At times UT-Austin's Good Systems Symposium felt a bit like listening to a Drake album, with conversations heavily focused on trust issues, broken promises, and community engagement (maybe not so Drake on that last one). Artificial intelligence experts took turns calling out the human side of a technology that, on its surface, appears to be very much not human. The emphasis on the natural world extended all the way to the decor – a string-of-pearls plant centered and two Swiss cheese plants framed the panelists.