ai cultural sabotage #1 – kate crawford and vladan joler

The alleged inevitability of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and its apparently bleak consequences, seem to be passively accepted by most people. However, there are several theorists, activists, and artists who, in a patient, informed and determined way, are demystifying this fatality, exposing the mechanisms that fuel it, revealing paradoxes and offering alternative visions, interpretations and attitudes. AI Cultural Sabotage invites these experts and dissidents to reflect on this issue. This cycle is curated by Alessandro Ludovico, researcher, artist and founding editor of Neural, a magazine focused on media arts, electronic music, and hacktivism, a form of digital activism based on hacker culture and ethics.

This programme is curated by Alessandro Ludovico, a researcher, artist and founding editor of Neural, a magazine focussed on media arts, electronic music and hacktivism, a form of digital activism based on hacker culture and ethics.

#1 kate crawford and vladan joler

Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler are leading figures in exploring artificial intelligence, technology, and its impact on society. A professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and senior principal investigator at Microsoft Research, Crawford is a renowned academic and artist. In 2021 she published Atlas of AI (published in Portugal by Relógio D’Água), recognised as essential reading on Artificial Intelligence and its implications and highlighted as the book of the year by The Financial Times and New Scientist. A scholar, researcher and artist, Joler combines critical design with investigative journalism and data visualisation. In collaboration with Crawford, he co-authored Anatomy of an AI System in 2018, an investigation into the resources needed to build the Amazon Echo virtual assistance devices.

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The alleged inevitability of AI and its consequences are passively accepted by most, but there’s a group of theorists, activists, and artists who offer alternative perspectives. AI Culture Sabotage is an online series about these people who fight to reappropriate the rules, purposes and vision of AI.