinking through choices, but it should not become the person making the choice for you. This program shows how to use AI as a thinking partner for major life decisions, everyday planning, creativity, and self-development while keeping values, trade-offs, and final judgment in human hands.

Examples can include asking AI to surface options you have overlooked, test your assumptions, identify risks, and ask better questions. The central lesson is practical: use AI to widen your field of view, not to surrender the steering wheel.

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FAMILY AND AI

AI is entering family life through communication, education, caregiving, entertainment, and unfortunately scams. This program explores how families can use AI to strengthen connection rather than replace it, including personalized stories, shared learning, planning, and intergenerational conversations.

It also shows how family members can protect one another from emotionally convincing AI-enabled fraud. The goal is a family that becomes more informed and more connected as AI becomes more capable.

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EDUCATION AND AI

Students can now obtain polished answers almost instantly. That makes the human side of education more important, not less. This program shows how AI can serve as a Socratic partner, tutor, practice coach, and research assistant while students continue to do the thinking that builds real ability.

Harry introduces practical ideas such as Major+1, proof of learning, productive struggle, projects, portfolios, and visible evidence of growth. The objective is not simply better grades; it is stronger judgment, curiosity, independence, and adaptability.

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WORK & PROFESSION AND AI

AI is changing professional work faster than most job descriptions can keep up. This program helps working adults think beyond the question “Will AI replace my job?” and toward the more useful question “How do I become more valuable with AI?”

Topics include Profession+1, using AI as leverage, building proof of work, strengthening client and colleague trust, and concentrating human effort on judgment, communication, leadership, and responsibility. AI can become the engine; the professional still needs to be the compass.

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SOCIETY, NATION & WORLD AND AI

AI is no longer only a personal or workplace tool. It is changing how communities share information, how nations compete and govern, and how the world uses energy, infrastructure, data, and knowledge. This lecture connects those levels so audiences can see how decisions made in one sphere ripple outward into the others.

Topics can include scams and synthetic media, protecting shared reality and public trust, national AI capability and resilient institutions, the rapid construction of large AI data centers, energy and climate pressures, global supply chains, and risks that cross borders. The central question is how societies can gain the benefits of AI without losing the human judgment, institutional competence, trust, and stewardship needed to use that power responsibly.

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Dr. Harry Wong's AI Book Series

The Human Role in the Age of AI
The Essential Guide
VOL. 0

The Essential Guide

The best place to begin. The Essential Guide brings the central ideas of the series into one practical volume organized around the individual, family, education, work, society, nation, and world.

It focuses on the human capabilities that become more important as AI becomes more capable—judgment, critical thinking, relationships, responsibility, purpose, and the ability to use AI without surrendering human agency.

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The Horizon
VOL. 1

The Horizon

The big-picture volume. The Horizon looks beyond today's AI headlines to the larger transition ahead—how AI may reshape work, education, family life, institutions, and everyday decisions over the coming decades.

It gives general readers and families a shared framework for thinking about the future without panic or blind optimism.

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The Middle Generation
VOL. 2

The Middle Generation

For working adults and professionals. The Middle Generation focuses on career resilience, leadership, family responsibility, and how to remain valuable as AI becomes part of normal professional work.

Key ideas include Profession+1, proof of work, using AI as leverage, strengthening trust, and concentrating human effort on judgment, communication, leadership, and responsibility.

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The Young Generation
VOL. 3

The Young Generation

For students and young adults. The Young Generation asks what young people should learn and demonstrate when AI can already produce polished answers on demand.

It explores Major+1, proof of learning, portfolios, productive struggle, attention, communication, character, and using AI to accelerate learning without weakening independence or curiosity.

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The Guiding Generation
VOL. 4

The Guiding Generation

For parents, grandparents, teachers, and mentors. The Guiding Generation is about helping young people use AI wisely while still building real ability, judgment, character, and independence.

It offers practical ways to preserve productive struggle, verify genuine learning, guide rather than police AI use, and keep human relationships at the center of education and development.

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The Complete Collection
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The Complete Collection

The complete integrated journey. The Complete Collection brings the major volumes together so readers can see how the same AI transition looks different across generations.

It connects recurring ideas such as human judgment, proof of work, Major+1, Profession+1, learning, trust, and responsibility into one coherent framework.

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Harry's Sample Live Concert Themes

Programs can be adapted to audience, occasion, and available time.
Broadway & Great American Songbook

Broadway & Great American Songbook

A program built around memorable stage and popular standards. Representative selections can include songs associated with Oklahoma!, My Fair Lady, Mary Poppins, West Side Story, and the Great American Songbook.

The emphasis is on melody, storytelling, and songs that immediately bring back a favorite show, singer, or era.

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Oldies but Goodies

Oldies but Goodies

A warm, nostalgic program of classic popular favorites such as The Impossible Dream, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, The Hawaiian Wedding Song, and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing.

It is designed for audiences who enjoy familiar melodies, romance, and songs that carry strong memories.

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Nat King Cole Tribute

Nat King Cole Tribute

A tribute to the warmth and elegance of Nat King Cole, with representative songs such as Unforgettable, Mona Lisa, and Around the World.

The program highlights graceful phrasing, romantic melodies, and the understated style that made Cole's recordings timeless.

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Elvis Presley Tribute

Elvis Presley Tribute

A tribute to the romantic and dramatic side of Elvis Presley, including songs such as Can't Help Falling in Love, It's Now or Never, and Are You Lonesome Tonight?

The emphasis is on the songs themselves rather than imitation—familiar music presented with respect and warmth.

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Rat Pack Tribute

Rat Pack Tribute

A stylish program inspired by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., and the Rat Pack era. Representative songs can include My Way, Everybody Loves Somebody, and Strangers in the Night.

The mood combines sophistication, nostalgia, and some of the most recognizable standards of the twentieth century.

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Matt Monro Tribute

Matt Monro Tribute

A tribute to Matt Monro's polished romantic style, with songs such as From Russia with Love, Born Free, and Walk Away.

This theme is especially suited to audiences who enjoy elegant ballads, movie songs, and classic romantic singing.

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Sample Full Concerts

Watch complete performances from Bay Area retirement communities.

Lecture + Concert

Where ideas meet music.

Being Human in the Age of AI

A thought-provoking conversation about judgment, relationships, meaning, and human responsibility paired with familiar live music. The format can move naturally from a short AI demonstration or story into songs that reinforce memory, emotion, and human connection.

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AI, Life & the Music We Love

A lighter AI conversation followed by a concert of familiar songs. This works well when an organization wants substance without making the event feel like a formal lecture from beginning to end.

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The Human Connection

A program about trust, creativity, shared experience, and the things that remain deeply human in an AI-driven world, with music serving as a living example of memory, emotion, interpretation, and connection.

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Customized Program

A lecture, concert, or combination tailored to the organization, audience, occasion, and available time. Themes can be adjusted for senior communities, libraries, professional groups, educational organizations, and community associations.

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About Harry

A life at the intersection of artificial intelligence, business, teaching, family, and the arts.
Dr. Harry Wong

Artificial Intelligence and Research

Dr. Harry Wong earned his PhD in Computer Science with a focus on artificial intelligence from the University of Toronto and has written more than fifty research papers. His technical background gives him a long view of AI—well before today's generative-AI boom—and also a healthy skepticism about treating technology as an answer by itself.

Teaching and Business Leadership

He taught at the University of Toronto and San Francisco State University, then built and led an enterprise software company for thirty-five years. Major corporate customers, including many Fortune 500 companies, used products from his company for optimization, communication, and migration to the enterprise cloud. Those experiences reinforced a conviction that technology alone is never enough: judgment, communication, trust, and human understanding determine whether powerful tools truly serve people.

Author of The Human Role in the Age of AI

Harry's book series brings together his experience as a researcher, teacher, entrepreneur, employer, father, grandfather, and community lecturer. The books are written for general readers—not only technologists—and focus on the human capabilities that become more important as AI becomes more capable: judgment, critical thinking, curiosity, relationships, communication, character, purpose, and responsibility.

Family Perspective

Harry is a father of four and a grandfather of three. Family life shapes his approach to AI because the technology is not only changing businesses and schools; it is changing the choices families make and the world younger generations will inherit. He writes and lectures with the goal of helping generations develop a shared language for navigating that future together.

Music and Human Connection

Harry is also a classically trained singer who has performed in opera houses, concert halls, community settings, senior communities, and programs for older adults, including people living with memory loss. Singing has reinforced one of the central ideas running through his work: human beings are not simply processors of information. We are memory, emotion, relationship, dignity, music, and meaning.

Across AI, business, education, books, family, and music, the through-line is the same: technology can expand capability, but human judgment gives it direction and human connection gives it meaning.

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Harry accepts a limited number of engagements each month and travels periodically. Please send your preferred date—or several possible dates—and we will respond regarding availability.

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