AI Salon is where leaders and explorers gather to unlock the potential of generative AI. We’re creating a space to learn, create, and advocate—together.
Our members are AI leaders as entrepreneurs, and inside their organizations, because they embraced generative AI early and played first, mindfully created, and now they generously lead—learning out loud, supporting others, and becoming go-to voices in a world hungry for AI understanding.
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GENEROUSLY LEAD others, enriching lives, redefining what’s possible, and unlocking a new era of human achievement.
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We have spent so much time warning about the harms of data extraction that we’ve nearly forgotten another truth: data can serve the public good. Not through surveillance. Not through unaccountable corporate capture. But through structured generosity; systems designed to return value to the people whose lives generate the very information our institutions depend on….
The Story of How HelloUSA Was Born in a South Miami Studio I had always heard about hackathons in the way people talk about marathons: inspiring, ambitious, and definitely for people with more technical endurance than me. Culturally, hackathons always seemed like these electrifying, caffeine-fueled gatherings where engineers spun ideas into software at dizzying speed….
Every community has a few people who quietly raise the bar for everyone else. In the AI Salon, Stacie Lech is one of them. She leads our Education Hub and is the founder of AI Teacher School, where she builds AI-powered tools and curriculum innovations for K–12 districts after fifteen years in the classroom. When…
It’s time to show off your skills. Submit your AI-infused creative work—be it writing, music, imagery, or vibe coding—by attaching your finished piece to this thread between now and December 10th. Community voting will be open until December 14th. React with emojis to vote for your favorites. Four finalists will be selected to compete the…
There is a way children tell stories before they learn to hesitate. When my seven-year-old describes a fox that lives under the moon or a pirate who hates mangoes, he does not pause to check if it sounds practical. He simply says it. The idea stands on its own. In a recent session of my…
by: Daisy Thomas The Next Frontier of Ethics Is Reciprocity Alignment has become the watchword of AI ethics, a clean, technical way to talk about moral responsibility without naming who owes what to whom. But alignment is not enough. A system can align to outcomes and still harm the world around it. Reciprocity, by contrast,…
Gratitude has always been slow. It resists efficiency. It asks us to pause, to see, to name what sustains us. That's what makes it dangerous in an age that wants everything—every feeling, every thought, every act of noticing—to be instant, optimized, and monetized. Gratitude, practiced fully, becomes a quiet rebellion against the automated world that…
Remember those slider puzzles we all played as kids? Well, thanks to Gemini and Nano Banana, now you can play the virtual version, with your own image or a generated one. Play here: https://ai.studio/apps/drive/1eN-m9QABtuPrioOz7SNRcDHYC1o7kYfY Courtesy of Brandon Tidd (btcompksu)
Many of our AI Salon members are just starting to discover the power and potential of NotebookLM's reasoning engine, like this example from Rick McCawley
Artificial intelligence has the potential to drive extraordinary benefits across sectors. But poorly designed regulation could unintentionally stifle innovation while failing to prevent real harms. SB 1047, currently under consideration in the California Senate, reflects this tension.
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