Vancouver AI Meetup: November 2025

The November 26 Vancouver AI Community Meetup paired a personal account of AI voice abuse with a panel on AI’s climate impact, asking how creative power can be weighed against resource costs and public accountability. Five public videos and a 20-photo Michelle Diamond selection preserve the program at the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre.

The full event recording follows the whole night. Its title, Creative Power vs. Planetary Limits, names the tension that carried through the program: AI systems can extend creative work while also raising questions about energy, water, incentives, and responsibility.

An opening and a personal account

The public archive begins with an opening segment featuring Is’gh’li-ya Anthony Joseph. The video holds the complete public context for that part of the program.

Amanda Silvera described how her voice was cloned and abused online. She called for policy, detection tools, and community action to protect creators. Her session grounds the broad issue of biometric identity in a documented personal experience, then points toward several kinds of response rather than a single technical fix.

The recording is especially useful because it keeps the sequence intact: a speaker’s account of harm, the protections she advocates, and the wider questions that follow when creative tools can reproduce a person’s voice. Viewers can hear those distinctions in Silvera’s own presentation instead of relying on a compressed summary.

Creative power and planetary limits

The AI and Climate Impact panel framed AI as a double-edged climate tool. The public description records three points of emphasis: accountability for resource costs, transparency about those costs, and incentives that support better choices. The panel places environmental questions beside creative and technical opportunity, keeping both parts of the event’s central tension visible.

The night’s community announcements form a separate part of the archive, documenting updates and upcoming initiatives alongside the main talks.

The visual archive

The event page shows 20 photographs credited to Michelle Diamond. The manifest credits Michelle Diamond for every selected image, and the wider public index contains 207 photographs. The gallery records the stage, speakers, and exchanges around a program whose video archive is organized by topic.

There are two clear ways into the record. Start with Amanda Silvera’s session and move to the climate panel to compare personal, policy, and environmental responsibility. Or watch the full recording to retain the opening, announcements, and transitions around those talks. Either route keeps the source material available for viewers to assess directly.