AI Self-Sufficiency Lab
Use AI safely. Make something useful. Leave with a plan.
A practical three-session Lab for immigrants, students, families, and community groups—co-led by Atta Arghandiwal and Sohrab Rasouli.
Now inviting first host and sponsor conversations.
The three sessions
A short path with something to show at the end.
A three-session guided experience that helps immigrants, students, families, and community members use AI more safely, create one useful output, and leave with a practical 30-day plan.
Judgment and safety
The first session is about deciding what a tool is for before using it. Participants set one goal of their own, learn where a person has to stay in charge, and write a first prompt they can use safely.
You leave withSafety Card, one goal, first safe prompt.
One useful output
The second session produces something real — a letter, a plan, a summary, a set of questions — then checks it. Participants verify what the tool produced and revise it in their own words.
You leave withFirst draft, verification checklist, participant's own revision.
Present and plan
In the third session each participant presents what they made and leaves with a plan they can act on without the group.
You leave withRevised output, short presentation, 30-day plan.
Co-led
Two people, two responsibilities.
Dignity and responsibility
Atta Arghandiwal
Atta leads dignity, responsibility, lived experience, self-sufficiency, and the human meaning behind the work.
Safe practice with the tools
Sohrab Rasouli
Sohrab leads safe AI use, prompting, verification, exercises, and useful outputs.
How it runs
Small groups, clear limits.
- Group size
- 10–20 participants
- Length
- Three sessions, each up to 90 minutes
- Virtual
- Available anywhere
- In person
- Available in the San Francisco Bay Area
- Travel elsewhere
- Only with a written travel and expense agreement
- Price
- Agreed in writing for each host. No public price.
Responsibilities
What each side brings.
What the host provides
- The group and one planning contact.
- An accessible room or virtual setting.
- Participant coordination and known language or accessibility needs.
- The agreed tools, accounts, schedule, and written terms.
What Atta and Sohrab provide
- Three guided sessions of up to 90 minutes.
- Exercises and participant materials.
- The Safety Card, a checked useful output, and a 30-day plan.
- The stated privacy, verification, and human-judgment boundaries.
What happens next
Four steps, no surprises.
- Tell us about the community.
- Hold a short planning conversation.
- Confirm audience, access, schedule, responsibilities, travel, and payment in writing.
- Deliver the three-session Lab.
Other ways in
Not hosting? There are two other routes.
Join a future cohort
Individual cohorts are not scheduled yet. You can register interest and Sohrab and Atta will be in touch when a suitable group is forming.
Boundaries
What this is not.
These limits are stated in the room, in the materials, and here, because they are the point of the Lab rather than a disclaimer at the end of it.
- AI is not a lawyer, doctor, immigration adviser, tax adviser, lender, employer, or final decision-maker.
- Do not enter private identity, financial, medical, immigration, employment, or confidential documents into public AI tools.
- Check important information with official sources or qualified people.
- No employment, income, admission, funding, loan, immigration, or business outcome is promised.
Who hosts a Lab
Built to sit inside an organization people already trust.
Host or sponsor
Tell us about your community.
Hosting and sponsorship both start here. Five short steps, and you can stop at any point.
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- What you are asking about
- The group
- When and how
- Funding and reporting
- How to reach you
Join a future cohort
Register your interest.
No cohort is scheduled yet. Leave the minimum we would need to reach you, and nothing more.
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