AI at the accident of epistemic collapse
Among Paul Virilio’s well-known concepts is that each new technology creates its own accident. I’ve discussed this earlier suggesting that generative AI creates the accident of AI-generated versions of all former accidents. We can think of this as alternative or as a different way of describing the same accident. An epistemic collapse occurs when there…
the ethical consequences of lethal AI
AI output can claim no knowledge or ethical responsibility but both knowledge and consequence are produced as the output turns a building into rubble. There are humans in (and on) various loops. We could hold them accountable as the ones who know and who bear responsibility. They might take legal ownership but they do not…
AI output and “distant tripping”
Toward the end of his life, Timothy Leary began discussing the possibility of the internet as electronic LSD. Chaos and Cyber Culture is an amazing and curious artifact of the early web. There you might learn how to become an amphibian, as Leary claimed to be. Without romanticizing his provocative positioning, there has long been…
AI, truth, and risk in an extra-moral sense
In the pursuit of artificial intelligence, we might consider Nietzsche’s remark that the human “intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance.” Mythologically, the AI is a non-human version of the human intellect, but could it ever have…
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Alex Reid, Professor of Digital Rhetoric, Media, and Artificial Intelligence 