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AI-Robot – Religion (digital print of the analog version)
Put simply, an AI is just a programmed algorithm that performs certain tasks. An AI has no consciousness of its own and shows no understanding. The question of the relationship between AI and religion is actually utopian. Nevertheless, I have dealt with this question artistically.
In 2015, robotics expert and former head of Google subsidiary Waymo, Anthony Levandowski, founded the religious community “Way of the Future”, which worships artificial intelligence as a deity. The approach is that in the not-so-distant future, the computing power of computers, and therefore artificial intelligence, will increase so exponentially that it will be god-like. An artificial intelligence that solves all our problems and worries for us and ultimately creates a paradisiacal state. In 2020, Levandowski dissolved the religious community he had founded.
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.
