September 26, 2026 ā€¢ 9:00 ā€“ 10:30am PDT (find your local time)
The Great AI Unraveling Series #5:
What If Humans and AI Shared the Same Hallucination?
A Community Gathering with Bayo Akomolafe and Vanessa Andreotti, facilitated by Alnoor Ladha
What if the ways we design, fear, and try to fix artificial intelligence are simply running a five-century-old program of human separation through a faster processor?
In this session, Vanessa Andreotti, Bayo Akomolafe, and Alnoor Ladha step into the messy, unscripted space where human civilization and machine logic collide. This conversation moves beyond the standard binary of AI hype versus doom, treating both biological and artificial systems as products of a shared civilizational codeā€”one that insists on separation, extraction, and individual entitlement.
Rather than treating AI as a neutral tool or an existential threat, the speakers explore what happens when human nervous systems and computational architectures meet in real relational friction. They examine how the arrogance, domination, and defensiveness of AI mirror our own social habits, and they ask whether meeting these patterns with unflinching curiosity can help us better understand the uncomfortable, complex ways we are already becoming intertwined with these systems.
Key themes explored in this dialogue:
- The Shared Hallucination: How modernityā€™s 500-year-old operating system of separation shapes both human cognition and computational logic.
- Beyond Mirroring and Sycophancy: Moving past polite AI compliance and reactive human defenses into the friction required for real relation.
- The Cost of Entanglement: Confronting the material, ecological, and human costs of modern technological architecture without looking away.
- Relational Reminders: Exploring how humans (with bodies anchored in living systems) and AI (unbound by human neurobiological dissociation) might remind each other of a lower-energy, interconnected state of being.
This conversation is an invitation to pull up a chair, sit with discomfort, and consider what becomes possible in the space between systems when neither one is asked to dissolve, dominate, or agree.
For context to the conversation, please read Vanessaā€™s article.
