Futurist, Award-Winning Storyteller and Strategist
Taryn Southern: Biography at a Glance
- Taryn Southern is a pioneering storyteller known for her work at the intersection of emerging technology, creativity, and human potential. She is passionate about helping people “future-proof” their lives with AI and other emerging technologies.
- As an early content creator on YouTube, Taryn garnered more than 750 million views on YouTube and advised Fortune 500 companies (ie. Marriott, Condé Nast) on digital content strategy.
- Taryn’s work with AI began in 2017 with a groundbreaking creative experiment - to compose an entire music album with AI. The result, I AM AI, was said to be the first AI pop album and hit the Top 100 of the US Radio Charts in 2018.
- In addition, Taryn’s Tribeca Film Festival premiering documentary, I AM HUMAN, explores the jaw-dropping possibilities of brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) — and the larger implications we must consider.
- As Chief Storytelling Officer at a leading neurotech company, Taryn has a front row seat to the future. She oversees special projects for patients with neurological disorders who use BCIs to control external digital devices such as computers or robotic arms — just by thinking.
- As a stage 3 breast cancer survivor, Taryn is passionate about how AI can be applied to mental health and wellbeing.
Media
- Official Site
- Taryn's YouTube
- Meet Taryn Southern
- BBC: Do you think AI has made you a better artist?
- Catch: The world's first AI-composed music album is here, and it sounds amazing
- The Verge: I Am Human is a tech doc with a refreshing focus on people
- Tech Crunch: Algo-Rhythms: The future of album collaboration
- TODAY: Music made by machines? Inside the latest revolution in music
- Forbes: Taryn Southern: How This YouTube Star Used AI For Her New Album
- NBC: AI-generated music growing exponentially, sparking debate
Videos
Biography
Taryn Southern is an award-winning storyteller and creative technologist exploring the intersection of emerging tech and human potential. Her groundbreaking creative experiments blend technological innovation with the human experience, offering unique insights into how we can engage technology to lead more creative, joyful, healthy, and productive lives.
A true digital media pioneer, Taryn’s career began at the forefront of the online content revolution. In 2007, she hosted and produced a TV series documenting her travels to meet MySpace friends and uploaded her first viral video to YouTube. Over the next decade, she created over 1500 videos garnering more than 1 billion views.
In 2017, Taryn began experimenting with emerging technologies to push the boundaries of her creative work. She composed the world’s first AI album, which landed on the Top 100 US Radio Charts and received widespread media attention. She then combined VR, blockchain, AI, and spatial computing to create an award-winning Google VR series, earning her the AT&T Film Award. Her directorial debut, “I AM HUMAN,” a documentary on brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), premiered at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, won numerous awards, and is now available on Apple and Amazon.
Since 2021, Taryn has served as Chief Storyteller at a leading implantable neurotechnology company, where she launched the world’s first BCI museum and oversaw communications strategy for two successful funding rounds totaling over $250M+. An advocate of women in science and tech, she has also angel invested in future-forward companies such as Oura, Etched, Extend Fertility, Vessel Health, and Forever Labs.
Taryn’s creative expertise spans both traditional and new media. She has guest-starred on primetime network TV shows, sold a musical comedy pilot to MTV, co-hosted Discovery Channel’s #1 late-night show, and created digital series for Conde Naste, AirBnB, The Today Show, Snapchat, and Maker Studios. She was an early advisor to YouTube, Google VR, and Snapchat product teams, and consulted for companies like Conde Nast and Marriott on their digital content strategy and narrative design.
A three-time Streamy Awards nominee, Taryn received the Geena Davis Award in 2018 for her work as an innovative female filmmaker. Her contributions have been featured in Vanity Fair, Billboard, Fast Company, Wired, Forbes, Psychology Today, and Harvard Business Review, shaping the discourse on technology’s role in our lives.
Topics
Superhuman: The Future of Human and AI Collaboration
Taryn Southern has always had a front row seat to the future. As one of YouTube’s first breakout creators, she helped redefine what it meant to be a storyteller in the digital age. Years later, she pushed new boundaries—releasing the world’s first pop album composed with AI, joining one of the world’s leading brain-computer interface companies as Chief Storytelling Officer, and creating a digital clone of herself. Then, in 2020, while facing cancer, job loss, and profound personal upheaval, Taryn began a series of unconventional experiments using emerging technologies not just to create, but to heal, rebuild, and reimagine what’s possible. In this session, Taryn invites audiences into that journey. Drawing from neuroscience, real-world applications, and her own lived experience, she shares mind-blowing examples of real-world AI applications that reduce friction, expands creative potential, and reignites the human imagination—offering a framework of personal transformation for both your business and life.
You’ll explore:
- The way emerging tech can shape the future of work, play, and education
- The neuroscience of creativity and the possibilities unlocked when human ingenuity intersects with AI
- Practical insights to uplevel your life
Unlock Creativity & Bold Storytelling with AI
Pioneering content creator and award-winning AI artist Taryn Southern has worked at the intersection of transformative technology and storytelling for more than a decade. From releasing the world’s first solo pop album composed with AI to directing an award-winning film on the future of human and artificial intelligence, Taryn shares the key lessons for optimizing individual and collective creativity and demonstrates how you can use AI to craft powerful, imaginative stories.
You’ll explore:
- Practical lessons for creating attention-grabbing, human-centric stories
- The way to shape the future through messaging
- The neuroscience of creativity and how to improve your storytelling AI
The Future *Isn’t* What You Think
Award-winning documentarian and futurist Taryn Southern has spent the past decade working at the intersection of science and storytelling – and she’s here to tell you the future isn’t what you think…or maybe it is. With the power of machine learning and neurotechnology, concepts such as telepathy, telekinesis, and decoding dreams are no longer the work of science fiction. In this highly visual and powerful keynote, Southern offers an anthemic view of today’s most jaw-dropping advancements across AI, neurotechnology, synthetic biology, and more – and how we can harness the insights from these technologies to unlock our own potential.
You’ll explore:
- Cutting-edge AI case studies across education, health, work, and play
- How neuroscience is merging with engineering, medicine, and the built environment to create new adaptive systems
- What’s coming in the next five years
The World’s First Superhumans
Imagine being able to type, create digital art, and operate a robotic arm – with just your thoughts. Long considered the stuff of sci-fi lore, superhuman abilities are now a reality thanks to the real-world magic of implantable brain-computer interfaces (BCIs), which enable direct communication between the human brain and digital devices.
An award-winning filmmaker and head of special projects at one of the world’s leading implantable neurotech companies, Taryn has had remarkable access to some of the world’s first real-world superhumans. Afflicted with devastating neurodegenerative disorders, these early research participants have signed up for experimental studies that defy human limitations and illustrate the future of cognition, movement, and even the senses.
What is the future of vision, hearing, learning, and memory? How will BCIs enable new forms of communication, embodiment, and creativity? Should this technology be available to everyone, and perhaps, most importantly, is society ready?
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