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Hosted by: Tone Fonseca (New York Artificial Intelligence Meetup Group) Date: Wednesday, July 9, 2025, 8:00 PM Type: Retrospective synthesis session Participants: Magnus Hedemark, Jody Solomon, Ravinia, Bill, and other community members This special edition of the New York AI Meetup marked a first—rather than diving into a single topic, Tone Fonseca orchestrated a masterful retrospective that wove together the major themes from months of deep philosophical and technical discussions. What emerged was a rich tapestry of ideas that connected human experience, art, consciousness, biological complexity, and AI risk in ways that illuminated the broader patterns of our ongoing relationship with artificial intelligence. ...

When Machines Dream of Electric Paint: Inside the AI Creativity Revolution How an online community’s exploration of AI scenarios became a window into humanity’s creative future Elena Martínez had been mixing paint by hand for thirty-seven years when she first saw her work hanging next to a machine’s. This wasn’t Elena’s story—it was a hypothetical scenario posed by Tone Fonseca during a series of riveting online meetups that would challenge everything participants thought they knew about creativity, consciousness, and what it means to be human in the age of artificial intelligence. Part of the ongoing collaboration between CASHE (Culture, AI, Science and the Human Experience) and the New York AI meetup group, these conversations have become a crucible for exploring the most profound questions of our technological age. ...