(re)programming: AI
<p><strong>Better Machines for Better Humans</strong></p> <p>Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence. Her book <em>ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence</em> is the culmination of a five-year-long research into materiality of AI. Far from being immaterial, AI is made of flesh, sweat and fossil fuels, and is not neutral. Also, AI stands as one of the most concentrated industries of the world, with only five or six companies holding the pipelines of the data, designed to serve the capital, or for policing and for military purposes. Acquainting this is essential to resistance and change, because it’s by abstracting away the processes through which AI is made that the actual modes of production can persist. However,<strong> </strong>no political situation lasts forever and no technology is invulnerable: these planetary computational systems can be decentralised and become useful to humans and the planet.</p>
Authors: Marta Peirano
Contributors: Kate Crawford
Guest: Sanela Jahić, Lenart J. Kučić, Nika Mahnič
Editing, Audio Mix & Musician: Gašper Torkar
Producer: Janez Fakin Janša, Marcela Okretič
Project Coordinator: Sonja Grdina
Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art
Part of: Tactics&Practice [podcast]