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AI panel at Utah Business and Commerce urges experimentation, open‑source and ‘vibe coding’
Summary
At a Utah Business and Commerce panel, three AI practitioners urged rapid experimentation, open‑source ecosystems and workforce training as keys to applying AI. Panelists described projects from citizenportal.ai to an open‑source AI operating system and warned leaders to prioritize iteration over all‑or‑nothing fixes.
A panel at the Utah Business and Commerce conference brought three AI practitioners together to press a simple point: experiment fast, keep people central, and lean on open source.
Paul, CEO and co‑founder of Soar AI, said his company citizenportal.ai is working to transcribe public meetings across the United States, extract topics and generate articles so citizens can stay informed. “We’re the first company I think in history to try to transcribe every public meeting in The United States,” Paul said, describing the project as a response to declining local news coverage.
Travis, a longtime open‑source and Python contributor, framed open…
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