An artistic-cultural project on how we should, and can, think together with artificial intelligence. Performed live on stages worldwide.
The challenge
The great challenge of this era isn't technological. It's creative.
Everyone's talking about what artificial intelligence can do. Almost no one stops to ask what it's doing to us.
If there's one thing that will certainly never exist in AI, it's humanity. And creative thinking is the most human thing there is - the most unique, the most impossible to replicate.
AI is a powerful force. But that very same force, when used wrong, weakens us. We grow accustomed, addicted to speed, to ease, to the first answer, the easy one, the available one. We stop stretching the muscle, and we stop thinking.
And this isn't a slogan. Studies from the past year reveal a phenomenon called cognitive offloading - the unloading of mental work onto external tools. Various studies have found a clear link between frequent AI use and a decline in critical thinking. And the young are hit hardest of all.
But here's the interesting part: it isn't the technology. It's how you use it. Those very same studies show that when AI use is active, structured, and reflective, it doesn't atrophy us. It amplifies. It makes people sharper, not lazier.
A society that stops thinking stops inventing. Stops creating. Stops moving forward.
The project
A laboratory for
leading the tools
THE HUMAN EDGE is an artistic-cultural project that sets out to show how we should, and can, think together with artificial intelligence. An experiential performance testing the limits of technology in the world of art.
A laboratory where new technologies are constantly tested across the worlds of music, visuals, art, cinema, etc., and out of them a whole way of thinking is revealed: how to take creativity to its edge, what to ask, and how to adopt new patterns of thought in order to lead the tools instead of being dragged behind them.
The Experiments
The second format
Duets
Two crafts, one stage, made live
A second way to bring the project to a stage: Yaki doesn't come alone. Each show hosts a guest from a different world - music, humor, art, cinema, science - and together they build something live, in front of the audience.
The guest brings their craft. Yaki brings the tools and the way of thinking. What happens between them is the experiment: a piece, a bit, an image, a song that neither of them could have made alone.
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Yaki
Gani
Yaki Gani is a musician, tech entrepreneur, and AI artist who lives simultaneously in the worlds of music, high-tech, and innovation and connects them into something no one else is doing.
As a musician, Gani is playing in "Rockfour", one of Israel's most acclaimed psychedelic rock bands for over twenty years. In parallel, he built an entire career of entrepreneurship at the intersection of creative and technology: co-founder of the interactive content company The Box, of the voice-based social network HearMeOut, and of the tech guitar company OMB Guitars. In 2012 he founded the innovation agency STUFF, which guides large organizations through innovation processes.
In recent years, Gani has become one of Israel's leading voices in creative AI. He founded the conference series "Hakol Mebina," which connects cultural creation with artificial intelligence, and has presented his AI projects live on stages around the world - from major cultural events (such as Pecha Kucha) to leading tech conferences.
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Conferences, festivals, company events, and cultural institutions - anywhere in the world. Talks, live performances, the Duets format, and hands-on workshops, in English or Hebrew.
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