Introduction

From my side, I want to get a little more theoretical, kind of like share some of the what you can expect as a member of this community and how we'll share some of the space here.

So as Stefano talked about, practical application is going to be huge. We're going to do technical demos. We'll do practical demos and we'll have a theoretical talk.

The Importance of AI and Community

So what I'm going to do is cover a little bit of the theory of why I was excited about leveraging this space to build a community around AI usage.

We will definitely, outside of this space is where a lot of the hardcore, your hardcore skill building and practice will take place. So 100% encourage you, get in the MindStone app, start interacting with some of the content and then I'm here for you.

and you know whether it's you or your team or your organization if ai is something that you want to dive deeper on we got you uh so but we're gonna back up a little bit and talk a little bit about theory that's what i think about this topic for me what ai really represents is is the future of work so how many of you have at one point felt scared about what ai is going to mean for your work all right a lot of us a lot of us right so I want to kind of create a vision for us to maybe wrap our heads around and create some momentum for using the tools and actually embrace it.

Embracing AI in Everyday Life

Just a quick show of hands. Who right now would say you are using AI every day? OK, good.

Hopefully, as this room fills up, that would stay the same. But for me, one of the things that creates a burden for me is I believe everybody should be using GPT. I think everybody should be using GPT every day.

And the reason being is particularly in a city like Atlanta and in a room like this one, I think we need people who care. to be shaping how we use these tools. I think we need people who are adept at leadership to be thinking about how we use these tools, getting very practical, but then also how we encourage others to use these tools and make it okay to use AI across our organization. And then as things become more technical and as things become more digital, what I love about the opportunity to have this space is that we actually get a chance to build what's real in a world of illusions.

AI's Impact on Creative Content

How many of you have seen, we were here for night school last week and someone showed us these full on Instagram and TikTok videos of black women creators that were 100% AI generated. How many of you have been seeing that type of content?

How many of you have asked someone on your team or maybe a collaborator to complete something and they send you back a document or they send you an email and you look at it and you like, yeah, this was GPT. How does it feel when when you receive something? This was clearly some GPT.

they don't have the time to give you the answer, so they give you the abbreviated answer and GPT fills in the blanks for them. So it's almost like, I don't wanna call it rude, but I wanna call it thoughtless.

Yeah, and that's a little bit about how it comes out.

So imagine if you're a client, or if you're a people leader and you've entrusted a human with a task, right?

Navigating AI Challenges

We're gonna assume the best about people, but as we all navigate this world of trying to figure out how AI can help us, we're gonna make mistakes, right? We're gonna make people feel like we just didn't have the time, like we didn't put enough thought into it. And we're often gonna be made to feel that way.

But hopefully as we can be in a room like this and we can build some confidence, we can share some success stories, we can share some failures, we can actually grab a hold of what's real as we build our confidence and as we build our competency to go out and leverage AI to bring about this new future.

So, again, you know, AI is everywhere but human presence is not. I think there's a bit of human brilliance in everyone in this room and what I found in my recent years using AI is it's a lot easier to pick up the tool and engage it than it is to remember what I'm actually good at before I jumped into those platforms.

Maintaining Human Connection

So maybe in this space, we can kind of help one another reconnect with our humanity and say, hey, look, maybe you're not the guy that's going to write a rough draft or a cinematic you know, treatment for a movie. But if you're the real estate guy and you've already got this logistics organizer mind, dude, focus on that. You don't have to become something that you're not in order to use these tools and move forward.

And again, it's not about, the tools themselves. Hopefully, when we gather into this room, everyone can feel like your humanity has been drawn out a lot. You've been prompted to think a little more critically about how you use things. Your imagination has been expanded and broadened.

I remember listening to There was a friend of mine, I was in Chicago for some design work, and I said, you know, a lot of my friends and folks that I respect are just going on and on about AI. And I remember saying to my buddy Justin, I said, hey, man, like, just...

Talk to me. Tell me why I should care. Like, put AI in context for me. Right. Because I'm just I'm just not I'm not I'm not sold.

So he told me he said, OK, Marcus, if if I ask you right now, if you if you went into GPT and you said write a write a business plan and the voice of Adam Levine. It's going to give you something very readable, something very comprehensive, something very do-with-able. However, if you ask that same tool to write a business plan in the voice of Jay-Z, it's going to give you some gobbledygook. And I was like, wow, you understood the assignment. I bought in.

For those who don't know, the difference between those two musicians is one is actually very successful and incredible in business, that being Jay-Z. He's a rapper. He's an African-American, things like that. Whereas Adam Levine, he's an incredible musician, but hadn't really done as much business-wise.

And for me, where that registered, it created a burden for me. It meant that, oh, as we think about how these tools are being designed and how these tools are being used, there are things like bias that we have to think about. And for me in that moment, I said, well, as an African-American who was raised in the tradition of Jay-Z, I think I need to be using this tool, if for nothing else, than to be able to give a new perspective, to contribute to the greater training of these tools so that people like me can feel heard and understood when I use these platforms. And then I told it not to train on my data.

We do that. So we're not here to marvel at the machines. We're here to make meaning in their midst. That's basically what I'm trying to say.

Brighton and Chelsea's Mission

So moving forward a little bit, talking a little bit about Brighton and Chelsea and why we're here and why this matters so much. At Brighton and Chelsea, we're a culture-forward innovation studio. So we use innovation tools to accomplish creative ends. We're building strategy and community at the edge of what's next. We're serving cities, creators, and the common good. So that's Brighton and Chelsea.

I'm the founder. CEO there, my buddy Blair is back there. He's our managing partner. So you can expect these types of things from us.

That's why we're so excited about MindStone. MindStone is the world's largest practical AI learning community. If you join that app and you get in there, you will be in community with 20,000 people across the globe.

I was showing someone earlier my WhatsApp. And just the information and the things that I have, the messages that I have to copy from there and then put back into a GPT to help me understand and keep up to date in real time is pretty phenomenal. But I'm grateful for MindStone for giving me access to this broader community and also you. It's global, there's a lot of good tools in there, so shout out to MindStone and what MindStone has built and what they're giving us access to as a community here in Atlanta.

Stefano, before I move on from this, anything else about MindStone I should throw out there? Anything else I should mention? Okay, sweet.

You can engage it on the desktop. You can engage it on your phone. Please, please download the app. It's really going to make your time and your investment coming out here so much more worth it. So our intent is upskilling platform and community.

Upskilling and Community Engagement

So when we talk about upskilling, we want to help you. We use this time to help you learn tools that save time and elevate your craft we talk about platforming we want to highlight some of your voices right as community members and builders some of you i invited here personally because i felt like you knew more about ai than me and if you're sitting in your seat right now and that's how you feel and that's what you're thinking great come up after this and you can be a presenter next month

And then community. What we want to do is be able to develop key relationships to make Atlanta this city.

Shout out to everybody listening to us online, but we like where we're at. We like where we're from. We want to make Atlanta the premier city for AI, right?

We've done that in music. We've done that in civil rights and things like that. Got a little bit to work on in basketball and football.

but I think we can do it with AI. And I believe this group is the groups can help us do that.

Building a Community for AI

So I had a chance on Friday to go over to a meetup for entrepreneurs at Praxis Labs. Anybody familiar with Praxis Labs?

Tight, tight. So that's a wonderful resource. And one of the first pages on that, they talk about community.

And I just thought this was so captivating, because it's probably one of the things that matter the most to me, is that there has never been a more pressing time for neighborly community in a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence. What I love about the aspect of community when it comes to AI is that it enables us to build the courage to try things and to fail, right?

Who's using AI right now in your work and you're scared to let your boss know? Do y'all be hiding the fact that you use AI?

All right, cool. Yeah, great. It's on and popping, yeah.

But how many of you have tried something new in AI in the last week? okay so it's like a little bit of 50 50 so it seems like as a community we've moved past being embarrassed or scared about our ai usage but maybe we're not trying new things and so that's one thing i'm gonna maybe i'll bring that up next month we'll keep paying attention to that metric who tried something new and and hopefully this community can be a safe place for us to to keep pushing the bounds and the edges of our capabilities because this the technology and the tools

Creating Safe Spaces for Innovation

I mean, I'm looking down at my watch right now, and there's messages about new things, mergers, sales, all these types of things that are changing the landscape. And if we can build safety to continue to try things, we'll be in good shape.

So it's not just about networks. So this is not a networking event. I want to encourage you to think about that.

It's not just about sort of the messages that we send to the business that we try to do after this. We really want to build some human discernment for the people that we connect with and the projects that we take on. And it's not just about getting affirmation for what we do and the work that we put into the world.

Hopefully there can be a little bit of love in what we create and the people that we collaborate with technology has such a propensity uh to create space and opportunity for us to dehumanize ourselves as well as dehumanizing those uh that we that we bring into our collaborative spaces we've heard many many times that now with ai coming out

the average workload for workers is increasing by at least like two and a half percent. Expectations are going up, right? Companies are letting go of employees and they're expecting more.

So for me, very early on, I was scared to show that I was using AI because I didn't want people to know that it the real time it was taking me to do things, right? Not because I was trying to be nefarious, but I understood that the more I produced those results, the more I was gonna be expected to do it, and it was gonna bring up pay negotiation things, then long story short, I'm running my own company.

Human-Centered AI Design

So a proposal of theory. I had the opportunity a couple months ago to lead an AI and human centered design workshop for the St.

Opus College of Business in St. Paul.

And you guys got a couple people familiar with that era. Love Minnesota, Minneapolis. They're doing some great things out there.

And George laid out this quote. He said, AI itself is not preordained. We will shape it by the decisions we make day in and day out.

And so there's one thing I want to impress upon us.

There's not these people who are sitting in a room somewhere. AI has not fallen from the sky. and said, here it is, this is what it's gonna be, the bounds of it are already created and defined.

No, no, we're gonna create it, right, by what we get in these tools and what we build, by having the courage to bring our unique perspective to it, by being aware of what's happening, bringing it into our teams, bringing it into our organizations, pushing the bounds of our own I mean, we got a Grammy winning artist sitting right here in our midst. And I mean, these things have a, they're gonna have an impact on how we create, right?

It's a couple of producers in the room. So George was one of the, he was the AI expert in the session I was facilitating. He dropped this quote, but then one thing happened in the room that I'll never forget.

And it was every instructor at this graduate school of business realized that their role as educators has completely changed. No longer are educators going to be sort of these take on this sage on the stage role, right? Because AI is way smarter than you. It can teach it way faster.

But what these instructors kind of came into is that with AI, they now have the opportunity to be whole people developers. no longer and it was such a beautiful thing to watch these educators sort of grapple with like people aren't gonna your students are gonna come to you for information anymore they're gonna come to you to figure out how to be a better person they're gonna come to you for things like ethics morals things like that and that's gonna shape how they plug into the tools so anyway um

the more we engage these things, the more we critically think about how it impacts our work and those we serve, the more we're going to shape what AI actually is.

Redemptive Intelligence

So I want to kind of promote this vision of redemptive intelligence. And I want us to take this as business leaders, as community leaders, and as creative individuals. And maybe this is a way, this is a proposal, right?

I don't want to force this on you. Maybe this is a way we can think about how we're going to spend our time, how we're going to explore, how we're going to develop these tools. maybe we can think about using these tools to serve others, to renew culture, and to tell the truth.

We just did, last week we did an event on misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation, and we examined the previous presidential election and how those things may or may not have had an impact on what we saw happen. But for those of us in this room, we can kind of equip ourselves and our communities to do that, right?

We don't just want to be efficient, right? Technology, again, it has this propensity to make efficiency king right and that's when we start seeing layoffs that's when we start seeing burnout that's when we start seeing greater expectation without training and human development we want to push back against that we actually want to see how can we make arguments

even though they may be false, like the LeBron James, Michael Jordan debate, how can we actually bring some beauty to that, right? How can we actually make, if these things can save us time, maybe as a people leader, can I be more sacrificial, right?

If I've just cut my work day down by at least three-fourths, can I take that extra time to go meet with someone and actually see what's going on with them and then maybe show them a tool that can get them on their way, right? And maybe that's one way we could think about things.

And also, we don't want to just think about things in terms of like what can scale, but what can be restorative. And when we think about the power for these tools to scale our organizations, maybe we can think about, well, what good does that create opportunity for me to do?

Balancing Efficiency and Human Value

I've seen AI produce great business results across many industries and shout out to that. Right.

Like we love we can't change the world. We can't make the world a better place if we ain't making no money. Right.

At the same time, we know that that's not the only way to measure success.

And technology, it's a particularly AI, right? It has no moral code, right? It only does what we tell it to do.

And those are some things that we could potentially wrestle with here. So just a couple ideas. I'm going to hit these really quickly. This is inspired by my friend Sharif.

Sharif's a regular over at Porch Coffee. Sorry to put you on the spot.

We play a lot of chess. We talk about AI and he introduced me to this term historiography. I've been practicing it and I think my enunciation has gotten a little bit better about that.

And as we had a conversation about the consequences of history, who writes it and how that might apply to technology is something that I would love to see explored in this space is if we can wrestle with the fact that every algorithm has an origin and history for the most part is written by those who have advantages or those who have sort of won more of the historical moments. So that's something we could wrestle with. And then maybe this notion that AI must account for what it erases and what it can redeem.

Practical Applications and Explorations

Again, we want to equip you practically to go and do these things in your work. We want to make you more, we really do want to help you in your work.

But as we think about this aspect of community, it gives us a little more to explore, more that we can get into as we're in this room.

Another idea for exploration is systems. Oh boy, am I a highly creative and relational person. And I, on Friday, heard something that I think might have changed my life, where a business leader said that a great way to think about systems is that it can save, you are saving yourself time, energy, money, and stress. And I thought to myself, wow, those are all things that I want to save. And so as a community, think about how to use these tools. We want to be able to get in here and think about how these machines can actually help us, how these machines can be beneficial and not just give us more busy work and things to do.

Another idea for exploration, we have a couple of musicians in the room. That's a little bit of my background. I'd love to use this space to explore creative expression, right?

And centering a little bit on keeping humans at the center, we know that machines can remix, right? But only people can intuit. Only humans have intuition, right? That deeper knowing that is inspired by our subconscious, that is inspired by our memories, that is inspired by the things and the people that we love. So how can we bring that into the space? and see how we can interact with these tools to make things better. And I love this notion of protecting what's sacred.

How many of you are familiar with this story? A couple people. Can I just call on somebody to just kind of give the headline on this? Would you want to do it? Yes. Tell us from what you understand what happened here.

okay so he's with this girlfriend you see the girl from fan and he looks back at it and you see of the other way or what we think you can't see it from here because it's only like voices cut off but i guess they've generated it into some type of anime on here but that's what the background is but it was a huge week so a lot of people would just like replace the look back at it for like Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's one, definitely one aspect of it. I'm going to give you a quick little round of applause for being on the spot and answering that.

Again, we're going to shape this space, right? We're not going to come and talk at you. We're going to interact in here. Thank you.

So that's one aspect of it, right? The look back at it meme is a huge, it was a huge internet sensation. And with AI tools, people have been reproducing it, bringing it to new contexts and so on and so forth.

But what really struck me about the visual style of this photo, how many of you are familiar with Studio Ghibli? right they make these incredible it's a japanese studio to make these incredible films that tap into the human condition it's a painstaking process to make these illustrations i mean some of the single frames take wild amounts of time to create a lot of love a lot of nostalgia a lot of original style went into creating the the films that come out of studio ghibli and in an instant People were able to generate these images using AI and they blew up all over the Internet and. I made a couple of them.

I did. I took a couple images of my kids and I put them in there and I went crazy on the family memories thing. I kept them to myself, though.

And the reason I never shared any of my Ghibli inspired images was because The creator, Hayao Miyazaki, he was devastated seeing this style that he had created used to create what many were calling internet slop. And so one of the things that we can get into in this room is how can we, it's awesome to be able to take a family photo and reinterpret it into the style of Japanese anime, bringing two things that I love together, my kids, and anime and making something that I could print and put up on my wall. If you've ever played chess with me, I have a photo of you. I also have turned you into a Ghibli image that I'm probably going to put up on the wall at my house. And that's awesome, right? But how can we leverage the technology to do what is fulfilling to us and honor the human that was created?

And if you work in creative industries or if you're a graphic designer, we have a sculptor here. I know one of the fears that come along with this is like, well, if I'm building a studio practice, what does the technology mean? If you're leading a team of creatives or if you are a designer, you're probably wondering, am I going to be replaced? Are people going to start having wild expectations of me? Are people going to be scraping my images and just making stuff? That's one thing we can wrestle with in this room and maybe send you back to your organization equipped to deal with that.

Developing Skills in an AI World

Another one is skill building. And honestly, this one's going to take the forefront. I really don't have to say that much about it.

We want to bring you in here. We want to actually help you develop some skills.

So in a world of instant everything, I want to tell you right now, mastery is going to be evolutionary. If you take... Thought I had it.

If you take your eyes off these tools for a bit and you kind of fall out of practice, like, they save so much time and the things you can do are so amazing, but it's moving so quickly that I think in order for us to, as a community, to realize that vision of making Atlanta the premier city for AI usage, we're gonna have to practice, right?

And so hopefully as we come into this room and more people fill these seats, we'll get more reasons and more opportunities to practice. So just a couple of things to think about and how we can make, bring this notion of sort of doing good or being redemptive, which is a key theme for the city of Atlanta.

We know that redemption run it cries out from the streets so just a couple ways to make that practical um in here is we want to maybe some safe spaces to start to practice is automate some of our administrative work so we can reclaim more of our creative work right maybe we can use use tools that give margin

and not necessarily mimicry. And so hopefully coming out of this room, this is a little bit of Marcus putting his spin on it, but maybe we could be profits of a better way, right? When we think about the future of work, we want to be equipped to do better work faster, more expansive, right?

But we also want to be, we want to enter into it with a little bit of courage and not just seeking convenience, right? We want to bring imagination, right?

If these tools can create drafts for us, if these tools can become in-house editors, how can they free up our imagination and keep us from settling for the lowest common denominator, which is just kind of imitating things online, and finding what our personal convictions are and not just leverage.

Automation and Sacred Aspects

So that's just a little bit of level setting, some theory for us to engage, some ways to think about how we can use the space and cultivate a community. I just wanted to ask before we wrap and help us shape what next month's gonna look like and what speakers we prioritize and what content and demos we bring, I'd love to ask you all, what is a part or some parts of your practice that you're ready to automate? And for you, what must remain sacred in your work?

So I don't need to check GPC at all really, I should. It's automated some of my tasks in music. I have a lot of administrative stuff that I haven't added and assisted that helps out with stuff. But he's telling me there's ways to automate some of the stuff I hand off to him.

So I have a couple to do things on my list that it's just annoying and I hate doing it. So I'm trying to figure out a way. I try to check, but I didn't get the best results. I gotta figure out how to use it better.

I think safety-wise, making music, I mean, You know, some friends of mine, there's amazing AI generating music tools. I may or may not have used them on some recordings. It's really good, but I think there's a manager of SZA and Punch, I mean a manager of SZA connected to the TV, an AR named Punch said on Twitter a couple weeks ago, after Lil Wayne's out, Please, they're trash. Which I kind of got to agree. They are trash.

I've been using them in a way that's like, it's not the whole music band. It's an assistant to the art that we already created. So yeah, that's kind of what I want to say. I love how practical, like there's some practical things I heard in that, sampling, keeping AI at bay through sampling, taking care of some of those administrative tasks so you can stick with the music.

Just out of curiosity for you, so, For you, Ace, you actually, you create music, you manage the process of the creation of music. On average, how much time would you say administrative tasks prior to AI may keep you from actually getting to the process of creating music? Probably too much. I mean, I have team members that help, but sometimes there's things you can't delegate, or even your delegation takes time to be administrative to hand off the administrative tasks. So I just want to, I would say probably like 35%. Yeah, so imagine having 35% of your week back to... you know, make the music that people love, right? Maybe we can get another two Grammys up in here, something like that. Sweet.

Any other folks from different industries? That's almost like a whole day of sleep. Have an extra day of writing or creating music. Just take a long walk in the park. Come up with a metaphor for a level of change. Like what Jordan had to do. Nice callback. Work on your jump shot a little bit.

I think we have one here. Hey, so I create programs for my job and I train. And one of the things that is a little bit more routine is orientation. So if I could create... I want to say the videos versus me saying it and physically being there, but still more of the personable aspect to it. So I also create training courses. So within the training course, to have that AI. I know I've been looking into things like that so that it can kind of facilitate for me, because I have other projects that I need to work on, versus repeating orientation over and over again for an organization. I think that that will buy me back a lot of time. I don't want it to look fake, but I also want it to have a human experience, but it also needs to copy back time in a way. So, yeah. Yeah, thank you. Any others?

Doing music. I manage an artist, and one of the things that we kind of, he's been using chat GPT on his own personal aspect of it. And something he said to me, he said, you know, I use it to just tell personal things about my life so I can better myself. And I'm like, damn. I said, I ought to try it too. So I turned chat GPT into my therapist. So I've got a project for that. And so that literally asked me questions, and it's really helped me do a deep dive into myself. Because I've already been doing shadow work, but that kind of took it to the next level because you can think about it, but you don't know how to answer yourself the right way unless it's coming from something outside of yourself.

But the way that I've been using it, or we've been using it together, me more so, is we were sitting down having a brainstorm session one night, and as we were talking, it just hit me. I said, listen, let me create a team. I said, and I went in there and I said, you know, I said, what are the aspects of management? Because as I manage him, I want to know what are different aspects of management that I can kind of push off and automate before we even get started. Because my brother right here is the one that's like, he automated his life. And I'm like, I want to be like that one day. And so when... Literally, I broke it down and it gave me like five different team members, gave me five different aspects. We literally coordinate and talk and I send different projects to them and I guess the next step for me is finding out what platforms I can automate using ChatGPT to focus on not just the branding aspect but the marketing aspect as well as just other tasks that managers would have to do and just push off as much of that into the AI atmosphere. And so that's what I've been using it for as of late and it's just, it's my own because it's like no end. It's like if you can think it, it really will create it for you and then you just have to fine tune it.

absolutely no thanks for sharing i think we might have found at least two speakers for our uh net for our next couple meetups um little looser rails this is about all the content that we have for you they want to make some time for you over monday night eat some pizza mix it up with other other folks in the room but are there any other sort of like burning curiosities or things out there that you would want from a community solely focused on ai so we got we got two folks here

So I do phone distribution, and that means a lot of things, right? Accounting, label, marketing, production, and I've been finding that agents, right? Like if I talk to my marketing agent, and then I talk to my team who does marketing, I come very prepared to that meeting, because I get a lot of different data points from different meetings, and I have to debrief everybody about what that meeting was about. So agents really help me

And then what can the agent do with what type of AI, right? Is it email writing? Is it budgets? Is it a debt that we need to present? And agents, and having that conversation on how to prompt it, it's kind of hard to question how much you give it, because it's my data point, but also the data point of who is actually leading that. And they could lead, right?

They could be with me for six months, their contract would work, and then the AI is built off of that. And then somebody else comes in and it can be a different conversation. So just having an agent is kind of a safety net, but then not losing yourself with it as well.

Yeah, absolutely. That's a good one. That's a good one. Any others?

Community Needs and Future Prospects

Oh, we got two more here. Right here. Right here in front of you. OK.

In regards to community, I know one thing that I struggle with is that there are like tens of thousands of tools being created. And I actually found this site is like an AI tool directory. And I'm trying to go through this tool directory. And it's so many convoluted, maybe low-tier applications out here, and it becomes frustrating trying to navigate and figure out what to use. And then there's a part of that, so having a space where we can dive into tools that are of a certain quality would be helpful.

And then two, This transition from prompting AI to moving into AI automation with agents, I think that transition is happening, but what tools can be used to really perform an automated task all the way through? Because we're talking about in theory and check and only. deliver what you prompt. But it's not going in while I'm sleeping. At least from how I'm using it, it's not going in and working out on its own. So I would like to have some things that I know can automate and actually perform real tasks from point A to point Z. And what are those platforms? So that would be helpful to actually know the tools.

Yeah, and I appreciate you teasing out that difference between a custom GPT and an agent. Something like GPT, you can wax poetic, but it's going to do what you told it to do, whereas an agent can actually go out and complete tasks and do things that maybe you didn't originally ask it to do.

So I think we had one more here.

Ethical and Philosophical Considerations

Thank you for this, Marcus, first of all. I would like to hear more about the ethical, philosophical, and you were kinda starting to lay some of that groundwork, almost a fishbowl or think tank where we have you and a handful of other folks. I'm so curious about what this means for society and particularly living on the west side.

where we told the kids in my neighborhood for 10 years to become coders. And so they've been taking coding camps and going to school for coding. And from what I'm reading, coding is going to be fairly obsolete in the next two years.

I hear you laughing, Ace. It just makes me so sad. So I like your kind of philosophical underpinnings of what does this mean for culture? How do you think about it theologically, philosophically?

And then, you know, I run a small company now and I'm thinking about the implications for my team. Like, we aren't going to need as many people. And so, like, what does that look like to make sure they have soft landings? And, you know, all the implications from a philosophical, what does it mean to love your neighbor, you know, as you engage with this stuff?

So I appreciate the groundwork you laid and some of the opportunities there, and just would love to have two, three sessions on how do we navigate this kind of brave new world? It sounds like the Industrial Revolution on steroids, and we ended up with prohibition because we love leading our culture out of that, you know, and so... It's no longer kind of what you do that's going to define your culture, but what does it mean to be human?

I hear tech is putting chips in brains already, and they can detect human brainwaves. I'm not trying to freak anyone out, but some dystopia is on the rise, and so I want to talk more about that.

Yeah, no, great. Thank you. And we'll have a slot for that again in those theoretical talks and what you guys bring into the room and the community members that we bring in.

We'll be able to go as far and expansive on that as you want to. And I think that... You bringing it up is very practical, right?

Because as we think about bringing AI, again, into our work, and we're going to have these discussions, we're going to tease it all out in this room, but again, what we want you to do is leave this room and actually put it into your work, actually bring it into your organization, and we're here to help you do that. At the same time, in years of doing this, what we have found is that the technology works.

It's great, but it does start to surface a lot of uncertainty either articulated human issues that were already there, it exacerbates them, or it brings to the front new ones.

And we can certainly talk about how to keep that in mind as we explore these tools.

Conclusion

Well, that's our time. We don't wanna keep you too long.

Again, we're soft launching this community. I love the vision that Stefano laid for how New York grew with a room of about this size.

I think about 30 or 40 is what we've been seeing across GOs. And then they grow to hundreds of people. coming out monthly for these things.

So we already have our next three events sort of calendared up. We'll push that out to you. We'll make sure you know that.

If you're not in the app, come find us. But what we're gonna do now, if there aren't any other questions, we're gonna invite you to just come on out this door, go over to Monday night with us, have some pizza, and let's just keep talking about what we can make this space and what you need from it.

Thank You and Next Steps

Stefano, before we wrap it up, you got anything? Anything you want to add? Any grievances good of the order type of thing? No, no, no.

The last thing is that. Hungry people and pizzas.

Awesome. Well, really quickly, I want to say thank you to Plywood for allowing us to use this space.

If you're looking for a co-working space of social impact and building community around doing good and work, if that's your jam, check out Plywood Place. Next, I want to give a thank you.

Again, Stefano, thank you so much for flying over here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

It means a lot that you would come on in from London and help us get our community up and running. And you're going to see a lot more of me and a host of other community members as we move forward. But Stefano came in to make sure that we got a good, solid base to get things going.

So thank you, Stefano, and thank you for the team at MindStone. And thank you to y'all for coming out. So let's go eat some pizza.