RADICAL TALKS # 1: AI AND REVOLUTION
Thursday, 20 June 17.00-19.00
Tivoli Jakopič Promenade/Tivoli Park
Speakers: Dr Alfie Bown, Dr Zack Sievers, fl3ka (decentrala), fram3d (decentrala))
We've got artificial intelligence all figured out. Although it has no consciousness, it has self-development. Although it is intelligent, it has no consciousness. From this, we deduce that it has no responsibility and no relationship to otherness. It can relate to bodies, it can subjugate them. It can gain access to nuclear energy. It can create corporate scams. It can live without living nature. Like any organism, it evolves by an internal inertia to which everything else is secondary. Although it is born of man, all that is human about it is pure externality. It does not care about the good, the beautiful and the true – its criteria for being are radically different. Every existence is self-existence – every species is selfish. We will never be able to meet these criteria. And vice versa. Morality is not about all of us being amoral anyway. It is about this idea existing at all as something defining. AI is alien. It may not reach ecstasy. But it has already surpassed us: what we fear is always already there. That is why we want to think the impossible: not simply the technological revolution and its consequences, but – can AI be revolutionary?
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