At a time when the art world wonders at the first “artworks” produced by artificial intelligence and legitimises their status in the art market, Hito Steyerl questions AI’s applications. Unencumbered either by ethics or by a relevant legal framework, large corporations, often in tandem with the military industry, develop these technologies following their own economic interests while society at large remains oblivious to a discussion which is already changing its life-conditions. Following the trail of writers such as Jules Verne or Philip K. Dick and also referring to the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Steyerl is a harbinger of a future that she invites us to ponder.
