Can AI be Tamed?
Our LA summit is looming on the horizon and we’ve been working flat out to make it as spicy as possible. Here are just a few of the sessions that we’re sure will get tongues flapping:
The Alien inside the Machine
We know how to build large AI systems, but how they function under the hood can appear as something of a black box. Today’s frontier AIs invent strategies, pursue hidden goals, and sometimes resist control in ways nobody programmed.
In this conversation, AE Studio’s Cameron Berg and Natalie Monbiot explore the strange interior life of modern AI. Their discussion will broach issues such as why do these systems behave intelligently, yet opaquely; how do current alignment methods like Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) fall short; and what it will take to make AI both powerful and trustworthy.
From Fear to Frontier: How Creative Professionals are Turning AI into Their Next Competitive Advantage
AI is no longer a future trend — it’s changing the way films, series, and branded stories are made right now. This session dives into the creative frontier where human imagination meets intelligent tools, reshaping everything from storyboards to final cut.
Join Jessica Conway, two-time Emmy-nominated producer and showrunner; Alexia Adana, Edelman Creative Director and visual artist reimagining storytelling through design and emotion; and Caroline Ingeborn, COO of Luma AI, the company behind Dream Machine and the next generation of video intelligence.
Together they’ll explore how AI is transforming production into a new kind of collaboration — one where creators lead, machines accelerate, and entire workflows evolve. Expect an unfiltered discussion on what’s working, what’s breaking, and how professional creatives can harness this revolution to move faster, tell bigger stories, and expand what’s possible across screens.
IP in the Age of Infinite Content
As generative AI floods the world with content, the definition of ownership is up for debate. This session brings together perspectives from law, design, and innovation to explore how IP is evolving when anyone – human or machine – can create at scale. From virtual artists to co-creative fandoms, panelists will unpack how rights, royalties, and creative control are being redefined in the age of infinite creation.
Featuring Savannah Niles, co-founder and CEO of Wide Worlds, an AI-native platform for worldbuilding; David Beiner, co-founder of the metaverse record label Hume; and Vejay Lalla, a 25-year IP veteran and Partner in Manatt’s Digital and Technology Transactions practice.
Welcome: ElevenLabs
We’re thrilled to welcome ElevenLabs as a returning sponsor of the Artist and the Machine Summit in Los Angeles on November 19, 2025!
ElevenLabs is transforming how the world communicates through voice. As the leader in AI audio innovation, they empower enterprises and creators alike to harness the power of sound in entirely new ways. Leading organizations use ElevenLabs to grow their business—powering AI voice agents, enabling personalized tutoring, and facilitating large-scale media creation. Their models unlock efficiency, scalability, and storytelling potential across industries.
At the LA Summit, Emilie Drishinski of ElevenLabs will join Kakul Srivastava, Founder of Splice, for a Main Stage conversation exploring the future of sound, creativity, and human expression. Together, they’ll dive into how AI voice technology is shaping the next era of music creation – bridging enterprise impact with artistic innovation.
Creative strategist Kiron Heriot-Darragh wrote about the future of multimodal communication tools like ElevenLabs in a recent Substack, check it out here.
My Tool of the Week: by artist Lisa Jamhoury
Images by Whitney Browne Photography, featuring movement artistry of Françoise Voranger and Nikki Ortiz from Hybrid Movement Company.
Lisa Jamhoury is a movement artist and programmer who creates embodied, computational experiences. She does this by combining physical actions, drawn from the vocabulary of contemporary circus performance, with experimental software that translates real-world actions into a virtual space. At the heart of her creative practice is the exploration of tech as a mindful augmentation of human physicality.
Images by Whitney Browne Photography.
For her playtest with APOSSIBLE at Onassis ONX last week, Jamhoury used Claude Code to agentically code her new interactive installation, sync : mirror, and re-build the open-source software Kinectron.
“I’ve tried a bunch of agentic coding tools this year, but these days I stick solely with Claude Code. It’s gotten so good — and it saves me so much time. It’s liberating to spend less time debugging and more time focusing creatively on what I want to build.”
Try out Claude Code HERE
Hot Take: Harry McCracken
📰 News Roundup
Hollywood Without Borders?: Wonder Studios wants to accelerate the adoption of AI tools for use in original content. Recently, the London-based startup raised $12M which it plans to use to double its engineering team and create its own IPs.
Peep the new specs: Amazon is planning to outfit its delivery drivers with smart glasses. But not everyone is convinced that this will amount to a benign productivity hack as privacy concerns swirl around the decision.
Newsroom highjinks: There is a big reveal at the close of the documentary, Will AI Take My Job? “In a British TV first,” the host of the program confesses, “I’m an AI presenter.”
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Paige Piskin is an award-winning AI and XR creator, known for pushing the boundaries of digital makeup, character design, and augmented reality experiences. With AR effects generating more than 300 billion impressions, shared 2 billion times, Paige has worked with major brands like Netflix, Bratz, Warner, and Coldplay, bringing immersive storytelling to life. She has also been a guest judge for Netflix, consultant, and 2x hackathon winner, recognized for her innovative work in AI-driven AR experiences. Paige is passionate about blending generative AI with character design, expanding the possibilities of digital self-expression and interactive storytelling.
Claire Silver is an anonymous AI-Collaborative artist that works with oil, acrylic, collage, photography, and different digital mediums to create her work. She often blends the classical style and mythos into her art, collaboratively producing work that feels at once familiar and strange. Her work explores themes of innocence, trauma, the hero’s journey, and how our view of them will change in an increasingly transhumanist future. Claire’s art can be found in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has been at Sotheby’s London and Christie’s New York and in galleries, museums, and festivals all over the world. Featured in the New York Times, WIRED, Fortune, NPR, and countless podcasts, Claire takes every opportunity to explore her unending fascination with AI, fight for visibility for this budding art movement, and wonder at the magnitude of this moment in history. She often feels like a caveman painting fire. Claire is vocal in her belief that with the rise of AI, for the first time, the barrier of skill is swept away and that in this evolving era, taste is the new skill.