Techartist, quasi-sage, cyberpunk anti-hero from the future. Sandboxing AI w/ Kris Krüg - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver Founder, CEO - Future Proof Creatives Host - Vancouver AI Community Meetupshttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m5squgzyv42tDarby Yule surveyed Gen Z to late millennials about music's next five years. They want "hybrid human-AI genres with soulful textures and algorithmic precision." They want vulnerability. They want bruises in their euphoria.17 Nov 2025 07:58 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5squgzyv42thttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m5qclbbnha2pWhile Silicon Valley builds another recommendation engine, Scott Larson asks the real question: Why did 1000+ people answer a music survey in the age of Spotify surveillance? Immortality? Recognition? Fifty bucks?16 Nov 2025 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5qclbbnha2phttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m2wd6gwuob2fBC could be running AI on clean hydro while everyone else burns coal. We have the water. The power. The talent. Just need the infrastructure investment to match.Ottawa listening for 3 more weeks. Worth telling them what we actually need? https://vancouver.bc-ai.net/canadas-ai-strategy-task-force #CleanCompute #AIStrategy11 Oct 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2wd6gwuob2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m2mbcml3us2qThe ED + AI initiative inside BC + AI brings people together to slow down, compare notes, and design with care: consent‑first, equity‑minded, place‑rooted. We’re here to weave practical tools with ethical guardrails so classrooms, after‑school programs, and community labs thrive. https://luma.com/AI-EDU07 Oct 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2mbcml3us2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m27oxyyvrm2fSurrey’s AI scene is on the rise. From artists to engineers, students to policy nerds—we’re weaving a mycelial network across BC. Be part of it Oct 14. Royal Canadian Legion #8. 6-9 PM. Because AI isn’t just tech... it’s community. 🎟 luma.com/surrey-AI02 Oct 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27oxyyvrm2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3m22wpgbk3e27We didn’t wait for permission or a perfect plan.... we started meeting up, sharing tools, asking better questions, and building in public. That’s how BC + AI Ecosystem Association came to life: a member-powered, place-based AI community that puts people over hype. https://creativemornings.com/talks/cheyenne-rouleau30 Sep 2025 16:23 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3m22wpgbk3e27https://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lzj2rxb3eo23Live from Vancouver: our SIGGRAPH mini report. • Generative VFX workflow (Stable Diffusion → Nuke) • “Creative” no-code engine: procedural worlds, physics, AI text-to-scene, one-click publishing If you’re exploring AI as a production co-pilot in VFX or gamedev, this one’s for you.23 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lzj2rxb3eo23https://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lypw4hpy562eVancouver AI Hackathon winners turn BC + AI Ecosystem survey data into stories: one builds semantic maps, another an AGI-style data interface, and one drops a full generative album. Hackathon winners video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0Tz4dkFE13 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lypw4hpy562ehttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lynfnl47v52aAI projects don’t fail for model reasons they fail for people reasons. Peter Bitner on literacy, culture, and skills that still pay rent. #VancouverAI #FutureOfWork #AILiteracy Watch the meetup talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqTduAuk7Q12 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lynfnl47v52ahttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3ly3sf4hjv42mKey takeaways from Jos Duncan at Vancouver AI: • Publish a clear AI ethics policy • Name the externalities and who bears them. • Align personal ethics with org policy. • Advocate: educate, make collective demands, uplift good actors. Full video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noI6xFJ13sM05 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ly3sf4hjv42mhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lxzbw7oma32eVancouver AI tested a new civic design tool: guided meditation built from public data... we breathed, listened, and visualized BC’s AI future encoding ethics, sustainability, radical inclusion, and creativity into memory and action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBLFTRui_004 Sep 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxzbw7oma32ehttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lwnt3fd2v52jEric Schmidt (ex-Google CEO) just admitted the US needs 92 gigawatts of new power just for AI. That's 92 nuclear plants. They've built 2 in the last 30 years. Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.18 Aug 2025 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwnt3fd2v52jhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lw47swdq752xMeet Loki Jorgensen... physicist turned AI philosopher and co-lead of our Mind, AI & Consciousness crew. He cuts past buzzwords to the hard stuff - What is mind? - How would we know if a system is conscious? - What should never be automated, no matter how “smart” it gets? youtu.be/u9cmPUYRpdY https://youtu.be/u9cmPUYRpdY11 Aug 2025 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lw47swdq752xhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lvsuugap5e2vEthics by Default, sass by design: we turned GPT gibberish into interpretive dance... catch the proof in 120 seconds of community chaos (ಠ‿ಠ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct81aNlpnXM07 Aug 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvsuugap5e2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lvnwcn4e2c2352 shots, 1 keeper. Most people are still perfecting their ‘About’ page. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-XdyWpivNI05 Aug 2025 14:30 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvnwcn4e2c23https://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lvds2yfadl2vThe real risk with AI? That the benefits don’t reach everyone. So we built this thing to make sure it does. That means working with Indigenous nations, creatives, researchers, the whole damn crew.01 Aug 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvds2yfadl2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lvbbm5n27g2eI dare you to find an ai tech scene this quirky, open, and hilarious. Open mics, AI dream logs, tie-dye shirts, and people who’d rather pass the mic than talk over you. If you only watch one thing from the last Vancouver AI community meeetup night, make it this: youtu.be/-YG-aIvq8U831 Jul 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvbbm5n27g2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lv62mkjodc2fNot every week you pick a guy up at YVR after a 17-hour flight, hand him a chai, and end up swapping stories that go way deeper than business. Vippal came to Vancouver for Web Summiut with a trunk full of AI sensor shoes and left with a bigger crew and a real friend.30 Jul 2025 07:05 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv62mkjodc2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lv4aoa4mxh2oTech is easy... building a new life from scratch is fuckin' hard. Viktor does both, and still manages to catch everyone’s weirdest, proudest moments on for the gram. Glad you made it Vitya. Here’s to more road trips and all-night edits. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2NKLdboWE29 Jul 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lv4aoa4mxh2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3luyzc2njpb2uPatterns repeat, but every now and then... someone bends the loop.28 Jul 2025 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3luyzc2njpb2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3luwkyu6oez2mCanada’s new AI Minister says step one is deregulation. Step two? Military investment. That’s who’s writing the rules. Unless we show up and write different ones. Join the builders. The educators. The resistors. The artists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtSPcpRinI27 Jul 2025 07:37 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3luwkyu6oez2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lui4wyzqyr2v⟦ multi-modal, multi-cultural, radically local, and future-facing ⟧ vancouver.bc-ai.net/ecosystem https://vancouver.bc-ai.net/ecosystem21 Jul 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lui4wyzqyr2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lu633ivfkb2nDo you ever get the feeling we're playing the wrong game? Like we've all been tricked into thinking being human is about running hyper-intellectual software, becoming flesh-and-bone Excel spreadsheets? is.kriskrug.ai/basscoast-2025 https://is.kriskrug.ai/basscoast-202517 Jul 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lu633ivfkb2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3ltqsj7o7tw2jI've spent the past two years creating 50+ custom AIs for entrepreneurs, artists, indigenous communities, and corporate disruptors—systems that know them, their voice, and their mission. https://kriskrug.beehiiv.com/p/ai-upgrade-fall-202512 Jul 2025 07:10 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltqsj7o7tw2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lthyqqblbu2hRegistration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge. https://kriskrug.co/2025/07/08/ai-training-for-media-pr-and-creative-professionals/08 Jul 2025 19:07 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lthyqqblbu2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lt4pfdgsxe2qWe gathered rebels, researchers & relatives under the H.R. MacMillan “UFO” dome. We opened with Tsleil‑Waututh ceremony, closed with a 12‑year‑old turning his dreams into Roblox levels — and in between we re‑imagined what ethical, creative AI could look like in BC. 🔗 https://rss.com/podcasts/motleykrug/210088104 Jul 2025 07:21 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt4pfdgsxe2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lt2ukmynxx2lProud to announce the winner of the Vancouver AI Data Storytelling Hackathon Round 2: Canadian Identity Simulator by Matt Sinclair-Foreman.03 Jul 2025 13:48 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lt2ukmynxx2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lssmakq7hi2jMorton Rand-Hendrickson showed us the nightmare: MCP servers doing things you can't see, buried in agentic loops, with no audit trail. "Something happened. There was a consequence. Hopefully it was the right one."30 Jun 2025 06:58 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lssmakq7hi2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lsokdair5z22We’re gathering under starlight to calibrate the future. Mission 19 is a field test for collective intelligence. If you’re ready to question every default setting (including your own), orbit the Space Centre July 30.28 Jun 2025 16:13 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsokdair5z22https://bsky.app/profile/krug.bsky.social/post/3lseqp6wpso23Stop waiting for the perfect tool or policy. This is what’s working now. Get yer hands dirty—or get comfortable being obsolete. https://kriskrug.co/2025/06/24/what-journalists-need-to-know-about-ai-right-now/24 Jun 2025 18:40 +0000at://did:plc:2v353bdfansupqrfoscgsaj5/app.bsky.feed.post/3lseqp6wpso23