2026-07-09 –, Forest Pavillion
The Vatican recently weighed in on artificial intelligence with its new reflection, Antiqua et Nova, asking how AI can serve human dignity and the common good. But if you had the chance to sit down with Pope Leo, what would you want him to hear from the DWeb community?
Join Daniel Erasmus, creator of Climate GPT, for an informal conversation in the woods. Daniel has been invited as a delegate to join other AI experts in discussions at the Vatican about the future of AI (https://globalnobelassembly.org/), and is inviting everyone into the conversation. What hopes, concerns, and ideas would you bring? How can AI empower people instead of concentrating power? What wisdom should guide the next generation of intelligent systems?
The assembly will work towards the Rome Declaration-Nobel Laureates, scientific experts, policy makers, and faith leaders will gather at the Borgo Laudato Si' in the Vatican. Together, they will work to draft the Rome Declaration on an Unarmed and Disarming Peace, establishing new digital protocols to govern AI in strategic and nuclear systems.
Come pull up a chair under the trees and help shape the conversation.
Daniel Erasmus, head of Erasmus.AI and the ClimateGPT Foundation, has two decades of experience in collecting and processing planetary scale datasets. He leads the team developing ClimateGTP's foundational and fine-tuned model family, which is the world’s first foundational AI model family focussed on effects of Climate Change on Human Systems
Daniel is also Head of AI for Internet Archive Europe, releasing several public purpose models via Hugging Face. He is a member of the OECD AI Expert Group, and a Full Member of the global think tank, the Club of Rome.
For 25 years, Erasmus worked with governments and Fortune 50 companies by leading global foresight research as co-founder of The Digital Thinking Network. The DTN led scenario and innovation breakthrough processes anticipating the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Oil Price Collapse, and it created the first Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).
Additionally as a response to Covid, Daniel was instrumental in creating an initiative that has sponsored 100 million meals in Southern Africa.
Born in South Africa, Daniel lives in Amsterdam with his wife Elisabeth, three daughters and a son. He can be found in his office in Amsterdam or on planes, trains and cafes with a laptop, a bowl of matcha, and a yearning for the warm plains of Africa.