Air Kiss [Kraft]

[botaohu]

Chinese Title: 飞吻

Your Team:

Research Questions:

What will the future of borders look like with the full automation of governance?

Keywords:

AI, Future Border, Computational Politics, Feedback Loop

Artefact / Media:

Film Essay, Book, Website.
Film Prop: Touchable Wearable Interface for AI.

Abstract:

Air Kiss is an upcoming film looking at a near future where governance has largely been outsourced to artificial intelligence. As a backdrop to the film comes a speculative strategy on the unfolding mechanisms of a decentralized AI-governance system.

The social, political, cultural and spatial repercussions of these projected developments are vast. What does it mean and feel like to live in a world where computation has become the surrounding matter itself? When algorithms predict, suggest, decide, analyze and manage everything from basic income to infrastructures and one’s inner dialogue, what are the extents of one’s personal responsibilities —and in fact— personality?

Envisioned here is a system that attempts to be a universally fair real-time democracy. Users of this system —the citizens— are subjects to a continuous poll on their preferences about their living environments. Both by deliberate virtual requesting and through behaviour tracking, users influence the algorithmic system in designing and managing cities and geographies beyond it. Eye movements, skin temperature, heart rate, muscular tension, nutrition intake, blood consistency, geolocation, speech, speech to text, thought to text, genome, energy use: all are monitored to draw complex maps in time and space —maps for a decentralized algorithmic organism to know, predict, suggest and decide.

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Visual Reference / Illustrations

References:

[1]: Benjamin Bratton. Stack.
[2]: Metahaven. Sprawl.
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