Will AI Save or Destroy the World?

A debate, with a verdict from the floor. Every hour of this summit has argued that the answer is in our hands. This hour asks the room to decide what it actually believes. One side: AI is the closest thing to abundance humanity has ever built. The other: the same systems are already targeting civilians, surveilling the faithful, draining aquifers to train themselves, and concentrating more power in fewer hands than any technology before them. Both sides will be right about something. The point is to find out what.

Who this is for

Everyone. The room votes going in and votes going out.

On the table

• Is optimism a strategy or a sedative?
• Is refusal a stand or a surrender of the field?
• What does a community that believes it answers for what it builds owe the world when it disagrees with itself?

You'll leave with

• The strongest version of the argument you disagree with
• A vote you cast twice, and a reason if it changed
• The end-of-day question the closing remarks will answer