AI & Humanity: are we going to be okay?
Did this in San Francisco earlier this month, event recap. Curious how the conversation lands here. The social fabric and AI landscape in China feel different.
A panel with a philosopher, a therapist, and an engineer.
Suggested reading: THE 2028 GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE CRISIS
Software gets solved in 6 months. You brief an agent: "Don't make mistakes". Walk away. Come back to a working feature.
Once that's true for engineers, the same happens to analysts, designers, marketers, lawyers. Travel. Insurance. Payments. Everything priced per seat. Every business built on human friction collapses.
Two questions for the room.
What actually happens to work?
What happens to us while it happens?
Open debate. Come with questions.
Speakers
David Ammerschlaeger / Therapist
Clinical psychologist and chief psychological counselor at ChingHo Clinic in Shanghai. Has lived in China for 10 years. Researches existential psychology. Holds 4 master's degrees across 3 fields. Previously head of Mental Health & Wellbeing at YWIES/YCIS, CFO at L'Oréal Research & Innovation, and a tax lawyer. TEDx speaker (3 times). Member of the British Psychological Society and International Coach Federation.
James Miller / Philosopher
Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Initiatives and Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University. Former Co-Director of the Humanities Research Center. Scholar of Daoism, China's indigenous religion. Has published numerous books and essays on Chinese philosophy, religion, and ecological thought.
Cat / Engineer & Physicist
Comes from theoretical physics. Spent years on protocol design with crypto teams before turning to AI. Now builds typewriter_1913, a base model trained only on texts written before 1913, a machine with an old memory that never read the internet. Uses it to test whether a model can reason its way to discoveries like Einstein's field equations, or only memorizes them once it has seen them.
Jenny Chen Host
Organizes events at Puzzle Exchange, an event series in San Francisco exploring the intersections of humanity and technology. Co-founded WalktheChat, a B2B SaaS company working with 300+ DTC brands. Builds marketing automation in the terminal with Claude Code. Spends 1.07 billion tokens a week.
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