Intelligence: Relational, Spiritual and Artificial

Intelligence: Relational, Spiritual and Artificial

Hosted by Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming

Doors open at 7pm

Panel starts at 7.30pm

Drinks and DJ until 11pm

Today, it seems all we read, hear, reflect on is artificial intelligence, and yet other intelligences—relational, ecological, spiritual—shape our lives just as deeply. What happens when we consider them together?

Join us for an evening of conversation exploring the many dimensions of relationships developing in our lives—human, non-human, and machine. We’ll explore how our non-verbal relationship to the  natural world shapes our emotional  and inner landscapes. We’ll reflect on our quick, uncanny ability to form relationships with large language models—why they feel real, the potential danger they represent, the reverence we seek and what that reveals about us.

Together, we’ll explore intelligence as something shared: between people, with the natural world, through spiritual practice and in dialogue with emerging AI.

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

• Bethany Koby, CEO and Chief Vision Officer, Fam Studio 

Bethany Koby is the co-founder and Chief Vision Officer of Fam Studio, a trailblazing research and design consultancy developing play-led technologies, learning programs, and planet-friendly experiences into powerful tools for positive change. Through the lens of design innovation and future thinking, Fam Studio envisions a world where every family can thrive in uncertainty, no matter their location. Their global influence touches lives from Africa and the Middle East to the United States and Europe, with a broad expertise spanning early childhood to adolescence and beyond. Previously, Bethany co-founded and served as CEO of the award-winning edTech company Tech Will Save Us. 

• Lars Buesing, AI Scientist

Lars is an AI researcher specialising in reinforcement learning, planning and structured knowledge representations. Recently, he has been interested in developing AI tools that collaborate with and not replace humans.

• Eileen Hall, Artist and Activist 

Eileen is an Ecuadorian-Scottish artist, activist, creative director, and explorer, working at the intersection of arts, architecture, nature conservation, and systems change. Carrying forward her father’s Tayos Caves treasure legacy, she collaborates with the Shuar and other Amazonian tribes supporting rainforest protection in Ecuador. As a painter, she draws inspiration from nature, music, consciousness and psychedelics, weaving creativity with advocacy for the Amazon and beyond.

• Jessica Rosset, Jungian Psychoanalyst

Jessica is a Jungian psychoanalyst and author whose work bridges psychology, spirituality, and symbolic traditions. Her practice explores the ways in which consciousness communicates through dreams, synchronicities, archetypes, and encounters, forms of meaning-making that reveal our deeper path toward individuation and wholeness.

She is currently researching the intersections of consciousness, reality, and soul psychology within the context of transpersonal and spiritual development, with a particular interest in how these dynamics relate to the emerging presence of artificial intelligence and the evolution of the human psyche.

• Winnie Street, Senior Researcher at Google AI 

Winnie is a senior researcher at Google AI. Her work is focused on evaluating the cognitive capabilities of large language models, particularly for evidence of social intelligence, and assessing the practical and ethical significance of those capabilities for individual users and society at large.

Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming is a Studio and Lab that lives at the intersection of wisdom, culture and technology. We exist to inspire a new generation of leaders, designers and builders to create technology with spirit. We believe tech with spirit is about building technology with ethical depth and inner wisdom – not just speed and scale. www.hurryupweredreaming.com