July 10, 2026 • 10:00 – 11:30am PDT (find your local time)

The Great AI Unraveling Series #3: The Superfluity of AI

A Community Gathering with Dr. Lyla June Johnston, Ashley Nicole Leitka, and Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez

Throughout time, humanity has experimented with playing God, and each time we have been humbled by forces larger than ourselves. Many Indigenous Nations consciously chose not to pursue certain technologies, recognizing that not every innovation serves life, and that wisdom lies in understanding the boundaries of nature and those of our human condition.

As artificial intelligence promises ever greater efficiency, productivity, and control, we are invited to ask a deeper question: Which problem are we really trying to solve? Beneath the relentless pursuit of more—more knowledge, more power, more convenience—lies a profound inquiry into sufficiency, relationship, and meaning.

Join Lyla June in conversation with Kathy Wan Povi Sanchez and Ashley Nicole Leitka as they explore Indigenous perspectives on humility, reciprocity, and living in right relationship with the Earth and one another. Together, they will examine whether AI represents genuine progress or simply the latest expression of modernity’s insatiable appetite for growth, extraction, and control. Which forms of intelligence have guided human communities for millennia? Which wisdom might emerge when we honor the limits that sustain life rather than continually seek to transcend them?

This conversation invites us to reconsider what it means to flourish—not through domination of the natural world, but through belonging within it.

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