Uploaded August 2025 | Updated September 2026, 5 hours ago

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AI is a context changer, a shaker upper, and a force multiplier to what our human minds can do.

Andie Grace says that AI is a major philosophical shift in humanity, and when this kind of thing happens, the first people she goes to are artists and academics.

Andie and Stuart talk with artists and academics about their AI infused art coming to Black Rock City. They share their dreams and nightmares, and how to ‘go beyond.’

Verse-O-Matic
· Chad Elish

“Out the Other“
· Kate Greenberg, Deva Temple, Eric Vicenti

Burning Stories & Burner AI
· Dr Jukka-Pekka Heikkilä, Kiana Kaiser, Michael Zeltner

This is transforming personal stories, creating unique dialogues between humans and the machines that reflect us, the good, the bad, and the ugly… and the beautiful… and the surprising.

Here is how artists conjure creativity and empathy using AI at Burning Man, a home for art to push against and learn from.

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