The Humanist Review of AI: Abundance & Scarcity

What becomes scarce when intelligence is abundant? Artificial intelligence promises a new era of abundance—but how will it deliver on that promise? And what impact will abundance have on how our society works?

This event marks the publication of the second issue of The Humanist Review of AI, a new journal of ideas funded by Microsoft AI that explores these questions.

For more, visit the Humanist Review of AI's website.

About the Speakers

Aaron Bastani is a British writer, broadcaster and political commentator. He is the cofounder of Novara Media and the author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism, which explores how technological abundance might support a more prosperous and equitable society. His work focuses on technology, political economy, climate and the future of work.

Sarah Guo is the founder at Conviction, an AI-native venture capital firm established in 2022. Previously, she was a general partner at Greylock. She and her partners have been early investors in the most important companies of tomorrow, including Baseten, Clay, Cognition, Figma, Harvey, HeyGen, Listen Labs, Mistral, Rippling, Sierra and Thinking Machines. Sarah is from Wisconsin, has four degrees from University of Pennsylvania, and lives in the Bay Area with her husband and four kids. She co-hosts the popular AI podcast "No Priors" with Elad Gil.

Mustafa Suleyman is the CEO of Microsoft AI. Before leading Microsoft AI, he was CEO and co-founder of Inflection AI, and before that, he co-founded DeepMind, where he led applied research and commercialization efforts. He is the publisher of The Humanist Review of AI, and the author of bestselling book The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first century’s Greatest Dilemma. He is on the board of The Economist and is a senior fellow at The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Our moderator is Stephen Morris, the San Francisco Bureau Chief of the Financial Times.

All in-person attendees will receive a complimentary copy of The Humanist Review of AI, a quarterly publication funded by Microsoft AI. Its goal is to examine AI’s impact on our world and ourselves through the lens of philosophy, ethics, economics and culture. The Review exists in print and online, and is available across the world. Contributors to date include Daron Acemoglu, Alison Gopnik, Nick Cave, Naomi Alderman, Alain de Botton, Amy Kurzweil, Cass R. Sunstein, Sarah Guo and Aaron Bastani.

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Speakers

Aaron Bastani, Co-founder, Novara Media

Sarah Guo, Venture Capitalist; Founder, Conviction

Mustafa Suleyman, CEO, Microsoft AI

Moderator: Stephen Morris, San Francisco Bureau Chief, Financial Times

7 p.m. doors open & check-in
8–9 p.m program
(all times Pacific Time)