The Artificiality Imagining Summit 2024 gathered an (oversold!) group of creatives and innovators to imaging a hopeful future with AI. Tickets for our 2025 Summit will be on sale soon!
This week we dive into learning in the intimacy economy as well as the future of personhood with Jamie Boyle. Plus: read about Steve Sloman's upcoming presentation at the Imagining Summit and Helen's Book of the Week.
Explore the shift from the attention economy to the intimacy economy, where AI personalizes learning experiences based on deeper human connections and trust.
The Imagining Summit will gather a creative, diverse group of imaginative thinkers and innovators who share our hope for the future with AI and are crazy enough to think we can collectively change things.
Join us on October 12-14, 2024 in Bend, Oregon for a 42 hour retreat dedicated to Imagining a Hopeful Future with AI—in partnership with the House of Beautiful Business, DXM, and BEL.
At the Imagining Summit, we aim for productive imagination—the process of envisioning possibilities that extend beyond our current experience. Through creative exploration and collaborative discussion, we seek to imagine a path to a hopeful future with AI.
Together, we will craft a new vision and design philosophy for human-machine collaboration—in which AI serves as a Mind for our Minds, amplifying humanity's creativity, culture, knowledge, trust, values, fun, play, and understanding of the world. We will synthesize this work into a collectively authored report shared after the Summit, with the hope of catalyzing change.
We acknowledge the profound, even existential, risks presented by adopting AI. And we reject the utopian AI rhetoric, fear Big Tech's fantasy to make machines that replace us, and worry about the impact of the unthinking AI hypesters and influencers. At The Imagining Summit, however, we will set aside the current hype and future fears to imagine a future we can hope for. Because if we can imagine it, we have a shot at creating it.
The Imagining Summit will feature a series of conversations and collaborative sessions about topics like creativity, expertise, fun, knowledge, spatial reasoning, trust, and values. These conversations will be led by some of our favorite minds, including Jonathan Coulton, Adam Cutler, Katie Davis, Jamer Hunt, Michael Levin, Josh Lovejoy, Don Norman, John Pasmore, Steven Sloman, and Barbara Tversky. These conversation catalyzers will bring rich and inspiring ideas to help lead all collaborators in an exploration of the possible.
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