Staying Human With AI
Keynotes and Workshops
Staying Human
With AI Keynotes and Workshops
Bring the Artificiality Institute to Your Organization
The Conversation About AI Has Been Entirely About AI.
The Conversation
About AI Has Been
Entirely About AI.
The Conversation About AI Has Been
Entirely About AI.
We Think It Should Be About You.
We Think It Should
Be About You.
Who are you becoming while you work with AI? Are you the author of that change?
We help you see what’s actually happening—and how to choose your future.
Grounded in one of the world’s only story-based research programs on the human experience of AI, we make the invisible visible—and help people stay the authors of their own minds.
Who are you becoming while you work with AI? Are you the author of that change?
We help you see what’s actually happening—and how to choose your future.
Grounded in one of the world’s only story-based research programs on the human experience of AI, we make the invisible visible—and help people stay the authors of their own minds.
What Makes This Different
Most AI talks offer secondhand insights about technology. We research what AI is doing to people.
For a decade, we've conducted ethnographic interviews—hundreds of hours—surfacing how people actually think, feel, and change as they work alongside AI.
The models are becoming a commodity. Your people aren't. How they use AI—to extend themselves, to think together, to become more capable than they were—is the difference between companies running the same models. Because every person's use of AI is an outcome of their own mind.
Most AI talks offer secondhand insights about technology. We research what AI is doing to people.
For a decade, we've conducted ethnographic interviews—hundreds of hours—surfacing how people actually think, feel, and change as they work alongside AI.
The models are becoming a commodity. Your people aren't. How they use AI—to extend themselves, to think together, to become more capable than they were—is the difference between companies running the same models. Because every person's use of AI is an outcome of their own mind.
Who We Work With
Organizations designing for who their people are becoming
The Stay Human Briefing
Ask ten people on your team how they feel about AI and you’ll get ten different answers—excited, curious, unsure, energized, overwhelmed, furious, delighted. Those feelings decide how AI actually gets used, which means they decide your ROI. The Briefing takes them seriously.
We open with what a decade of experience in AI has taught us: why people feel so differently about AI, what remains irreducibly human in the work of the future, how AI enters thinking, how AI can extend everyone’s reach, how dependency happens, and what it takes to stay the author of your own work.
Then we hand it to your team. Answering questions people have—am I still doing my job, can I trust what I made, how do I grow and extend myself with AI—is what we do best.
No preparation required from you. Our research findings and your questions answered live in one hour—no autopilot. Your team leaves with language for what they’ve been sensing—and the foundation for your team’s intelligence being enhanced by AI.
For: Teams, all-hands gatherings, anyone ready to start
Format: Remote, 60 minute briefing with live Q&A
Ask ten people on your team how they feel about AI and you’ll get ten different answers—excited, curious, unsure, energized, overwhelmed, furious, delighted. Those feelings decide how AI actually gets used, which means they decide your ROI. The Briefing takes them seriously.
We open with what a decade of experience in AI has taught us: why people feel so differently about AI, what remains irreducibly human in the work of the future, how AI enters thinking, how AI can extend everyone’s reach, how dependency happens, and what it takes to stay the author of your own work.
Then we hand it to your team. Answering questions people have—am I still doing my job, can I trust what I made, how do I grow and extend myself with AI—is what we do best.
No preparation required from you. Our research findings and your questions answered live in one hour—no autopilot. Your team leaves with language for what they’ve been sensing—and the foundation for your team’s intelligence being enhanced by AI.
For: Teams, all-hands gatherings, anyone ready to start
Format: Remote, 60 minute briefing with live Q&A
Keynote: Stay Human
Working with AI is changing how you think, how you show up for others, and who you become. The question is whether you’re the author of that change.
For the past decade, we’ve been listening to people describe what happens when AI enters their thinking. Not what AI does—what it does to them. The moments when ideas come easier but feel less your own. When the answer appears but the understanding doesn’t follow. When you execute brilliantly and can’t explain why.
This keynote makes the invisible visible. We share what we’ve learned from thousands of stories about the transformation happening in minds across our economy and society more broadly. We name what’s at stake: not your job, but your authorship—your capacity to remain the one who decides what your thinking is for.
People leave with language for what they’ve been sensing and the conviction that they get to choose who they become.
For: Conferences, leadership summits, your event
Format: 45-60 minute keynote with Q&A
Working with AI is changing how you think, how you show up for others, and who you become. The question is whether you’re the author of that change.
For the past decade, we’ve been listening to people describe what happens when AI enters their thinking. Not what AI does—what it does to them. The moments when ideas come easier but feel less your own. When the answer appears but the understanding doesn’t follow. When you execute brilliantly and can’t explain why.
This keynote makes the invisible visible. We share what we’ve learned from thousands of stories about the transformation happening in minds across our economy and society more broadly. We name what’s at stake: not your job, but your authorship—your capacity to remain the one who decides what your thinking is for.
People leave with language for what they’ve been sensing and the conviction that they get to choose who they become.
For: Conferences, leadership summits, your event
Format: 45-60 minute keynote with Q&A
The Day, In Person: Stay Human
The Day, In Person:
Stay Human
The keynote opens the conversation. Then we stay for the rest of it.
We start with the full Stay Human keynote, live, with your whole org. Then we make it yours: working sessions where teams apply the frameworks to their actual work—the decisions they’ve handed over plus the new decisions they get to make, the skills they’re worried about plus the skills they want to grow, the tools that change how they think and what is now possible that wasn’t before.
And between the sessions is the part people remember. The corridor conversations. The question someone finally asks over lunch because the keynote gave them permission. The best moments of our annual Summit have never been on the agenda, and we build the day so those moments have space to happen.
By evening, you have a shared language, a set of live conversations, and a leadership team that has seen how its people are actually changing.
For: Organizations ready to build shared capacity
Format: Full day in person—keynote, working sessions, and us there the whole time
The keynote opens the conversation. Then we stay for the rest of it.
We start with the full Stay Human keynote, live, with your whole org. Then we make it yours: working sessions where teams apply the frameworks to their actual work—the decisions they’ve handed over plus the new decisions they get to make, the skills they’re worried about plus the skills they want to grow, the tools that change how they think and what is now possible that wasn’t before.
And between the sessions is the part people remember. The corridor conversations. The question someone finally asks over lunch because the keynote gave them permission. The best moments of our annual Summit have never been on the agenda, and we build the day so those moments have space to happen.
By evening, you have a shared language, a set of live conversations, and a leadership team that has seen how its people are actually changing.
For: Organizations ready to build shared capacity
Format: Full day in person—keynote, working sessions, and us there the whole time
What They Say
"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
"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
Get in Touch
Bring the Artificiality Institute to Your Organization
Tell us a little about what you have in mind and we’ll call you back.
Email: hello@artificialityinstitute.org
1-541-241-6632
