AI
Philosophy
Nights
A monthly gathering · San Francisco
Communal sense-making at the frontier of technology and human experience. One fireside conversation, a room full of people willing to think.
The Room
Inside the Nights
Next Night · San Francisco
Giving a Damn in the Age of Indifferent Intelligence
The Night
An evening built for thinking together
Each session, host Banu Kellner sits down for a fireside chat with a leading philosopher, historian, technologist, or social scientist. Then the room takes over. Fireside chat is the food for thought, our main activity is small group conversations between the participants.
Arrive, meet the room. Founders, AI researchers, technologists, writers, artists, skeptics. The mix is the point.
An unhurried conversation between Banu and the evening's guest.
Best part of the night: small circles of strangers thinking out loud together.
The threads come back together. What did we see that we couldn't see alone?
Past Conversations
Full recordings, unhurried and uncut
Every Night becomes an episode: on YouTube, in podcast apps, and as essays and transcripts on AI Philosophy Notes.
The Invention of Tomorrow
The past isn't a fixed record we discover. It's a story we keep re-writing to understand where we're going. On narrative, collective identity, and what AI does to human belonging.
Watch on YouTube →sponsored by Imbue
The Post-Productive Human
The historical deal of capitalism, that labor entitles us to a share of power and survival, is dissolving. As AI decouples wealth from human effort, what fills the vacuum? On power, agency, and meaning after productivity.
Watch on YouTube →sponsored by Imbue
Embodied Intelligence
What does it mean that we have bodies, and that AI, through world models, is beginning to acquire something like bodily perception? On the forms of intelligence that never pass through language.
Watch on YouTube →sponsored by Imbue
The Host
Banu Kellner
Banu is an executive coach with 17 years of private, transformational work with leaders. Today, she coaches founders in AI and other frontier technologies. Her mission: helping the people building the future do it with wisdom, integrity, and a steady center.
She is the author of the Superhumanist Manifesto and founder of the SuperHuman Society, championing a future where technology expands human dignity, capability, and connection.
Learn more →"The people building the future should be the ones asking the deepest questions about it."
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Each Night gathers ~100 founders, researchers, and builders for an evening of real thinking, with hundreds more on the waitlist. Presenting sponsors receive title billing, on-stage time, and a place in the conversation, not just a logo on a slide.
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