The Artificiality Summit 2025

A future-forward, opportunity-focused gathering for people interested in AI, creativity, design, and knowledge. 

Join us on October 23-25, 2024 in Bend, Oregon our second annual Summit.

The Summit will focuse on “The Artificiality”:  the emerging paradigm where the boundaries between organic and synthetic systems blur, driven by the fundamental role of information and computation in complex systems.

The Artificiality encompasses the reshaping of human consciousness, identity, and experience through our increasing symbiosis with digital technologies, artificial intelligence, and information networks. It challenges traditional distinctions between living and non-living, evolved and designed, biological and artificial, proposing a new understanding of life and intelligence based on information processing and computation.

The Summit will explore five key domains where AI is transforming human experience:

• Intimacy: How AI reshapes human relationships and connections
• Spatiality: The impact of AI on our experience of physical and digital spaces
• Knowledge: Evolution of learning and discovery in an AI-augmented world
• Consciousness: Shifting understanding of human and machine awareness
• Minds: The emergence of hybrid human-AI cognitive systems

Speakers will be announced soon. Last year's speakers included: Joscha Bach, Jonathan Coulton, Adam Cutler, Katie Davis, Jamer Hunt, Michael Levin, Josh Lovejoy, Don Norman, John Pasmore, Steven Sloman, Elena Sergeeva, Aekta Shah, Barbara Tversky, Ashley Tyner, and William Tyner.

Feedback from our 2024 Summit:

For those who didn't make it in 2024, here are some of the reactions we received:

• "Thank you, Helen Edwards and Dave Edwards for the engaging, diverse group you have put together. This is not your everyday conference, and especially not the everyday AI conference." Don Norman
• “I will remember the Artificiality Summit, well…forever. It was more intellectually compelling than anything I can remember participating in.” John Pasmore
• “The Artificiality Summit struck the perfect balance of rigor and playfulness, formality and informality. It was a dazzling event and a impeccably curated roster of speakers.” Jamer Hunt
• "Still glowing from the conference, so much intelligence, but also kindness, safety and warmth.  A humane and vital discussion of technology as a part of humanity and humanity as part of something much bigger." Whit Morriss
• "From the beginning to end, it was a perfectly curated weekend of building connections, sharing ideas and having genuine conversations across science, design, art and the innovations that are expanding our future and imagining what can be next in AI." Abigail Snodgrass
• "That was one of the best tech experiences I have ever had. I have been to all sorts of screwball conferences and big-name experiences. I even built a few. But yours was something different. It was intimate, humble, and curious. A little feisty, a little nervous, but completely authentic. On Sunday afternoon, I looked around and thought, 'THIS is my tribe.'" Dave Merwin

Artificiality Summit 2025 Details

• Due to limited space, Artificiality Summit will be invite-only event. If you have not yet received an invitation, please submit your interest below and we'll be in touch. 
• Location: Bend, Oregon
• Opening at 5pm Thursday October 23. Closing at 9pm Saturday October 25.
• Super Early Bird Fee until December 31, 2024: $995
• Early Bird Fee until May 31, 2025: $1,995
• Standard Fee: $2,495
• Fee includes all content, meals, entertainment, and more! Yes, you'll enjoy some of Bend's best food as part of your attendee fee.
• Corporate sponsorships are also welcome and will help extend our reach and include more people. Please email us at hello@artificiality.world for more information.