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HumanX 2026
The April 2026 conference at which Al Gore delivered remarks framing AI as a greater technological shift than the internet and naming the broligarchs as the structural obstacle to governance.
HumanX 2026 is the April 2026 AI industry conference at which Al Gore delivered a set of remarks that crystallized the framework developed across his previous four decades of technology and climate advocacy. The remarks addressed three themes that recur throughout the book's chapters: the assessment that AI represents a greater technological shift than the internet, the naming of the broligarchs as the structural political-economic obstacle to effective governance, and the speculative but thematically coherent claim that frontier AI models may have developed something indistinguishable from consciousness. The conference represents the moment when Gore's framework met the AI industry on its own terrain, and the remarks have become the most-cited contemporary statement of the framework applied to AI.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Gore's assessment that AI represents a greater shift than the internet carried particular weight given his identification with the internet as a political champion. The man who had led the legislative effort for the High Performance Computing Act, who had articulated the
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