Kris Krüg
@krug.bsky.social
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 Meetups
Sandboxing AI w/ Kris Krüg - The Early Edition - CBC Radio One Vancouver
Founder, CEO - Future Proof Creatives
Host - Vancouver AI Community Meetups
Darby 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.
They want "hybrid human-AI genres with soulful textures and algorithmic precision." They want vulnerability. They want bruises in their euphoria.
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Darby 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.
They want "hybrid human-AI genres with soulful textures and algorithmic precision." They want vulnerability. They want bruises in their euphoria.
While 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?
Immortality? Recognition? Fifty bucks?
November 16, 2025 at 8:37 AM
While 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?
Immortality? Recognition? Fifty bucks?
BC 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? vancouver.bc-ai.net/canadas-ai-s... #CleanCompute #AIStrategy
BC + AI’s Platform for Canada’s AI Task Force | BC + AI Ecosystem
If Ottawa’s foot is on the gas, BC is the brake and steering: ethics, open protocols, and land-rooted practice in every build.
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October 11, 2025 at 1:48 PM
BC 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? vancouver.bc-ai.net/canadas-ai-s... #CleanCompute #AIStrategy
The 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.
We’re here to weave practical tools with ethical guardrails so classrooms, after‑school programs, and community labs thrive.
AI in Education Meetup #2 · Luma
AI is already in the hallways, homework tabs, and makerspaces. Let’s gather to trade what works, laugh at what didn’t, and shape a BC‑rooted path…
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October 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The 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.
We’re here to weave practical tools with ethical guardrails so classrooms, after‑school programs, and community labs thrive.
Surrey’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-AI
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-AI
October 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Surrey’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-AI
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-AI
We 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.
Cheyenne Rouleau | CreativeMornings/Vancouver
IMPORTANT INFORMATION Vancouver Art Gallery has limited seating capacity, so please do not register if you cannot commit to being present. If you have regist...
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September 30, 2025 at 4:23 PM
We 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.
Live 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.
• 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.
September 23, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Live 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.
• 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.
Vancouver 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0...
Hackathon winners video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0...
Vancouver AI Hackathon Winners: Data Maps, Real-Time AGI Interfaces & a Community Album
- Join the BC AI Ecosystem Association: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
- Next Vancouver AI meetup: https://luma.com/vancouver-ai
Vancouver AI Hackathon winners turn BC survey data into stories—one…
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September 13, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vancouver 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0...
Hackathon winners video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywz0...
AI 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqT...
Peter Bitner on literacy, culture, and skills that still pay rent.
#VancouverAI #FutureOfWork #AILiteracy
Watch the meetup talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqT...
Peter Bitner on the Future of Work, Upskilling & Real-World Adoption | Vancouver AI Community Meetup
Join the BC AI Ecosystem Association: https://bc-ai.ca/membership/
Next Vancouver AI meetup: https://luma.com/vancouver-ai
What actually changes at work when the AI buzz fades? Peter Bitner maps the…
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September 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
AI 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqT...
Peter Bitner on literacy, culture, and skills that still pay rent.
#VancouverAI #FutureOfWork #AILiteracy
Watch the meetup talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUqT...
Key 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noI6...
• 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noI6...
Ethical AI: Advocacy, Love & Community Care | Jos Duncan-Ase
What does it mean to “put love in the code” and the policy? A powerful Vancouver AI meetup talk: Jos Duncan (Love Now Media) shares a community-first path to ethical AI grounded in love,…
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September 5, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Key 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noI6...
• 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: www.youtube.com/watch?v=noI6...
Vancouver 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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
September 4, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Vancouver 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
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPBL...
Eric 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.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
August 18, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Eric 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.
Sam Altman's response? Invest in small modular reactors so tech companies can build private nuclear plants.
Meet 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
- 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
Mind, AI & Consciousness - Community Spotlight: Loki Jorgensen
Consciousness isn’t a feature. It’s the knife we’re holding by the blade.
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August 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Meet 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
- 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
Ethics by Default, sass by design: we turned GPT gibberish into interpretive dance... catch the proof in 120 seconds of community chaos (ಠ‿ಠ)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct81...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct81...
Vancouver AI Community Recap: July 2025
Join Vancouver's most authentic AI community for our 19th monthly gathering! This meetup featured Squamish Nation cultural advisor Jonathan Williams opening with traditional ceremony, Surrey AI crew…
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August 7, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Ethics by Default, sass by design: we turned GPT gibberish into interpretive dance... catch the proof in 120 seconds of community chaos (ಠ‿ಠ)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct81...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ct81...
52 shots, 1 keeper. Most people are still perfecting their ‘About’ page.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Xd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Xd...
I Built 52 Startups in 52 Weeks with AI Coding Agents - Here's What Actually Works
TLDR: Serial builder who shut down AI 51 startups shares brutal truth about AI coding - more output doesn't mean better outcomes.
Michael Yagudaev drops unfiltered truth about AI coding at Vancouver…
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August 5, 2025 at 2:30 PM
52 shots, 1 keeper. Most people are still perfecting their ‘About’ page.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Xd...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Xd...
The 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.
August 1, 2025 at 1:48 PM
The 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.
I 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-aIvq8U8
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-aIvq8U8
July 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
I 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-aIvq8U8
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-aIvq8U8
Not 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.
July 30, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Not 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.
Tech 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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2N...
Building Creative AI Community The Art of AI Documentary Filmmaking
Inside Vancouver’s exploding AI creative scene, there’s one name you’ll always find behind the camera: Victor Serbin. In this raw, off-script episode, Victor sits down with Kris Krüg—pulling back the curtain on what it actually takes to build, remember, and elevate a true AI community through documentary filmmaking.
From all-nighters in the edit cave to breakthrough moments on the event floor, Victor’s vision is a masterclass in how storytelling, creative tech, and authentic community all feed each other.
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July 29, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Tech 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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2N...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yc2N...
Patterns repeat, but every now and then... someone bends the loop.
July 28, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Patterns repeat, but every now and then... someone bends the loop.
Canada’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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtS...
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtS...
Dear AI, Before We Go Any Further... We Need To Talk About Your Soul
This film drops you inside my unscripted workshop at Bass Coast Festival 2025—a geodesic think-tank where ravers, coders, teachers, and artists cracked open AI’s promise and peril.
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July 27, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Canada’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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtS...
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.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=owtS...
Do 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?
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is.kriskrug.ai/basscoast-2025
BLOG: Dear AI, We Need To Talk About Your Soul | Kris Krüg
How an experimental circle at Bass Coast Festival hacked the narrative on AI, shifting from fear to empowered stewardship.
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July 17, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Do 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
is.kriskrug.ai/basscoast-2025
I'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.
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AI Upgrade Labs for the Wild, the Restless, and the Ready
Fall 2025 AI Training Cohorts Launched
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July 12, 2025 at 7:10 AM
I'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.
kriskrug.beehiiv.com/p/ai-upgrade...
kriskrug.beehiiv.com/p/ai-upgrade...
Registration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge.
AI Training for Media, PR, and Creative Professionals
Registration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge. If you’re skeptical? Even better—every alumni in these quotes started right there.
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July 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Registration for all tracks is open now. Bring your team, or come solo. Just bring your curiosity and your edge.