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!! 🚀