Future Technological Environment
This program was a public event organized in conjunction with A.I, entiely on us project presented in the 10th Seoul Mediacity Biennale Eu Zên. The project was developed through the collaboration of 13 artists/teams: Min Sey, David Ha, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Luba Elliott, Mario Klingemann, Mike Tyka, MODULABS (Kim Seungil), Scott Kelly & Ben Polkinghorne, Shinseungback Kimyonghun, Oscar Sharp & Ross Goodwin, Jeong Jihoon, Gene Kogan, and Choi Seoug Joon.
Artificial Intelligence is a part of our lives. A.I speakers that are able to suggest movies don’t surprise me anymore, and recommendation systems are getting so smart that they catch my preferences quicker than ever. As always, our lives are being influenced by and are influencing to the advanced technologies. As always, we hope this most radical technology, A.I, that benefits our lives, to be entirely on us. However, what we are experiencing now is slightly different from our expectations. Instead of sensing mind blowing moments of A.I every single day, we now face an imbalance system: lack of minority groups data, diversity issues, and unbalanced accessibility. Some people say that AI stands for not only Artificial Intelligence, but also for Augmented Intelligence. In this point of view, who’s intelligence can be augmented by AI? Can this technology enhance the abilities of all of us? If not, who can be in the group of “all”? Are you one of the “all”? I started this project to reveal questions, problems, and issues in the age of A.I. that came up to our minds.
Entirely beneficial state might be ideal. It can not turn into a reality under any circumstances, and it can not be achieved in any society. However, still, that is the value we should keep pursuing for a better life. Can AI be for ‘all’? Is it entirely on us? We will have a time to talk about this thought and consideration with a futurologist, Jihoon Jeong and a director of MODULABS, Seungil Kim.
