Divination, Prediction and AI

Can AI hallucinate meaning for us? Can AI reveal hidden patterns and predict our future?

Join us for an informal conversation exploring intersections between divination practices and pattern recognition in emerging technologies. We will explore what we can learn from divination practices when we think about predictive patterns in AI models. We’ll look at divination as a practice to seek knowledge and witness prediction patterns that can relate to building future generative AI models. We have a stellar panel of thought leaders: an AI expert exploring prediction patterns, an artist working with custom trained AI intuition mapping models and a Google DeepMind research scientist looking into divination practices. And yes. We also have a tarot reader. We will be showing visuals by Los Angeles-based artist Connie Bakshi.

An informal conversation, facilitated by HUWD founder Anna Gerber, between:

Kevin Walker, AI Researcher

Kevin is a researcher and developer working across anthropology, technical development, and the arts. He has worked with companies, studios, and cultural institutions, and created award-winning commissions and exhibitions. Kevin runs an AI research group at Coventry University and is co-founder of startup Philosophy Machines, building new technologies and working with a wide range of collaborators. Previously he led and taught in Masters programs at the Royal College of Art, University of the Arts London, and University College London. He writes a newsletter on art and technology: increasinglyunclear.world

Bel Senlle, Tarot Reader

Bel is an Argentinian artist and tarot reader. Bel’s work focuses on making the invisible visible, using different mediums to explore the intersectionality between art and ritual, visual magic and interpretation. Claridad, Bel’s first tarot deck, was published in 2023 by Watkins and distributed by Penguin Random House. She is a resident practitioner and teacher at She's Lost Control & Bless Stories.

Beccy Mccray, Artist and Researcher

Beccy is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher working at the intersection of art, climate storytelling and social practice. Her work challenges dominant systems through acts of radical softness, ecological connection and collective imagination - spanning speculative technologies, participatory rituals, immersive installations and multi-species collaboration. She has partnered with institutions including RBG Kew, Greenpeace, the V&A Museum and Frequency Festival of Digital Culture, and has been supported by residencies with the British Council, King’s College London and New Forest National Park.

Alexander Vezhnevets, Google DeepMind Research Scientist

Alexander is an AI research scientist and a meditator, currently working as staff research scientist at Google DeepMind. Throughout his career, Alexander has worked on computer vision, hierarchical reinforcement learning, multi-agent reinforcement learning and generative agent based modelling. Alexander’s current interests are multi-agent systems, social cognition, computational social construction and cultural evolution. He is also a meditator and a contemporary Vajrayana practitioner.

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Hosted by Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

At Reference.Point

July 14 2025

Doors open at 7pm

Panel starts at 7.30pm

Drinks and DJ until 11pm