Automation anxiety is getting a conference of its own—except the organizers want attendees to treat it as an opening, not an obituary for human work.

Every announced Thesis: 2027, its inaugural annual gathering, for November 5, 2026, at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn. The one-day event is designed to bring frontier-lab leaders, tool builders and company operators into the same room around a deliberately broad question: “What does great human work look like after automation?”¹

The launch arrives amid familiar fears that AI will replace jobs, weaken thinking and compromise data. Every acknowledges those concerns, but argues that a smaller, dispersed cohort is already using the tools for “more ambitious, more creative, and more interesting human work.”¹ Its answer is an intimate, application-based conference—also livestreamed free—where participants can compare what is working beyond the usual futurist predictions.

By 2027, organizers argue, the center of gravity will move from execution to judgment. “AI progress creates more work for humans, not less,” the event page says; people will spend more time deciding what matters, thinking creatively and building what comes next.² That optimistic premise does not erase skepticism: the conference says informed skeptics are welcome, provided they know the tools and remain open to a positive AI future.²

The program reflects that tension between grand claims and practical use. Roughly 400 founders, executives and builders are expected for keynotes, debates, executive roundtables, workshops and office hours. Speakers include Notion chief executive Ivan Zhao, OpenAI Codex technical staff member Andrew Ambrosino, Anthropic’s head of applied AI Cat de Jong, Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson and Runway co-founder Cristóbal Valenzuela.¹

Every has also framed the gathering as a public argument rather than a single forecast. Its rolling “Thesis Statements” collection ranges from the claim that answers will become cheap and questions valuable to predictions that “wisdom work” will replace knowledge work and that visibly excellent jobs will endure.³ On November 5, those competing bets will be tested face-to-face in Brooklyn.