Working with such a divergent group of experts and enthusiasts has meant that throughout the day people are holding up a variety of lenses to the subject of AI, from creative futurism, to philosophy, to absurdism, to ethics. The vocabularies are wide ranging, and the invented vocabularies even more so (...cottage accelerationism, metempsychosis, polyoculars, patalanguage…). Facilitating these enthused, energetic and deeply important discussions has without a doubt required a peaceful, hidden away landscape to contain them.
The team
Warren is an comic book writer, a novelist, a screenwriter and fascinating font of knowledge.
Matt *is* a start up accelerator for IoT, a speaker and a book writer - a man with eclectic ideas on bots.
Cyborg anthropologist, and speaker on the topic. Purveyor of facts and proposals with great energy.
Kate Devlin is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, and a computer scientist specialising in Artificial intelligence and Human–computer interaction (HCI).
Mobile/IoT/AI/bot designer, founder of Big Medium, speaker and writer. General spreader of positivity. Also a silo demolisher.
Head of Design for IBM’s travel & transportation industry.He teaches, speaks about, and evangelizes on design internationally.
Insatiably curious UX designer with mad-scientist ingenuity.
Serves humanity by making better social systems & evocative shared experiences. Chairman of the fascinating Goinvo
As known from BBC Click on the World Service. Good egg and an eye for Norwegian trolls, waiting for a drone to get caught in his hair.
Designs digital products, and the teams that make them. Teaches contemporary skills for digital designers. Also a speaker and writer. Listen to him on ethics.
Passionate about building a better tomorrow in the creative industries. Speaker, mentor, writer, advisor.
Director of generative design in Nike’s Innovation Department.
Also builds modular synthesizers. Killed by a replicant earlier today.
Technology, systems and people. Silo demolisher. AI absurdist. Neural-netting. Newsletterist.
Experience designer and product designer. VUI and bots. Retro-nouns.
Patadata. Wooden flute. Futurescouts.co.
Has a lovely website that talks to you, but is also working on Google Lens.
One of the founders of Clearleft. AI curious. Retreat Visionary. Speaker on design matters.
Collaboration. Facilitation. Documentation. Puppeteer and robot enthusiast.
Voice UI. UX. Product Strategy.
Photographer, documentation. Visualiser.
Of course, we recognise that any particular group, being such a small group, will come at the subject with a particular angle. Bias is something we need to tackle in AI. But this is a small, small way of contributing to the great task of progressing the way we think about such an amorphous subject. The work we do does result in an output that reflects our positions, but the aim is to ‘get doing’ and promote thinking while making in any way we can. The principles of open space discussions apply: "What happens is the only thing that could have happened", "Whoever comes are the right people".