I’ve been thinking a lot about how to draw artists together in these challenging times. How creatives can work together as a powerful force in this world despite the perceived devaluation of creative endeavours by AI. I see AI as a tool to be used, just like any other. Augmented reality glasses are here already; soon we will be able to map our homes and have John Horton Conway’s ‘Game Of Life’ dance to our favourite music as our living room wallpaper whilst playing a three dimensional game of Jenga (Newtonian physics included) with a relative, geographically located in Charleston on your desk: Something akin to a really good acid trip, I would imagine? This type of human connection will dazzle us and bring us even closer together, in the same way that the last telecommunication boom brought us Facebook and Snapchat. But what about the pockets of this brave new world which are not funded by NVIDEA or Microsoft? What will that look like? Is it possible that we could be exposed to mind manipulation by bad actors? Could we fall deeply in love with an AI and have a year long relationship only to find that the whole time it was just harvesting your data and trying to sell you three high ticket items? Could it be that people who can afford it live within the secure gated zone, where everything is customisable with the crystal clear sensory experiences that only Apple could make whilst the people who have run out of credits experience the freemium version and are cruelly manipulated by third party apps? These questions are real and they must be addressed.