Manifesto | Science Fiction – Now!
A passionate call for a difficult but necessary action – Imagine Tomorrow! If you don’t, someone else will do so for you!
Lead | Inhuman Scales
How do we talk about the new uncanny numbers and foreign scales that became our reality in the past few months?
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Recommendation | When the future is not an option: On “U Are The Universe”
The film “U Are The Universe” does not ask how can humanity be saves, but rather what remains of humanity when the future ceases to be a possibility?
Recommendation | Sweeping Under the Rug
“Linoleum” is a captivating and heartbreaking film about longing and crisis, nostalgia and dreams.
Provocation | Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter
We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4
Recommendation | The Mars Express
Mars Express explores a fantastic future that remains haunted by the same problems troubling us today
Human, All Too Human
A wide range of groups are testing the edges and exploring the frontiers of humanity — conservatives argue against abortion, activists lobby for animal rights, engineers develop brain/computer interfaces, and lest we forget, messianic fundamentalists have quite a lot to say about the true virtue of human nature. Yet the question remains unanswered, unanswerable, and ours to ask, again and again: to ponder, define, imagine and reimagine what it means to be human. If we stop asking, who is going to take on this Sisyphean task? ChatGPT?
Manifesto | Grasping for Utopias in Times of Atrocity
A statement from Utopia about the urgent necessity of imagination, creativity and vision. New and radical hopes, horizons. frontiers, dreams.
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – Pens For Hire Facing Extinction
Nothing artificial poses a threat to the written word, there’s no mechanical replication or language model that can produce true righteous indignation or holy wrath. Those are human, as is the real danger
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – The Scenario
In 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought the world closer to nuclear war than it has ever been. What might the 13 days of the AI geo-political crisis look like?
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – It’s The Economy, Stupid
The danger lurking within the development of innovative AI technologies is nothing new. Greed is as old as time
Provocation | Response to ‘Pause AI’ Open Letter – A Truly Fantastic Letter
Although the dangers are real, very real – I won’t sign.