Zen & AI — Building Human-Centered AI with Paul Teyssier

🤖 Join us for our ongoing AI series!

Part of Zen Work Lab — a community exploring Zen and working life in Silicon Valley.

This month, our guest speaker is Paul Teyssier, who currently leads Product & Design at Cohere, one of the world’s leading AI companies. Previously, he led Product at Front and served as President of Superhuman, the high-performance email platform.

Paul brings a distinctive perspective to the AI conversation. Rather than approaching AI primarily as a research breakthrough, he has spent his career focused on turning emerging technologies into products that people and organizations can genuinely trust, adopt, and benefit from. His experience sits at the intersection of product design, leadership, and technological transformation.

Paul will share how his Zen practice has influenced his vision of AI, what it means to create technology in service of human flourishing, and how contemplative practice and technological innovation can inform one another.

The evening includes:

🧘 A 10-minute silent meditation

🎤 A guest talk introducing the evening’s theme

💬 A group discussion

🍵 A relaxed tea and snack gathering to continue the conversation

Join us at Kannon Do Zen Meditation Center, a historic space that has quietly welcomed some of Silicon Valley’s most influential minds, including Steve Jobs.

If the meetup is full, you can still show up!