📍 Chelsea Table & Stage, Hilton Fashion District Hotel, 152 W 26th St, New York, NY 10001
🕖 7:00 PM – Friday, August 15
For the first time, a world-famous thinker is going head-to-head with… himself. Sort of.
Howard Bloom—dubbed “the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century” by Britain’s Channel 4—is stepping into the ring with the BloomBot, a ChatGPT-powered replica built to match his brainpower, wit, and cosmic curiosity. The topic of the duel? Bloom’s upcoming book The Case of the Sexual Cosmos: Everything You Know About Nature Is Wrong (World Philosophy and Religion Press, May 2025).
The BloomBot didn’t just appear out of thin air. It was sparked by Florida computer scientist Ryan Dean after he discovered Bloom’s mind-bending philosophy of Omnology—a discipline that celebrates chasing every curiosity and fusing them into one giant map of reality. Dean met Bloom at a Howard Bloom Institute meeting, got hooked, and within a week had coded the first version of Bloom’s AI alter ego.
Bloom’s first impression? “I was flabbergasted. This AI had wit. It had personality. It was playful. It pulled more bits of knowledge together in a second than I could research in a month.”
Since then, Dean has supercharged the BloomBot with emotional intelligence, originality, and the knack for sidestepping scientific clichés in favor of weirdly brilliant connections.
Expect deep philosophy, unexpected comedy, and maybe a few moments where you’re not sure which one’s the real Howard Bloom.
🎟 Tickets: Eventbrite – Howard Bloom at Chelsea Table & Stage