AI and the End of Human Primacy?

AI and the End of Human Primacy?What happens when intelligence is no longer uniquely human? Artificial intelligence is often discussed as a technology: what it will automate, what jobs it may replace, what new capabilities it will unlock.But perhaps something much deeper is happening. For the first time in human history, we are creating forms of intelligence that will eventually rival or surpass our own. When that happens, it will not only reshape work and technology. It will challenge some of our most basic assumptions about power, creativity, control, meaning — and what it means to be human. This interactive evening is an invitation to explore AI as a profound threshold in the human story. Together, we will look at questions such as:What changes when human intelligence is no longer the highest form of intelligence we know?What might AI mean for work, creativity, power and human purpose?What parts of our current world could be fundamentally reshaped by it?And if AI challenges the story of human exceptionalism, what might it ask us to rediscover about ourselves? This is not a night of techno-utopianism or AI doom. It is a space for sense-making, reflection and conversation around one of the most consequential developments of our time. The evening is part of The Great Initiation Series — a series of gatherings exploring the breakdown of the old world, the birth of something new, and the deeper transformation humanity may be moving through. Monday, 17 August7:00 PMThe Hollow Tree