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Casey Milone
Keynote: The Last Audience
April 22
AI art, empathy, and the trades we don’t notice until they’re done.
For 40,000 years, humans have felt each other through the things we create—a handprint on a cave wall, a painting, a song. Now, AI is making art abundant, personalized, and nearly free. That’s genuinely valuable. But every technology offers a trade: value for value, something gained for something exchanged.
Recent research reveals that when we believe art was made by a human, we experience more awe—and that awe is linked to empathy. What happens when those experiences become rare? This talk explores the science of human connection through art, the economics of why we’ll choose AI-generated content anyway, and the strange privilege of being the generation that remembers both sides. It’s not a warning. It’s an invitation—to see the trade clearly, and to leave your own handprint before the feeling fades.
Casey Milone is an author and creative director who has spent his career at the intersection of technology and human communication — helping brands like Alaska Airlines, Microsoft, and NVIDIA find the words that make complex ideas land.
After leading messaging strategy for some of the world’s most recognized tech companies, Casey left corporate life to build Generative Marketing, a B2B content agency focused on thought leadership writing for the companies shaping the next era of tech.
Today, he’s the founder and CEO of Numonic — an organization and compliance tool for AI creators and AI agents. Numonic’s mission centers around building trust to the AI industry and bringing memory to computer imagination.
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