AGI at GWU

AI keeps getting better. Let's think bigger!

AI is getting better much faster than researchers are adopting it. The cost of reaching a given level of AI performance is falling about 13× per year, but many of us have settled into working with it for human-sized code, stats, and figures. That opens a growing gap between what we're working on and what AI can do.

We think there's far more on the table. AGI at GWU is a local, AI-native research community built around an AGI mentality: AI is already good enough to transform research, and it keeps getting better. We see two bottlenecks, and we meet on Wednesdays to work on both:

• Adoption: Claude Science workshops, led by Claude Campus Ambassador Riley Leff, give newcomers a fast, supported path to working hands-on with AI.
• Ambition: Frontier Talks invite researchers who are pushing the boundaries of their field with AI to share their ideas and workflows. The human path and the AI path to a field's goals might be different, and the AI path may already be shorter. We hope to find patterns that emerge across fields and spark big-picture discussions about our research.

We host Claude Science Workshops and Frontier Talks, Wednesdays, 5:00–6:00 PM. See the calendar, the about page and FAQ, or register to join the email list.

Upcoming

• Joe Hanly On The Frontier: Evolutionary Genomics. Frontier Talk, Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Welcome to Frontier Talks! We have Joe Hanly on where evolutionary genomics is headed, and how AI is changing his work.
• Claude Science Workshop 2: Vision. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. You sent in your biggest computer vision problems: let's see what Claude can do with them! I'll briefly cover a few approaches to computer vision and the bitter lesson, then we'll put Claude to work on a few of your problems to see what's possible.
• Frontier Talk 2: TBA. Frontier Talk, Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Speaker TBA.
• Claude Science Workshop 3: TBA. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Topic coming soon.
• Frontier Talk 3: TBA. Frontier Talk, Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Speaker TBA.
• Claude Science Workshop 4: TBA. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Topic coming soon.
• Claude Science Workshop 5: TBA. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, January 13, 2027, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Topic coming soon.
• Frontier Talk 4: TBA. Frontier Talk, Wednesday, January 20, 2027, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Speaker TBA.
• Claude Science Workshop 6: TBA. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Topic coming soon.
• Frontier Talk 5: TBA. Frontier Talk, Wednesday, February 3, 2027, 5:00–6:00 PM, Room TBA, Foggy Bottom campus. Speaker TBA.

Past

• Claude Science Workshop 1: Hello World!. Claude Science Workshop, Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM, Science & Engineering Hall, Room 8750 (Greenhouse Lab). Say hi to Claude! At our first workshop, we'll get everyone set up and investigate an interesting genome with Claude Science.