Birds of a Feather Dinners
Attendee-led dinners on Sunday, October 27th, 2024.
Open to all Wisdom & AI Summit attendees!
Our Birds of a Feather dinners are created for you to connect as a community!
On Sunday evening, we encourage our conference attendees to host dinner parties for other attendees to explore a topic that is most alive and engaging for you. These dinners are aimed at engaging with your fellow attendees in conversation while cultivating connection and community at the Wisdom & AI Summit.
Interested in attending a Birds of a Feather dinner?
These dinners will be hosted at various restaurants in the San Francisco area. Please see them below and click the “Sign Up Here!” button for details like the theme, specific time, and location information.
All dinners are on Sunday, October 27th, 2024.
Sign up to attend a dinner by adding your name and contact information on the open-access Google Docs linked below.
Your dinner host will be responsible for communicating any changes/updates to those who have signed up. If you have specific questions about the dinner, please reach out to the host directly - these are fully attendee-led events!
Please do not share these sign-up sheets with those who are not attending the Wisdom & AI Summit. These events are exclusively available for registered attendees.
All attendees are responsible for paying for their meals — hosts do not cover the costs, nor does Wisdom 2.0.
Sign up below!
These dinners are still OPEN! We encourage you to sign up for one that interests you.
AI and Empathy
What is empathy when AI's don't really feel? What are the important use cases for "empathetic" AIs? What is important to empathy ... words, sound, visuals? What cues can AIs use in order to manifest empathy? Perhaps visit Testing the Depths of AI Empathy: Q3 2024 Benchmarks before the dinner.
Synchronizing Nature, Time and Economics: AI in Collective Mindfulness
During this dinner, we’ll have a thoughtful conversation about how AI and mindfulness can support individuals in refocusing their attention amidst the distractions of modern life, by fostering a reconnection with nature and the flow of time. Together, we’ll explore how AI might help us tune into bodily sensations, enhancing our present-moment awareness and aligning our attention with the natural world’s rhythms. We’ll also consider how AI might foster collective mindfulness, potentially enhancing group synergy and well-being.
Spirituality & AI
The rise of AI is occurring at the same time spirituality is growing increasingly untethered from traditional institutions. This opens so many interesting possibilities and questions ranging from the nature of consciousness and what it means to be human to how AI can support spiritual practices and holistic living.
Join us for an engaging conversation and wonderful dinner around these questions and all of your own!
The hosts - Amanda and Jonathan - are experienced practitioners of a variety of contemplative spiritualities and have engaged AI both from the technical side and in spiritual practice.
Smart Fork, Smart Talk
Smart Fork, Smart Talk is an intimate dinner gathering where innovators explore the intersection of AI, wearables, and food. Guests savor a multi-course meal reflecting advancements in nutrition technology while discussing personalized nutrition, wearable wellness tracking, and AI-driven food experiences, making it a delicious celebration of tech and taste.
AI & Climate Change
I was inspired at last year's Wisdom & AI Summit by Diego Saez-Gil's presentation "AI and The Environmental Crisis: Addressing Climate with AI". The intersection of AI and climate change is multifaceted. One the one hand, many are worried about AI causing increased emissions due the rapidly growing demand for electricity. On the other hand, Diego and many others are working on amazing ways to use AI to help us create climate change solutions.
Please come prepared to share your ideas, concerns and hopes about how best to navigate this rapidly emerging landscape of possibilities.
Ethical Sales, Diverse Leadership, Sustainable Development
The dinner will serve as a collaborative space to explore the Boardroom Dominatrix approach to revenue growth—a bold, unapologetic strategy that harnesses power dynamics, consent, and clear boundaries to generate results. This approach draws on the dominatrix ethos of commanding the room with confidence, clarity, and intentional control, aligning business strategies with ethical and human-centric values to drive transformative outcomes. AI serves as a powerful tool in executing this vision, enabling deeper insights and more precise decision-making.
AI with Heart: Cultivating Self-Compassion in a Tech-Driven World
Join us for an intimate dinner as we explore how artificial intelligence can enhance human capabilities in the workplace while preserving psychological safety and job satisfaction. In a world where interactions with AI are becoming more frequent than those with other humans, we will discuss the potential risks, such as isolation and emotional disconnect, and how leaders can counter these by fostering emotional resilience. Together, we will examine how the brain responds to AI-driven changes and how companies can cultivate environments that prioritize both innovation and human well-being. Additionally, we’ll address the need for robust AI ethics policies that ensure fairness, transparency, and the protection of human dignity.
Through dynamic conversation and thoughtful reflection, this dinner will challenge us to rethink the relationship between AI and the human experience in the workplace, encouraging a future where technology and humanity thrive together.
AI, Mental Health, and Future of Work
How do we create work environments where AI enhances human capabilities whole preserving psychological safety and job satisfaction? What are the risks associated with humans interacting with AI much more than other humans? How does the brain respond to AI-driven changes in the workplace, and what can leaders fo to foster emotional resilience? What AI ethics policies need to be introduced or improved?