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Featured in Domain Arrivals · 2026-08-12

Lectorium: an AI lecture club in Moscow

lectorium.pro ↗ · Civic & Public Life · score 79.0
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A regular public forum where AI researchers, engineers, and practitioners discuss how artificial intelligence is changing work, culture, cities, and everyday life.

Why it surfaced

This is not an online course or one-off conference: the project schedules meetings every two weeks, pairing an hour-long talk with audience questions and informal conversation. Its physical venues include Moscow drinking houses and a technology museum, giving the AI conversation an unusually tangible social setting.

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This is one of 1,000 discoveries in the 2026-08-12 Domain Arrivals issue.