Is AI Art Net Art?
Video & prepared remarks for the symposium with Vladan Joler, Valentina Tanni & Eryk Salvaggio examining the transformation and consolidation of the Web from the 1990s up to the age of generative AI.
In Copyright ‘Wins’ for AI, Judges Leave Room for Future Defeats
My latest piece in Tech Policy Press examines two AI copyright rulings and the legal rationales that will likely be setting precedent beyond the the short-term legal victories.
The Black Box Myth
If you missed it, my piece in Tech Policy Press tackles the relationship the AI industry has with uncertainty: using what they don't know about AI as evidence that they're right, or that it should be feared, or that it can't be properly regulated.
Complete Accuracy Collapse
A new paper from Apple proves what I've discussed before – that so-called "reasoning" models aren't doing much reasoning at all – but now that is clear even by the bizarre industry definitions of the term. The researchers created a series of puzzles with similar problem-solving
The Decision Not to Decide
Interfaces, and design of all kinds, exercise decision-making. Decision making is a form of power. What, then, is generative AI for design?
Democracy & the AI Question
Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary society.
Human Noise, AI Filters: "Mr. Watson, Come Here."
Remarks on AI, Noise, and Creative Misuse for the Artificial Intelligence & Contemporary Creation conference, 24 May 2025 at the Jeu de Paume, Paris.
A Personalized Ecology of AI
I'm three events into this tour talking about AI, and there's a question about the environment every time. What's the environmental impact of AI? In London, the question was a bit more pointed: How do I justify using AI as an artist, knowing the
Machines Cannot Feel or Think, but Humans Can, and Ought To
My new piece in Tech Policy Press is up, and it’s about the recent re-emergence of very silly chatter about whether AI “experiences the world” and therefore ought to have something akin to human rights. In the piece, I argue that they don’t need them. Here’s how
What Does It Mean to ‘use’ Generative AI?
Are pro and anti AI camps talking about the same thing when they say “useful”?
Possible Noise
A walk-through of the NCM's "Signal to Noise," a recently opened exhibition curated by Eryk Salvaggio, Joel Stern and Emily Siddons in Melbourne, that examines how artists have worked with noisy channels.
Signal to Noise (and Back Again)
Thoughts on noise, for the opening of “Signal to Noise” at the National Communication Museum in Melbourne.