John Pasmore recently founded and launched an Artificial Intelligence resource, Latimer.ai. This large language model (“LLM”) was built to deliver accurate historical information and bias-free interaction for Black and Brown audiences. From 1995 to 2005, John partnered with music impresario Russell Simmons, founder of Def Jam Records, to create Oneworld Media, Inc., where he served as CEO. Oneworld produced a magazine of the same name, a TV program with Warner Bros., and entered a multi-year custom publishing relationship with Hearst Magazines. John was also a co-founder and CEO of the venture-backed, video-based travel platform VoyageTV. He was a partner at the Family Office, TRS Capital, and several TRS Capital portfolio companies, including MovitaOrganics, an organic supplement company led by filmmaker Spike Lee’s wife, Tonya Lewis Lee.
Summit 2025
Friday ·
1:30pm
What if the real challenge isn’t teaching AI right from wrong, but designing it to carry meaning? What if AI was built not just for efficiency, but for belonging — for creativity, trust, community, and personalization we actually want? Following their provocations, we all gather in topic circles to ask why this matters, how else we might approach it, what we might do about it, and how we can communicate it to the world.
Summit 2024
Sunday ·
1:00pm
Aekta Shah, Responsible AI Researcher at Salesforce, and John Pasmore, CEO and founder of Latimer.ai, set the scene with their visions of inclusive AI. Aekta begins by leading us through an inclusivity experience. John shares the journey of Latimer, a large language model built to more accurately reflect the experience, culture, and history of Black and Brown people. Both take us through their visions for AI, imagining deep inclusion, empathetic engagement, and total transparency as the path to truly inclusive AI.