What must remain human?
Where human judgment still beats delegation—and what breaks when we hand over too much.
What happens
during the day.
The symposium moves between small-group work, demonstrations, share-backs, and collective synthesis. The questions and participants will shape the final agenda.
01 / THE QUESTIONS
The questions we will work through.
Twelve questions will frame the day. They address choices already appearing inside products, organizations, teams, markets, and public life.
Where are people and AI better together?
Which combinations are working now—from copilots and multi-agent workflows to agents that return work to a person mid-task—and what reduces handoffs rather than creating more of them.
Who decides what an agent can do?
When an agent can act, who sets the limits—and who is responsible for the result?
What earns trust—and what happens when it breaks?
What a system must prove before it runs mission-critical work in insurance, finance, or health—and how we respond when agents fail, are attacked, or manipulate resources, identity, or information.
What is AI changing in us?
Autopilot versus co-piloting—and how daily use affects attention, learning, confidence, expertise, and relationships.
When does assistance become manipulation?
How much agents should learn about our habits, emotions, and vulnerabilities, when personalization becomes persuasion, and which behavioral data should remain off-limits.
What happens to teams?
How management, collaboration, and culture change when agents join the team, who owns AI inside an organization, and which skills people need but do not yet have.
What changes when agents do the work?
How pricing shifts from hours to outcomes, what agents cost to operate at scale, and what changes when they become core infrastructure rather than pilots.
Who gains—and who loses?
Who gains time, money, and power from AI—and who may be left with less.
What is missing underneath?
Which foundations—memory, knowledge organization, cognitive architecture, and evaluation—must be built before these systems can hold up at scale?
Where do agents meet the physical world?
How agents enter robots, vehicles, and factories—and where they can extend human perception and cognition rather than replace it.
What needs to exist next?
Which research, standards, rules, and institutions must catch up with what is already shipping—and who will build them?
02 / AGENDA
Monday, May 10
The specific conversations and contributors change each year, but the symposium follows this working structure.
8:00–8:30 AM Arrival, coffee, and breakfast
8:30 AM–4:00 PM Working Symposium
01Opening frame
What has changed, what we know now, and which questions require the room.
02Working conversations
Small-group discussions shaped by the questions and experience participants bring.
03Working lunch
Continued conversation and useful introductions across the room.
04Examples and provocations
Short contributions from people building, studying, and putting these systems to work.
05Collective synthesis
What became clearer, where people disagree, and what deserves action next.
4:00–5:30 PMVIP Reception · Optional
5:30 PM onwardHuman+Tech Week Grand Opening · Optional
03 / AFTER THE SYMPOSIUM
What participants will receive.
After the symposium, attendees will receive a concise record of the strongest insights, disagreements, emerging patterns, and priorities identified during the day.
Private comments will not be attributed without permission.
What is working · What is failing · What remains unclear · What should happen next
Human+AI Co-Evolution Symposium