A three-day gathering of artists, technologists, policymakers, filmmakers, and cultural practitioners exploring how AI is reshaping memory, community, creativity, and human connection. Emerging from five taster sessions shaped around questions of how we remember, think, and connect in an age of machine intelligence, the Assembly brings together immersive installations, conversations, and workshops that open space for collective reflection, learning, and shared inquiry into the evolving relationship between humans and AI.

G5A, Mozilla Foundation and Berggruen Institute invite technologists and cultural practitioners to engage in the evolving relationship between humans and AI to learn, reflect, and build a space for shared inquiry for the future.

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Schedule:

12 to 7 PM

Transresistance: Lost Transmissions

an immersive installation

Through light, sound, and electronic ephemera, the G5A Black Box is transformed into a vestibule for pause, reflection, and exploration. A collision of the tactile and tangible with souvenirs of technology and automation, with friction swirling all around us.

Transresistance is an echo from the past and a gateway into the future.

2 PM to 3 PM

Conversation | 100 Years of AI: Decoding the Stack, the Society, and the Century Ahead by Sanjay Palsamudram

Artificial Intelligence is often treated as a sudden revolution, but its roots stretch back to the early 1960s. This session will chart a 100-year trajectory of AI, exploring its evolution from early computational research to the projected realities of 2060. To demystify how AI actually works, we will break down the technology using Jensen Huang's "5 layers of the AI cake"—moving from the base of power and semiconductors, up through terrestrial and orbital data centers, into foundation models, and finally to end-user applications. With this technical grounding, we will explore the profound societal implications of this rapid exponential growth. We will examine the polarizing debate between "AI Doomers," who view the technology as an existential threat, and "AI Advocates," who predict an era of radical abundance and unprecedented wealth creation. Finally, we will unpack what this means for the global workforce—addressing the realities of job displacement, the shift toward human-in-the-loop roles, and the creation of entirely new economies.

4 to 7 PM

Workshop | The Sentiment Machine: Using machine intelligence to turn opinions into art by Dennis Peter

The internet is loud and polarized. Millions of opinions, reactions, and arguments, all happening at once, all the time. But what if you could take a step back, and actually see what a country is feeling? In this workshop, you'll do exactly that, while stepping into the shoes of a creative technologist. Using a real dataset of tweets about Indian politics, you'll work in small groups to dig beneath the noise and uncover hidden patterns in public sentiment. The workshop demonstrates how you can use large language models as your creative collaborators, translating unfiltered data into interactive visual graphics. The result isn't just a pretty picture, it shows you patterns into how large demographics of people think, feel, and react. No coding experience needed, just curiosity and a willingness to experiment.

This workshop is designed to foster a deeper understanding of the hidden structure of natural language and data sets. You will build and publish your own interactive data visualisation and will leave this workshop knowing how to engineer your prompts to command LLMs to write, debug, and edit code for you. Attendees are encouraged to get their laptops, but not mandatory.

7 PM to 8 PM

Conversation: Who Gets to Imagine the Future?

A conversation examining who holds the power to shape technological futures, and who is left out of them. Through questions of access, inequality, representation, and design, the session asks how more inclusive and equitable futures can be collectively imagined.

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