Who’s afraid of AI? In recent years the popular discourse surrounding artificial intelligence has turned a critical eye towards military-grade autonomous weaponry and biometric phrenology that predicts everything from your politics to your criminality—with legitimate paranoia and concern.
This zine from KTRSC-Books surveys the undulating concern and optimism regarding AI within science and pop culture through found images and texts which speak to its fictional, factual, and predictive potentialities. Quotes from TED Talks that champion the democratic possibilities of accessible AI are suspended in tenuous relief against screenshots of racist tweets from Microsoft’s accumulative intelligence bot. Included too is the nonsensical free-association poetry of harmless chatbots and stills from gameplay with 8-bit chess boards—digital artifacts that speak to our common desire to anthropomorphize and engage with multiprocessor systems.
Created by Konrad Trzeszczkowski, Ai is a visually arresting and thoughtful mediation of humankind’s impetus for intelligence mirroring in all its multivarious, and at times unsettling, iterations.
