AI Salon BLR: Public Intelligence
Join a 3‑hour inter‑disciplinary salon exploring how AI reshapes public intelligence: formal and informal, recognized or hidden. Who is “the public”? Whose insights matter, and where can AI amplify collective wisdom? We’ll examine roles: creators, custodians, users; benefits for human flourishing, risks of exclusion and failure, and how to design a “public commons” for accessible intelligence. Ideal for leaders, technologists, policymakers, educators, and civic advocates.
AI can amplify public reasoning, expand inclusivity, and enrich civic engagement; or it can diminish trust, strengthen surveillance, fragment the public sphere, and entrench existing power asymmetries.
The challenge for public intelligence is in designing transparently governed, inclusive AI‑augmented commons; with human oversight, auditability, adaptability, and equitable infrastructure, before exponential pace dilutes agency and accountability.
Read our substack of previous events related to this topic:
Please arrive on time. We will close the doors 15 minutes after start to ensure the conversations can flow smoothly.
⚠️ There will be light snacks at this event, but if you’d like to please bring along your own snacks and beverages.
Please be advised: Attendance will be limited and we expect significantly more demand than we can accommodate. Acceptance will be determined based on your interest in this topic and the quality of your responses to the registration questions.
If you've been accepted, we've selected you because we believe that you can contribute something valuable to the conversation. Please make sure you do attend the event, and if you're unable to, please mark yourself as not attending so that we can accept someone else from the waitlist. If you don’t attend but are still marked going, that will impact our consideration for future salons
About the Ai Salon
The AI Salon is a global community founded in San Francisco focused on intimate, small-sized group discussions on the sociological, economic, cultural, and philosophical impacts and meaning of AI developments. We host small group discussions and symposiums, all of which you can find on our calendar. You can find summaries of our previous conversations on our substack.