artist statement

Over the span of four years, artificial intelligence has improved upon itself at a rate which has no precedent. For the decades that the concept of artificial intelligece has been a part of the public consciousness, its implications have been steeped in duality. It has been the ultimate goal of computer scientists, and the great nightmare for many writers and thinkers. Now, at its advent we find ourselves wholly unprepared for what the future may bring. A.I. is unregulated. Its only limits are the boundaries set by its own user, and it holds no moral ground besides that of its creator.

A.I. has become a part of your life and mine in more ways than we can count. If this is a natural step in our evolution, which species will it be that go extinct? What is the point of an artist in a world where art, or at the least its grotesque replication, can be churned out faster than I can write any of these words? Do we provide value to society only in the ways we’re currently superior to A.I.?