Artificial Intelligence and false hopes: Asunder

“Asunder is an art project that responds to a growing interest in the application of AI to critical environmental challenges. […] It’s a fictional ‘environmental manager’ that proposes and simulates future alterations to the planet to keep it safely within planetary boundaries, with what are often completely unacceptable or absurd results. In doing so, Asunder questions assumptions of computational neutrality, our increasingly desperate reach for techno-solutionist fixes to planetary challenges, and the broader ideological framing of the environment as a system.” (from the artists’s website)

Found in Tactical Tech’s exhibition.

Modified marine ecosystems

Climate adaptation for coastal cities will require altered relationships to the sea and the marine ecosystem. future coastal city communities will live closer to and closer with the sea and it’s inhabitants. This will most likely require modifications of both, urban and marine landscape and structure. Engineering will not stop above sea level. The question is, how much alteration and optimization is desireable beyond our sheer technical capacity. This collaborative AI-project ask just this question. Check out the project’s web page: YANTO

Found in Tactical Tech’s exhibition.