Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc.

Join Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc. on Thursday, June 18, 2026 at 12:00 Noon for this Community Development Loan Information Session. See Comment Section for Link to Register Today!

On this day, Your at Southeast Rural Community Assistance Project, Inc. want to wish everyone a respectful and peaceful Memorial Day.

Is the AI industry a modern-day empire? 🤔

Join VAIPL and Dr. Mary Finley-Brook, Professor of Geography and Global Studies at the University of Richmond, for an in-depth, thought-provoking book club of “Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI”, written by Karen Hao. 📖

Sign up here: https://bit.ly/491CU5q

This book is a journalistic investigation into one of the largest AI companies, OpenAI, which owns ChatGPT. Together, we’ll explore OpenAI’s interworkings, the human and environmental costs of AI, and ethical and intellectual property concerns with AI usage and development.