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This is the opening night event for #AIWeekNY! We will be discussing AI, ethics & culture in a salon format, inspired by Romany Marie.
In the 1910s-30s, Romany Marie ran a series of cafs that became the heart of Village bohemianism. Her tables hosted everyone from Buckminster Fuller & Edna St. Vincent Millay to John Sloan & Eugene O'Neill: a mix of painters, poets, architects, & people who thought of new alternative ways of thinking. Romany Marie believed that ideas mattered more than credentials, & the collision of perspectives generated cultural innovations.
On Monday October 6th, we're reviving that tradition. As artificial intelligence reshapes every dimension of human experience, we need spaces & events where technologists meet artists, where founders debate with philosophers, & where investors listen to academics. Just humans grappling together with the hardest questions of our time:
How do we build AI that reflects our values when we can barely agree what those values are?
What does creativity mean when machines can generate art?
Who profits from intelligence (artificial or human), & who bears the cost?
How do we preserve human agency in systems designed to predict & influence us?
This event is designed to be a free-flowing conversation salon in the Romany Marie tradition:
No formal presentations, just discussions & dialogue
Mix freely between artists challenging AI's creative claims, founders building ethical frameworks, investors betting on the future, & academics studying the implications
Drink specials at the bar
Limited capacity to preserve the intimate, generative atmosphere that made Marie's salons legendary.
You should come if you're:
Building AI systems & questioning your choices
Creating art & wondering about your medium's future
Funding technology & thinking beyond short term returns
Studying these shifts & craving real-world context
Simply curious & thoughtfully concerned
Come ready to listen as much as speak.
Hosted By
This salon is hosted by Ambistream, a social TV platform designing AI-native media formats for a more ethical digital future. We're building infrastructure for how content gets created, remixed, & monetized, with licensing systems that actually pay creators fairly, privacy frameworks that respect users, & compliance tools built for a fragmented regulatory landscape. We think the future of media needs to be built differently from the ground up, which is why we're gathering people who are asking hard questions about AI's role in culture, creativity, & commerce.
This event is part of #AIWeekNY by Pulse NYC - a community-led festival celebrating innovation across the AI ecosystem. More at https://pulse.nyc/ai-week/
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