Devouring the Future: The Garbage of AI By Kate Crawford and Marta Peirano

Description

Artificial intelligence is flooding the world with fake or low-quality images, articles, and videos. This content spreads through work environments, news channels, and the digital space we inhabit daily, generating an enormous amount of cultural waste and simultaneously consuming vast quantities of natural resources. This process not only degrades the digital ecosystem but also threatens the spaces where human creators have been able to thrive until now.

In a performance created specifically for her visit to the center, Kate Crawford will give a name and form to this phenomenon, which she defines as a bulimic cycle of artificial intelligence: a system that devours the culture produced by people, returns it transformed into synthetic waste, and ingests it again and again in an endless spiral, with an enormous social, political, and environmental cost.

Following this performance, Crawford will engage in conversation with Marta Peirano. Together, they will explore the implications of this extractive model of AI and its effects on culture, information, and the digital infrastructures that underpin our daily lives.

Led by:

Kate Crawford, author of *Atlas of AI* (Ned Ediciones, 2023), a leading Spanish-language reference book on AI.

Marta Peirano, one of the most prominent voices in Spain in the critical analysis of technology and power.

This session is part of the "On Pause" series and is co-curated with La Sullivan, a cultural producer specializing in thought, art, education, and cultural projects with social impact.

Schedule
Tuesday, March 3, at 6:30 p.m.

Comments
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Greetings will be held in the store after the event.