What can 160-million-year-old clay tell us about AI and ethics? Inside Es Devlin’s tech and pottery summit

The great artist and designer has summoned spiritual leaders, AI researchers and academics to try their hands at ceramics - and debate their wide-ranging positions on where tech is taking humanity Es Devlin owns a really great bell. It’s a singing bowl - originally used in Buddhist chanting rituals but now found in most quality yoga classes. This particular bell hits just the right frequency to make my temples vibrate pleasantly and, from the way the others gathered around the workbench at Oxford Kilns fall silent when Devlin strikes it, I don’t think I’m alone in feeling my head go ping.