The Love Robots are built on notions of love, not ‘intelligence’, automation, or practicality. They don’t care about humans, only about each other. They try to find each other. Sometimes they succeed, often they don’t. They are fragile, vulnerable. They spin around. They fail, they try again.
This article details how both humans and #AI systems turn #information into interpretations and actions. It is a summary of a series of articles I wrote a few years ago, updated for the age of generative AI.
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Come and see our Love Robots on May 9th🤖 and I will be part of the conversation on What is a Good Life in a More-Than-Human World and Aegean Intelligence: The Future of AI on May 8th. Hope to see you there !
If we regard time itself as a technology, then most humans have become thoroughly enslaved to it. Looking deeper, we find time, computation, and capitalism all rooted in a rational mindset that orders the world through language and measurement. Through a dialogue from the future, this book chapter disentangles these roots, from nanosecond computation to the deep time of quartz and cæsium, and then identifies alternative ways of approaching time.
With illustrations by the brilliant @zeb.ko
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#AI as theatre: You can read my new book chapter for free, just published in Artificial Intelligence in Creative Industries, edited by @caterina.moruzzi and Francisco Tigre Moura.
This chapter details three theatrical roles of AI: as artist, actor, and audience. Each is illustrated with a project created by artists (including Pierre Huyghe, Holly Herndon, and @dmstfctn ) who engage AI not just as a generative tool but as a complete system. Training is rehearsal, and generation is performance—both as measurement and classification, and as theatre, AI is associated with associated rituals, myths, and cultural production. Brenda Laurel’s characterization of computers as theatre is extended to help us understand AI as a creative endeavour, providing analysis and guidance for future creative practice.
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Enlightenment in the age of #AI: The reverse Turing Test, and the bubble that’s not financial but mental and cultural. This is among the issues we discussed in the AI Reading Group run by @pixelpeppy and me on January 30th, 2026. We used Kant’s “What is Enlightenment?” as a prompt for discussion, and some other recent texts shed light on conversations around “Artificial General Intelligence” #AGI and the proposed AI #Singularity. That is the focus of this article, along with the broader question of whether humanity might be entering a new Age of Enlightenment, or rather a New Dark Age.
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The mythology of #AI: ‘Myths and metaphors aren’t just rhetorical flourishes; they are about power,’ writes Eryk Salvaggio. In this article we untangle some of these myths and metaphors. /
