(re)programming | Ep. #5: AI [w/ Kate Crawford]

Better Machines for Better Humans Kate Crawford is a leading scholar on the social implications of artificial intelligence. Her book ATLAS OF AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence is the culmination of a five-year-long research into materiality of AI. Far from being immaterial, AI is made of flesh, sweat and fossil fuels, and is not neutral. Also, AI stands as one of the most concentrated industries of the world, with only five or six companies holding the pipelines of the data, designed to serve the capital, or for policing and for military purposes. Acquainting this is essential to resistance and change, because it’s by abstracting away the processes through which AI is made that the actual modes of production can persist. However, no political situation lasts forever and no technology is invulnerable: these planetary computational systems can be decentralised and become useful to humans and the planet. Guests: Sanela Jahić, intermedia artist; Lenart J. Kučić, journalist and podcaster; Nika Mahnič, researcher of the digital condition(ality). COLOPHON Host: Marta Peirano Guest: Kate Crawford Editing, Audio Mix and Music: Gašper Torkar (re)programming podcast series Produced by Janez Fakin Janša and Marcela Okretič for Tactics&Practice #10: (re)programming Project coordinator: Sonja Grdina Production: Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2023 Part of Tactics&Practice konS – Platform for Contemporary Investigative Art