IN-PERSON EVENT

Thursday June 27, 2025 | 3:30PM - 8:00 PM Loyola Marymount University

As AI rapidly reshapes the modern workplace, how are companies adapting their talent strategies, governance models, and workforce structures?

Join us for an afternoon of honest conversations around the Future of Work, with a focus on how organizations are integrating AI—from hiring and training to managing change, shifting roles, and navigating layoffs or headcount freezes.

Our featured panel, Rethinking Talent in the Age of AI, explores what responsible innovation looks like in an era of uncertainty—and how we can ensure a more equitable future for knowledge workers.

$40 for non-members. *Become a member of AI LA at any level and get this exclusive discount. Click HERE to join!

IN-PERSON EVENT

Thursday June 5, 2025 | 6:00 - 8:00 PM United Bowl Nation ​Marina Del rAI is a new local meetup series in Marina del Rey bringing together the blue tech, AI, and startup communities by the water. From ocean innovation to emerging tech, it’s a space for builders, creatives, and curious minds to connect, share ideas, and grow something new right here in the Marina.

​Free parking! Come support local businesses and meet others working in tech in the Marina area!

SPONSORED CONTENT

Thursday, June 12 | 5:30 PM - 8:30PM PT | HanaHouse Newport Beach

Join our partners @SAP and @GACC West for a thought-provoking and interactive panel discussion on ethical #AI in #healthcare.

This complimentary event to the general public will bring together industry leaders to explore how we can ensure AI technologies remain ethical, transparent, and inclusive as they reshape the future of healthcare.

NEWS

Another annual AI LA event just wrapped, AI on the Lot (AIOTL), and the theaters were packed! Some of the most highly attended sessions focused on how filmmakers and entertainment creators are using AI in their workflows but in ethical ways, along with how best to protect IP.

It just so happened that this same week the New York Times, who’s in a lawsuit with OpenAI over copyright infringement, got themselves a licensing deal! Amazon will LICENSE, as in pay for, NYT content for use with Alexa and for “training Amazon’s proprietary foundation models.”

So it is possible to pay for copyright-protected works after all.

As the “Directing with AI: Practice, Ethics, and Possibility” kicked off the first morning of AIOTL, filmmaker and partner at Asteria, Paul Trillo, was asked about his thoughts on ethics in the AI creator field.

"If we're told that something's impossible, that these models can't be created without stealing or scraping, we will never bother it to try the other route,” Trillo replied. “ It's important that artists lead the future to building these tools and we don't get steamrolled by the big tech companies to rewrite the rules. We have the opportunity to carry the torch forward.”

Those that attended the session, “The Future of Ethical AI in Film Production,” got to see this in action. “ Is there a guilt free way to use AI tools without sacrificing quality?” Don Allen, III, from the artist-led, film and animation studio, Moonvalley, asked the audience.

His answer was, “Yes,” and he then proceeded to demonstrate how Moonvalley’s AI model only uses materials and data sets they license from creators. While the cost and licensing model is still a work in progress, he showed us that it can be done.

This was also the same week when Google released a flurry of product updates, including VO3 AI, their latest text to video model, which spurred a series of short-form videos all over social. Having sat in on a number of sessions during AI on the Lot, which highlighted the use of various AI tools and methodologies, there are still so many layers of real-world expertise, script writing, production, design, special effects and crafting that goes into the making of a quality film, TV show, or commercial.

Director and cinematographer, Michael Goi, had this to say, “There’s this myth that a lot of the public seems to have, that all we do is put in this prompt and we get an amazing movie. Well, true filmmaking and real artistic creative impetus doesn't work like that. It takes a lot of skill. It takes a lot of dedication on the part of the people who are AI creators to really understand what each technology does and how the best to use it.”

A few other stories of note in What We’re Reading: Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans to create a master list on all of us, then Jon Stewart of The Daily Show weighs in on Palantir and Alex Karp’s desire for dominance and vengeance; Stewart also interviews Carole Cadwalladr on Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State; WGA East AI Task Force pens an Op-Ed in the Hollywood Reporter stating AI is on track to having its “Napster Moment”; Karen Hao is on tour for her new book “Empire of AI” that delves into the rise of OpenAI and the broader impacts of artificial intelligence on society; and Demis Hassabis shares his thoughts on the definition of AGI and why we aren't there yet.

So there’s still time?