Salon discussions gave birth to the nation-state, freedoms, and rights.
In Enlightenment-era Paris, people gathered over coffee for discussions of a better future.
Announcing
@TheAISalonSF
, an SF-based community that hosts weekly conversations on AI and Society. 1/🧵
The AI Salon is coming to Twitter Spaces! We'll be hosting spaces Wednesdays at 7pm PST weekly here on X
If you're interested joining as a speaker for future events please DM us or
@andercot
Our next Ai Salon session will be on Religion. Here's what people are interested in discussing:
- How does Ai help us understand our existing religious traditions?
- Will there be room for spirituality in a technology dominated future?
- Are we giving birth to some kind of god?
Join us Sunday March 24th to discuss the Eschatology of a Technological Singularity.
Topics may include semiotic physics, constructed realities, computational universe, and the cognition of simulacra.
"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him"
AI will continue to grow as both a conduit and object of religious experience. We dove into this at an Ai Salon last year.
Ai Salon is ramping up its events for the remainder of the year, hosting weekly in-depth intimate salon-style discussions in Hayes Valley.
November 1st is our larger collaboration event with
@GenAICollective
at the
@MindsDB
HQ in Mission
register here:
Our first space will be Wednesday January 24th with the topic of AI and Personhood - who do we consider members of our society and will it always be limited to just humans?
Ai Salon has more events coming your way! Here's a look at our upcoming calendar:
Nov 12: Accountability and Liability
Nov 16th: Misinformation @ MindsDB ( Large Event! )
Nov 19th: Video Games
This was one of the very best events I have ever been to in SF. Terrific discussion around the societal implications of generative AI, cautious optimism, properly weighing near-term risks, and so much more.
You have built something truly special
@Andercot
and
@Ian_Eisenberg
!
Our next salon is about education. This is one of the areas where AI seems poised to have tremendous benefit. Looking forward to the discussion!
Sign up here:
Thank you to everyone who came out to our large gathering AI Salon hosted at
@thesfcommons
!
Leave a comment with an interesting insight or takeaway you had from the discussion, or questions you'd love to explore more next time.
Our event calendar:
The promise of neurotechnology is oft-fetishized, but the path forward requires a sober disentangling of social context from physiology, and an embrace of new approaches to treatment.
We distilled a recent discussion on Neurotechnology on our substack. Link in comments
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In-person, regular, intimate conversations helped define modern nation-states, forms of government, civil rights, and a new era of prosperity and freedom
In an age looming with rapid AI transformation, the role of discussion is greater than ever for rejuvenating civil society
AI friends have the potential to hack our dopamine - never criticize, always enable, make no demands of us.
We discussed this and solutions at our second ever Salon in June
Join us Nov 6th for the second installment of Ai Salon - Dating and Relationship
Ai Salon is looking to throw bigger events and feed the people!
If you've enjoyed a past Ai Salon event and think it should reach wider audiences, covering more topics in greater depth, we are now looking to partner with one or two sponsors.
Get in touch if you're interested
I host weekly discussions on the impact of AI on different topic areas of society,
@TheAISalonSF
We've had over 2000+ guests to our events, and have 820 subscribers to our Luma calendar. The attendees are mostly startup founders, VCs, engineers and researchers as well as
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The social institutions of salons are more than conversations, they are co-creation and cross-pollination of ideas.
Diderot, Voltaire, and Rousseau laid the intellectual framework underwriting the French Revolution which forever changed western society.
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@TheAISalonSF
hosts weekly discussions in Hayes Valley exploring the impacts of AI through the lens of sociology, economics, politics, and cultural identity.
Registration is open to the public, and each week participants are hand-selected to ensure balanced and lively groups
The Ai Salon is Back! Join us this Sunday in Hayes Valley, SF, as we discuss the intersection of physics, simulated realities, and artificial intelligence.
Sunday October 8th, 4pm
Hi all! Our next AI Salon is on Science: .
Please share to anyone who might be interested! We're particularly interested in people working in science (industry, academia, whatever!) or applied AI. But, as always, all are welcome to sign up!
Ai Salon loaded up our calendar last week with the next batch of events.
This Sunday the 15th we'll be discussing a topic that is unfortunately all too relevant right now - the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, National Security and Defense.
@Philip_Edgcumbe
@Andercot
(2) We *do* think we can scale. We want to empower other hosts, the GPT itself brings our conversations and insights to others, and we'd love for anyone inspired by these conversations to start them wherever they are! Get in touch, we'd love to support.
@Philip_Edgcumbe
@Andercot
We definitely agree with the analogy! Two responses about scale:
(1) Our focus on intimate and multifaceted conversations seems critical. And some of the magic may come from the density of people in the San Francisco area. The magic of place sometimes can't be scaled!
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@TheAISalonSF
format:
Weekly discussions of 8-12 participants on a central theme.
Every few weeks: Larger gatherings of 50-100 people, breaking into small discussions, proposing new topics, identifying new salon hosts.
Follow our calendar here:
@accelerate_sf
is an upcoming hackathon dedicated to solving problems within the city of San Francisco using technologies of today.
Excited to partner with
@GenAICollective
to identify problems and solutions that the builders can go tackle!
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AI is poised to transform every sphere of human creativity and commerce, and challenge the very concepts of person-hood.
Like those Enlightenment-era thinkers, we stand at the precipice of a re-imagining of how social institutions might function in the future at every level.