Unlearn the Internet—Unleash Unofficial Intelligence

For 15 years, MozFest has championed bold conversations that reimagine technology’s role in our lives. But what if the most radical act of resistance isn’t building better AI—it’s unleashing the chaotic, irreplaceable power of human conversation?

The People Speak returns to MozFest with Talkaoke—a live talk show, where you decide on the direction of the conversation. Instead of Artificial Intelligence we champion Unofficial Intelligence, the antidote to artificial thinking. No algorithms. No optimization. No AI-generated answers. Just humans, microphones, and the messy, generative chaos that machines can never replicate.

While Silicon Valley promises AI will solve everything, we’re becoming dumber, lonelier, and more polarized by outsourcing our thinking to bots. Talkaoke fights back with the oldest technology we have: face-to-face dialogue where half-formed thoughts, wild tangents, and creative disagreement build collective intelligence that no ChatGPT prompt could ever generate.

Picture this: an illuminated round table where hierarchy dissolves. A host in the center keeps the energy flowing while you and fellow MozFest-goers grab the mic to explore whatever’s on your mind—the future of the internet, digital rights, technology’s unintended consequences, or something completely unexpected. Topics emerge organically, shifting from profound to playful, serious to surreal. You don’t need polished talking points or expert credentials. Spontaneous thinking is the point. Disagreement is encouraged. Listening counts as participation.

For three decades, The People Speak has wielded creativity as a weapon against algorithmic dominance, proving that conversation itself is an art form—a space where new ideas emerge through collective imagination, not information retrieval. At a festival dedicated to unlearning the internet, Talkaoke offers what technology has commodified and AI threatens to replace: genuine human connection, unscripted and unoptimized.

In Barcelona this November, reclaim what the robots want: your voice, your attention, your capacity for thinking together badly, beautifully, and completely off-script. Join us at the table. Set the agenda. Help us prove that the smartest intelligence is still gloriously, defiantly unofficial.