The AI Collective

The world’s largest AI community. Uniting 200k+ pioneers across 100+ global forums. Building the human layer for the AI era.

[The AI Collective @AICollectiveCo]

Have you ever watched a team of AI agents collaborate, delegate work, and communicate with each other in real time?
You’re about to. 👀
This isn't a demo of a single AI assistant. It's an entire team of agents working together to get the job done.

Want to learn more about this and other fascinating AI topics?
Join us for the Lunch & Hack series by The AI Collective and RoryPlans, where we bring together builders, founders, and AI leaders to learn, discuss, and build together.
Check the link for our upcoming agenda, event calendar, and recordings of past sessions: https://t.co/SMSY0fyeql

[The AI Collective @AICollectiveCo]

On today's Byte: Will New York's RAISE Act build trust in AI?

It pushes big AI developers to prove their systems are safer, but gives the public little say, no right to an explanation and no way to appeal when AI affects them. Safer isn't the same as trusted.

Full read 👇 https://t.co/9bQBTfZSDw

[The AI Collective @AICollectiveCo]

On today's Byte: the real reason your AI agents keep getting it wrong.

Hint: it isn't the model. The answer was just sitting in a system the agent couldn't reach. Connect your context and everything changes.

Full read 👇
https://t.co/25az34mJEP

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Last call! Applications for tomorrow night’s ThinkingAI table close today.

This dinner is for senior growth leaders from Seed–Series C enterprises. In town for Databricks week and want the seat most people won’t get?

Link to apply below

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Apply to secure your spot here: https://t.co/IpyL6RSLoR

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The most important conversations during @databricks Week won't happen on stage, but around the dinner table.

On June 16, we're bringing together 20 senior growth leaders from Seed to Series C companies.

The room includes leaders who are:

- Building AI-native growth engines from the ground up
- Replacing traditional funnels with autonomous workflows
- Scaling teams where agents handle work

The room is nearly full, with only a handful of seats left

If you're a senior growth operator and want to join the conversation, comment below and we'll send you the page👇

Hosted by @AICollectiveCo × ThinkingAI

[Joanna Kurylo @joannakurylo]

Ayo, Detroit!!

In less than 8 hours after finishing last night’s Vibe Connect X Zo Vibe & Sips event, @0thernet and I landed in Motor City to do an irl build sesh with @AICollectiveCo and @openclaw!

LFZ!

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

Been feeling extra grateful for the @AICollectiveCo team this week!

What started as a few people in a SF apartment has become a global team of 650+ builders, chapter leads, organizers, advisors, and volunteers carrying this movement in rooms all around the world.

Every city, every event, every intro, every late-night planning doc, every “how can I help?” has pushed this further than I ever could have imagined.

It is the honor of my life to build alongside this team.

Thank you for growing the movement, championing the human side of AI, and reminding me again and again that the future gets built by people who care enough to show up.

Onwards and upwards!!

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

Yesterday, I gave the fullest version yet of the core philosophy behind @AICollectiveCo.

The short version:

The Collective exists because AI is moving faster than our institutions, communities, and social systems know how to handle.

Our first event in Feb 2023 was a small living room meetup in SF. We were so nerdy about hosting it that we read The 2-Hour Cocktail Party, copied the name tags, icebreakers, harmonica intro, everything 😄

By our third event, 250+ people had signed up. By the end of that first year, we had hosted 50 events in 40 weeks.

Today, AIC has grown into 250k+ members across 200+ chapters and 50+ countries.

The question I wanted to answer yesterday was simple:

Why?

Why are a quarter million people gathering around AI in rooms like this all over the world?

I gave three answers:

1️⃣ The modern Homebrew Club

Innovation moves faster together.

The original Homebrew Computer Club helped people figure out personal computing while it was still weird, early, and undefined. In 2023, we were doing the same for AI.

2️⃣ Belonging

For me, AI Collective became the place where I found my people.

I only like to talk about AI. It is most of what I do 😅

These rooms became the place where that stopped feeling weird, and where so many of my closest friendships started.

3️⃣ Pioneers on the frontier of human progress

This is the deepest one.

We are living through a compounding set of S-curves: computing, the internet, mobile, social media, AI, and now agentic systems all stacking on each other.

The rate of technological change keeps accelerating.

Human adaptive capacity does not move the same way.

That gap is where trust breaks.

Trust in institutions, technology, media, each other. Gallup tracks 62 indicators of trust, and 60 are at or near all-time lows.

I do not think the answer is blame.

The deeper issue is that paleolithic emotional creatures are working through medieval institutions while playing with god-like technology.

That is a hard setup!!

For AIC, the answer starts with two things:

Nearness and co-creation.

Nearness means putting people back in rooms together and building shared humanity around the most important technology of our lifetimes.

Co-creation means creating forums where people can wrestle with hard questions, surface battle-tested insights, and slowly upgrade the systems around us.

That is the part I believe will become magnitudes more important over the coming years.

As AI gets more powerful, the human side of AI matters more.

The rooms matter more.

The conversations matter more.

The shared trust, shared agency, and shared story matter more.

I clipped 4 minutes from the talk that starts to get into the 3 reasons above. Full video in the comments, and I will share the deck once it is uploaded.

This is the deepest I have gone publicly on why AIC exists, what we believe, and the role I hope this community can play in the years ahead.

We are all stewards of the future in some small way.

Onwards and upwards!! 🚀

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

4,226 voices have already been recorded across 147 Humans in AI Week events happening around the world this week.

I do not think I would have believed that three years ago.

In early 2023, a small group of us were sitting in a cozy San Francisco apartment trying to make sense of ChatGPT, AGI, and what this all meant for the world.

The technology felt historic. The thing I remember most was the feeling in the room.

People were thinking out loud. Changing their minds. Admitting confusion. Getting excited. Getting scared. Finding language together.

That night became @AICollectiveCo.

Three years later, this community has grown to 250,000+ members, 200+ chapters, 1,700+ events, and 650+ volunteer organizers around the world.

This week, that same instinct is becoming Humans in AI Week: June 1–7, 2026, across 100+ cities and 50+ countries.

A global time capsule for the AI era.

The question is simple:

What does it mean to be human in the AI era?

The answers are messy. That is the point.

Some people are excited. Some are scared. Some feel behind. Some feel superpowered. Most of us are carrying a few contradictory feelings at once.

That is why I still believe so much in rooms full of real people.

Online, AI discourse collapses into extremes. In person, the temperature changes. People listen longer. The anxious parts get named with more care. The optimistic parts become less abstract. You remember there is a person behind every position.

That has always been the magic of this community.

We can gather frontier builders, curious newcomers, artists, students, founders, policy people, educators, and skeptics into the same conversation, then let the room do what the internet usually cannot: slow people down enough to hear each other.

Humans in AI Week feels like the culmination of 3+ years of learning how to create those rooms.

For me personally, this is also a handoff moment. I stepped back from leading The AI Collective because the community had become bigger than any one person, and because AJ, Catherine, and the team were ready to carry it into its next chapter. Watching them turn the original spark into something this global is SO special.

Deeply grateful to @AJs_AI, @catrosemcmillan, our chapter leads, our volunteers, our partners, and every person showing up or adding their voice this week.

This is what we built the community for.

Onwards and upwards!! 🚀

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Humans in AI Week begins today.
It’s Monday, June 1st, and it’s time to celebrate. 🎉

AI is reshaping how we work, learn, create, and govern. Most of these decisions have been made by a remarkably small number of people. At AIC, we think everyone deserves a seat at that table.

So from June 1–8, AIC chapters are hosting 100+ events across 100+ cities on six continents - mixers, talks, and gatherings built around one question: what does it mean to be human in the AI era? Alongside the events, we're building a global time capsule: a record of what people around the world fear, hope, and believe about AI in this moment, captured for all of humanity to look back on.

Join your city's celebration in person this week.

[The AI Collective @AICollectiveCo]

4 days out to Humans In AI Week!
~1M members
250 chapters
50 countries
2,000 events
6 continents
3 years of building, all activating in one week. 110 events at once, every chapter we have.
Your city's waiting. Pledge now!!
→ https://t.co/u9bU0YfTUz
#HumanInAIWeek #AICollective #

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

Pope Leo and Christopher Olah just asked the question underneath the entire AI transition:

What does it mean to be human in the AI era?

That is the question @AICollectiveCo has been making room for since the beginning.

AI is moving too quickly for any of us to metabolize alone. Reading about it online mostly creates anxiety. Being in a room with other thoughtful people actually helps you process what is happening, build language for it, and decide where you have agency.

That is the human layer I think AI needs.

For the past three years, AIC has been one big experiment in building that layer. 250,000+ people across 200+ chapters, from frontier researchers to founders to students to local organizers, trying to make sense of this technology together.

I have been calling this “civic middleware” because that is genuinely what it feels like we need more of: connective tissue between labs, policymakers, builders, and everyone else whose life is going to be shaped by AI.

The Pope’s Babel / Jerusalem framing is useful because it makes the stakes feel concrete. AI can become a force that centralizes power, abstracts away human judgment, and leaves most people feeling like spectators. Or it can become something we collectively shape toward human flourishing.

That second path requires more than regulation and lab alignment. It requires communities with enough trust, technical literacy, and shared context to turn local experience into collective intelligence.

That is what still gives me so much energy about the Collective!

People do not just want yet another panel or newsletter. They want a place to make sense of the weirdest, fastest technological transition of our lifetimes with other humans who are paying attention.

The highest calling of the Collective is to help society build the shared context, trust, and participatory muscle to make AI genuinely human-friendly.

And we are less than 1% of the way there. Onwards!

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There’s so much happening in San Francisco around AI, and we want to share it with the world.

We’re announcing Lunch & Hack, a new online event series where you’ll learn from great people, hack on something new each session, and get the chance to share what you built with the community.

Link to the event in the comments.

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

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[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

Every AIC banner is a tiny time capsule.

March 2023: The GAI Collective, designed in Photoshop to make our tiny AI meetup feel real.

Now: SF Pitch Night, builder vests, packed rooms, and a community far beyond anything we imagined.

From shared curiosity to a global movement – we’re still just getting started! 🚀

[Chappy Asel @chappyasel]

Two years ago, we hosted our first-ever AI Collective Demo Night!

Last night, 250+ AI founders, investors, and operators packed the @AWS Builder Loft for our two-year anniversary Demo Night – Hard not to get a little sentimental about that 🥹

Nearly 100 startups applied to demo. Seven finalists took the stage, each building in a different corner of the AI frontier:
🧬 Pioneer – fine-tuning agent for better models
🗜️ @cmprsr – sharper accuracy via context compression
🦺 GSD – real-time fatigue risk detection
🧠 RoBrain – debugging memory for AI agents
🛠️ @megacode_ai – eval-driven coding agent optimization
🛡️ Failproof AI – autohealing transient agent failures
📈 Deep Insight Labs – 10x public-market research agents

The best part was the room itself!

Across the night, attendees submitted nearly 1,000 pieces of feedback to the demoists. That has always been the magic of @AICollectiveCo to me: a room full of people who are genuinely curious, unusually generous, and excited to help each other build.

After the community vote, the Demo Night Hall of Fame winners were:
🏆 Best Overall: GSD
🤖 Best Technology: Pioneer
🎨 Most Creative: RoBrain

Huge thank you to AWS for hosting us, to every founder who applied, to the seven teams who demoed, and to everyone who showed up with real energy and thoughtfulness.

Two years in, I feel more grateful than ever for this community and more excited than ever for what it becomes next! 🚀