"It’s a really easy time to be fear or misunderstand AI – there are so many dimensions of fear in the world at the moment, and AI is another huge dimension of change. We're hoping that people can become aware of what they can do about it." These are issues that we have to know about, we have to engage with, we have to work out our relationship to - again we can't become passive in relation to that and be very, very aware about the path we're taking through it. And this is obviously very disturbing for our sense of democracy and the choices we make. The other big issue is about the distortion, the manipulation of what we might call truth - or objectivity.
Joy Buolomwini's work is very much focused on that, and really engages us all in that question about what we can do about it. But there are negative aspects to AI, two of which we've focused on in the show - racial bias and gender bias in data sets. We see huge leaps in terms of AI being able to help us with the big social problems of our time. All very big questions that we need to address for ourselves. That might be climate change, disease diagnosis, drug discovery, food production in parts of the world where food production is a challenge, education. "There's so many different aspects to AI in our society today, the most positive are really in the area of social impact and solving some of the world's biggest problems - or at least beginning to solve them. And questions where AI will take us in the future?" The exhibition also examines where the phenomenon of AI comes from and how is it shaping our lives. It’s very much about the merging of the two and the evolution of who we are and what we are. We look at humanlike qualities within technology and also how technology integrates itself into the human.
They are more accepting of a world where they live alongside objects, where technology might have a life of its own. The exhibition is underpinned by some really big ideas - we're looking at the interaction and evolution of humans with machines. It is a culture more at ease with humans taking their place in a much bigger interconnected system with many different forces at play. There is a view that this why Japanese culture is more receptive to robotics. In fact inanimate objects are believed to have a soul or a spirit of their own called 'kami'. According to the Shinto tradition, humans are much more comfortable with living in a world where objects are seen to have a kind of life. My co-curator Maholo Uchida is from Tokyo so she brings with her a completely different perspective on technology, AI and robotics. In Japan, there is a culture based on the ancient Shinto belief system and according to that belief system objects are not inanimate in the way that we see them in the West. "The deeper messages of the exhibition are about this conversation between East and West - an Eastern conception of the self and technology and a Western conception of the self and technology.
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