Learning Lab: Fireside Chat: The Research Behind "Who Gets to Keep Up" with Sandhiya Thiruvengadam

You've felt the bar move. AI fluency isn't one skill you master and check off. It's a moving target, and you're often left wondering whether you're keeping up, falling behind, or measuring yourself against a standard nobody bothered to define.

Sandhiya had a question she couldn't shake: what does AI fluency actually mean, and who gets left out of the definition? As an HR & AI Enablement Leader working at the forefront of how leadership teams define this inside their own organizations, she started digging. She read 41 published AI-fluency frameworks, mapped what "fluent" actually means across five levels, and named the four access conditions that decide who gets to climb and who gets left explaining themselves. What started as an idea became a tool you can actually use.

Join us for a live conversation where Sandhiya will walk through:

The findings — the five-level trajectory, the access conditions almost no other framework names, and what fluency is actually worth in the job market.

How she built it — from a question she couldn't let go of, to a working interactive tool, with the support of the WDAI community behind her.

A live demo — 5–10 minutes hands-on with the fluency locator, followed by open conversation. This is a working v1, and your questions and pushback are exactly what shapes what comes next.

What you'll walk away with:

A way to place yourself on the fluency trajectory, and language for where you actually stand. A first look at a tool built specifically with WDAI members in mind. A community thinking through this research together, in real time. A little more clarity on where you're headed, starting today.

https://researchwomendefiningai.netlify.app/