What's inside: • Squamish Nation opening with Vanessa Gonzalez — creation legend, Unity Song, and a real conversation about what reconciliation means when you…
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What's inside:
• Squamish Nation opening with Vanessa Gonzalez — creation legend, Unity Song, and a real conversation about what reconciliation means when you show up consistently, not just for a land acknowledgement
• Community announcements — Film Club (Kevin on AI burnout: "productivity peaks at 1-3 tools, crashes at 4+"), MAC (12 meetups in, organoids and synthetic brains), Metacreation Lab (Philippe just knighted by France), Demo Desk returns, Comox Valley AI launch, AI & Education, Ethical Futures Lab, Sports & Carbon Footprint, and more
• Sarah Downey — AI Ethics 101: 10 companies control it all, deepfakes cost her family $10k, the EU has rules and Canada has nothing. Her fix: develop an inner compass
• Sev Geraskin — Transmutarianism: a moral accounting framework born from conversations on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. 63% of unhoused people surveyed want AI to show care and compassion. Those voices aren't in the training data
• Martin Lapotka — Rawlsian AI for fair contracts: peer-reviewed, open-source, counterfactual-tested. The intelligence is in the design, not the LLM
• Panel discussion with 25+ audience questions — Sev vs. Martin vs. Sarah, no easy answers
Announced: Future Proof Festival, October 26–31, 2026 at the Space Center.
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