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Connect, collab and build together for a better future!

Do you work with AI professionally and believe in the positive impact it can have?
But are you increasingly concerned about the risks and want to work on practical solutions to tackle them?
Or are you already building tools, systems or frameworks to use AI as a tool for good?

Then join me and other like-minded people for grounded, fact-based discussions to explore solutions and find collaborators - all while walking through Englischer Garten for an hour.
Come and get your 10k steps a day in!

Why creating a positive AI impact poses one of the most important challenges of our future:

  • Over 700 Mio Weekly users spend a staggering 20 minutes a day on average using ChatGPT via phone (Desktop is at over 13 Minutes per session on average).
  • Multiple studies show that overreliance on AI could decrease cognitive abilities and critical thinking, potentially leading to deskilling of competencies.
  • LLMs' tendencies toward hallucination and sycophancy increase the risks of dependency and confirmation bias due to false claims, potentially causing or reinforcing mental health issues ('AI psychosis').
  • AI adoption drives content homogenization, dilution in quality and a significant increase in 'AI slop'. According to a new study, 74% out of 900k new webpages include AI content.
  • Together, these developments fuel the already accelerated addiction economy driven by constant distractions, dopamine hits and social isolation.

At the same time:

  • Tech companies boast about large productivity gains from AI, while Gartner predicts over 40% of agentic AI projects to fail by 2027.
  • Influencers fearmonger that AI is replacing jobs, while empirical studies show the necessity for human experts to steer AI.
  • Investors claim AGI is here with every new release, while companies like OpenAI and Apple admit that reasoning models still show severe limitations.

This divide between hype and reality illustrates the urgent need for change, to realign incentives prioritizing AI solutions that serve society rather than exploit it.

Who this meetup is for:

  • Optimists and realists who enjoy working on practical solutions
  • People who're looking for meaningful discussions involving constructive criticism based on facts, data and experience
  • Tinkerers with a trial and error mindset who like to break things in order to make them better
  • Passionate problem solvers with a positive hands-on mindset and a decent moral compass

Who this meetup is not for:

  • People building or selling yet another GPT wrapper to increase AI slop for quick personal financial gain
  • Pessimists and AI naysayers offering only unsolicited negativity without constructive alternatives
  • People making hyperbolic and unfounded statements, whether it is AGI hype or fearmongering
  • Anyone more interested in being right than making things better

Why meet for a walk & talk?

  • Walking enhances creativity, cognitive function, and out-of-the-box thinking.
  • Plus it's generally more fun and obviously healthier than sitting indoors all day.

About me:
I build AI automation for companies and teams for over 3 years now, always trying to bring value, keep quality high and AI Slop low. Much of my work involves grounded education during what's honestly the fastest-changing, most bloated tech landscape of my 13-year professional career.
That's why I'm convinced we must connect, collab and build together for a better future!

Sources:
Decrease in cognitive abilities, critical thinking, deskilling: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872 , https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/lee_2025_ai_critical_thinking_survey.pdf, https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03924

Hallucination, sycophancy, confirmation bias, mental health:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.08177 , https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.17550 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.09343 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19218

Content homogenization, quality dilution, AI slop:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5367123 , https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adn5290 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09747 , https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.07532 , https://ahrefs.com/blog/what-percentage-of-new-content-is-ai-generated/

AI fueling the digital addition, distraction economy:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.02528 , The AI-mediated intimacy economy: a paradigm shift in digital interactions

Salesforce says 30-40% of work is done by AI:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-26/salesforce-ceo-says-30-of-internal-work-is-being-handled-by-ai
Gartner Agentic AI report:
https://www.gartner.com/en/newsroom/press-releases/2025-06-25-gartner-predicts-over-40-percent-of-agentic-ai-projects-will-be-canceled-by-end-of-2027

Microsoft Study - top 40 jobs with highest AI applicability, NOT highest replacement risk: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935

LinkedIn founder says GPT-5 is "Superintelligence":
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/reidhoffman_gpt-5-is-out-and-while-i-could-write-pages-activity-7359329865600286720-ePy5
Sam Altman says GPT-5 is major advancement, not AGI:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-gpt-5-agi-2025-8
Apple study - Limitations in reasoning models:
https://ml-site.cdn-apple.com/papers/the-illusion-of-thinking.pdf

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