Stay Human: Author Your Mind in the AI Age with Helen & Dave Edwards
Most of us are using AI now. What most of us haven’t noticed is how much it’s changing us. Not all at once — gradually, in ways that are hard to see from the inside. The tasks we stop doing. The thinking we stop practicing. The conversations we start having with a machine instead of each other. Over three years, Helen and Dave Edwards of The Artificiality Institute studied thousands of people to understand what actually happens to humans when they collaborate closely with AI. What they found surprised them.
This talk shares the real stories: the teacher who lost her love of teaching, the artist who lost his reason to create, the people who expanded into something they couldn’t have become alone, and Helen’s own embarrassing failure when she mistook AI’s thinking for her own. You’ll leave understanding the three ways AI is already changing you, the patterns that separate people who thrive from people who drift, and — most importantly — what to do about it. This isn’t a tech talk. It’s a human one.
