AI, Collective Action & the Moment That Cannot Wait with Dex Hunter-Torricke, Center for Tomorrow, 100% Human at Work & GPF
About the session
The pace and scale of AI’s advance demand a level of coordination and collective vision that has not yet been fully mapped, let alone realized.
AI is already reshaping how we live, work, and relate to one another, across households, classrooms, workplaces, and communities. Yet our institutions, frameworks, and shared imagination are struggling to keep pace. As critical tipping points are reached, deeper questions are emerging about what it means to remain human in a rapidly shifting landscape, amid rising mental health challenges, increasing loneliness, and growing pressure on attention, agency, and connection.
The potential of AI is significant. So too are the risks embedded in misaligned incentives that shape its development and deployment, often in ways that quietly override collective intentions.
This session brings together leaders working across policy, technology, academia, philanthropy, and culture to explore what meaningful coordination could look like at this moment. The focus is on connecting existing efforts, aligning around shared values, and translating those into real, collective action.
A key part of the conversation will also center on the role of storytelling, creative practice, and cultural infrastructure in helping societies navigate this transition, ensuring that human imagination remains at the core of what comes next.
Who this is for
This session is for leaders, funders, practitioners, and thinkers working across sectors who are engaging with the societal implications of AI and are interested in more coordinated, human-centered approaches.
What you will get out of it
A clearer understanding of the systemic challenges and opportunities presented by AI
Insight into how different sectors can align efforts toward collective action
Perspectives on the role of culture, storytelling, and public engagement in shaping the future of AI
Opportunities to connect with others working at the intersection of AI and society
Hosted by
Global Philanthropy Forum
Speakers
Dex Hunter-Torricke, Founder, Center for Tomorrow
Sarah Howard, Managing Director, Global Philanthropy Forum
Dr. David Kyuman Kim, Founder, Being Human; Advisor, Global Philanthropy Forum
Kathryn Morrissey, Senior Advisor, AI Psychological Research Coalition; GPF Fellow
Anna Gowdrige, Director, 100% Human at Work, Virgin Unite
This session is an invitation to move from fragmented responses to shared direction, at a moment where the stakes, and the opportunity, could not be higher.