We are thrilled to announce the Artificiality Summit 2026! AI is dissolving our inherited boundaries—between knowing and not-knowing, between
Cognitive sovereignty is conscious, skillful, reversible navigation through the eight roles, including the possibility of assigning AI a role that fundamentally changes who you are.
A conversation with musician and AI4ALL board member, Tess Posner.
Our research shows that AI is reshaping how people reason, create, and form identity. We help organizations build cultures where humans stay the authors of their own minds.
We create live experiences that shift people from anxiety to agency—changing how people see intelligence, culture, and themselves as AI changes what it means to be human.
Audiences leave with:
AI is changing how people think, who they believe they are, and what they believe they can become. Culture matters now more than ever—because every change, including AI, runs through people first.
At the Artificiality Institute, we conduct one of the world’s only story-based research programs on the human experience of AI. Our ethnographic studies surface the emotional and cognitive patterns people follow as they adopt AI—from first discovery to identity-level integration.
The organizations paying attention to these shifts are already learning faster than everyone else.
Our sessions turn this research into practical, collaborative experiences that reveal what’s really changing inside your organization where people are already thinking, deciding, and creating differently alongside AI.
In our sessions, we reveal the patterns that drive how people think with AI. Using insights from our research and frameworks such as our AI Collaboration Cube, we help people understand how AI is changing our thinking, identity, and collective sensemaking.
Our keynote:
Audiences leave with that rare mix of wonder and precision—suddenly aware that what's changing isn’t the technology, but how they understand intelligence, culture, and themselves. Your teams will feel the shift from anxiety to agency, confident they can tell a new story of what it means to be human with AI.
The Artificiality Institute delivers research-based speaking and facilitation that helps organizations build adaptive, AI-ready culture.
An engaging keynote + facilitated conversation. We translate our research into a powerful, shared understanding of how AI changes thinking, identity, and culture.
We interview 20–40 people inside your group or association and integrate their lived experience into the keynote—so the message reflects your culture.
A bespoke half-day or full-day convening that combines keynote, co-creation labs, and story-based research. Bring the Artificiality Summit inside your organization.
We don't just predict the future of AI—we study how humans are already changing.
We’ve been working in AI strategy, culture, and education for more than a decade. Since ChatGPT’s release we’ve studied more than a 1,000 people—hundreds of hours of real human-AI interaction. We’ve researched their lived experience and from this we have built new frameworks and methodologies for helping humans understand themselves and each other when AI is a “machine employee.” We’ve built a new map of how humans and AI co-create, fracture, and rebuild.
Where others chase short term gains in workflow efficiencies, we build cultures that set organizations up for the real prize: new sources of innovation, creativity, and sustainable productivity gains.
Organizations that understand that AI adoption is fundamentally about people:
Recent collaborators include: Capgemini, E.ON, EY, The New York Times, Starbucks, Santander, Oregon Community College Association, Oregon State University, PLS, National Head Start Association, Transpower NZ, and dozens of forward-thinking organizations across corporate, government, education, and nonprofit sectors.
"With discussions around AI often centered on efficiency or technicalities, it was valuable to go deeper and discuss how it influences leadership, human systems, and organizational readiness."
— Brighid Kelly, Chief People Officer, Transpower NZ
"Helen and Dave delivered a uniquely engaging session that addressed AI's technical and moral complexity. Everyone came away more optimistic about the role AI will play in their business."
— Zazie Pence, The New York Times
“I have been involved in executive development and digital transformation for a number of years and can safely say that Helen and Dave's ability to make AI simple and accessible is outstanding. They break down technical barriers so executives can understand new strategic opportunities and the extent to which machines will change people and the way we work.”
— Paulo Pisano, Chief People Officer, Galp
"The fascinating thing about you is that you’re always at least two or three years ahead of what everyone else is talking about."
— Dave Copps, CEO, Worlds
“Helen and Dave have a unique understanding of AI technology, its business opportunities and its effect on people and society. They have a knack for pulling disparate pieces together in a way that helps people understand the bigger picture.”
— Kevin Delaney, Cofounder and Editor-in-Chief, Charter
“Helen and Dave sparked a candid and vigorous conversation among senior administrators from Oregon colleges and universities during their half-day session. While we've all been inundated with news reports and commentaries about AI, their presentation cut through the noise by helping identify key information and issues for these leaders to wrestle with.”
— Ben Cannon, Executive Director, Oregon Higher Education Coordinating Commission
“Helen and Dave have a unique ability to describe what it means to be human in the age of AI. They prompt an audience to think beyond the technology and to consider how technology can be both humanizing and dehumanizing. They are masters in translating complex issues into compelling, relatable stories, and theirs was the first presentation about AI that reassured me that, yes, we can do this, a beautiful future is possible with AI.”
— Tim Leberecht, Co-CEO, The House of Beautiful Business
