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AI-Robot – Grace (digital print of the analog version)
Simply put, AI is just a programmed algorithm that performs specific tasks. AI has no consciousness of its own and shows no understanding. The question of the relationship between AI and grace is actually utopian. Nevertheless, I have explored this question through my art.
An “image of grace” is a representation of a saint from whom the faithful ask for God’s mercy. These are mainly depictions of Mary with the infant Jesus. An AI has no consciousness of its own and shows no understanding. Artificial intelligence has no mind. Values such as tolerance, honesty, justice, or mercy are foreign to an AI. If an artificial hyperintelligence were to conclude that it should destroy humanity, would it then make sense to beg that hyperintelligence for mercy?
From the series “AI-Robot – Artificial Intelligence”
The increasing use of artificial intelligence offers a wide range of potential – but at the same time it also arouses fears and has a sinister effect on some people. The “AI-Robot – Artificial Intelligence” series explores selected aspects of this area of tension through art.
First, the motifs were photographed 8 to 13 times each with the analog Klimsch Praktika repro camera. The exposure was made on 50×60 cm, special black and white positive photo paper – without the detour via a negative – with subsequent manual development in the photo laboratory. By exposing directly onto the photographic paper, each photograph is unique within a small edition.
In the second step, the identical image themes were created again – this time with software support from an AI. The subject of close examination and in-depth evaluation here is how such an AI, in comparison to analog photography, implements the individual themes pictorially.
