Laura Gates
I'm an AI Training & Adoption Strategist and academic researcher with software engineering experience. My work bridges the creative and technical, drawing on two decades in academia to bring rigour, curiosity and communication skills to software development and AI. I’m currently building a real-time platform for collecting feedback during live workshops and events, and I speak and write regularly about the overlaps between performance and code.
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Session
This talk traces how the uncanny—that productive tension between familiar and strange—shapes effective prompt engineering. I'll explore how Weizenbaum's, Mori’s and Turkle's pioneering work reveals psychological dynamics we can strategically leverage, and how understanding this lineage leads to more powerful human-AI interactions.