AI Palace

Welcome to AI PAlace

applications for 2025 coming soon

Get lost in the past to incubate ideas for the future.

Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 10-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.

Dates: Friday, August 1 - Sunday, August 10
Location: Bückeburg Palace, Germany (1 hour outside of Hanover)
Style: unconference
Number of attendees: ~35
Costs: None, accommodation and food included

Will there be one winner in AI, or many?

What are the new (and old) business models of AI?

What would it look like to open-source or decentralize layers of the AI stack?

What new institutions will shape the future of the AI industry?

During the 10-day residency we will probe these and other questions, challenging each other’s assumptions and our own assumptions. We’ll debate guidelines, philosophies, business models, and standards. We might even build prototypes, write white papers, and launch new companies.

You can find more questions contributed by last year’s participants here.

Join Us

August 1-10

Applications Closed

Feel free to DM one of us (see below) and tell us why this event can’t happen without you!

The Court

Nick Vincent

LEVERSMITH
Professor of data pipelines; building levers so we can all copilot AI
Twitter: @nickmvincent
Joshua Tan

MONK OF MANY WORLDS
Mathematician, AI XOR governance
Twitter: @joshuaztan @metagov_project
Divya Siddarth

POLYCENTRIX
Political economist and utopian (despite it all)
Twitter: @divyasiddarth @collect_intel
Donatus (Teddy) Schaumburg-Lippe

DAUPHIN DE DAO
IRL Royal Prince, activator of projects, seer of the future
Twitter: @schaumburgd
Primavera di Filippi

WIZARD OF VIBES
Extitutional being, community builder, legal hacker & artist
Twitter: @yaoeo
Allison Duettmann

FORESIGHTED LEPRECHAUN
Bio, nano, neuro, ai, space for xhope
Twitter: @allisondman @foresightinst
Michael Zargham

ARCHBISHOP OF AUTOMATION
Dynamical systems, block diagrams, digital civil engineer
Twitter: @mzargham
Bobi Rakova

SPECULATIVE FRICTIONIST
AI, friction, social norms and agreements, computable law, consent, contestability,
Twitter: @bobirakova
Saffron Huang

AGALMIC ALCHEMIST
Possibility seeker, computer whisperer, writer, fun maxxer
Twitter: @saffronhuang
Ben Fielding

DECENTRALISER OF AI
Machine learner, researcher, founder: giving everyone permissionless access to machine learning hardware
Twitter: @fenbielding @gensynai
Andrew Peek

OCULUS
Entrepreneur at the intersection of Blockchain and AI
Twitter: @drupeek

The Location

Built over 700 years ago, the Bueckeburg Palace in Germany still serves as the home for the royal family of Schaumburg-Lippe, once reigning princes over the small sovereign state of the same name.

Throughout the years, it has hosted artists, dictators, rebels, scientists, entrepreneurs, and several historical figures including Napoleon Bonaparte, Kaiser Wilhelm the Second, and Mikhael Gorbachev.

Through war and peace, through revolutions political and technological, it has served as a reminder that history is ever-changing and that power is meant to be challenged.