The ethics of AI is the theme for Science Gallery London's 2023 season
AI: WHO’S LOOKING AFTER ME? is a new major exhibition and events programme at Science Gallery London which explores artificial intelligence and its impact on our lives.
Right now, AI seems to be everywhere and at the same time, nowhere. We feel it in our everyday lives more and more, slipping into everything from our bodies, pets, homes, hospitals and even our law courts. But can we rely on these systems for our wellbeing, care, and happiness?
Presented with FutureEverything, the exhibition runs from 21 June 2023 - 20 January 2024 and comprises 12 artistic collaborations including 7 new commissions.
Characteristic of Science Gallery London’s approach to developing cultural projects, the season has emerged from unlikely and inventive collaborations between people who might not otherwise have worked together, including artists, technologists, students and young adults in Lambeth and Southwark, engineers, computer scientists, sociologists, patient groups, medical professionals, and many others. The exhibition has been created with sector-leading researchers from seven departments across King’s College London.
'So many of our conversations about AI treat it as this distant, sleek, even magical thing; our attentions are daily directed towards the latest product or scandal,' said Siddharth Khajuria, Director of Science Gallery London. 'In all this hype and marketing, I think we’re losing sight of the human — both in how AI technologies are made, and the many ways they’re already woven into our lives. To be able to grasp and shape the course of AI’s journey, we need to grapple with its messy, multiple realities and I hope this exhibition can be an invitation to do that. It’s characteristic of what we’re trying to do as a gallery, to nurture unlikely, inventive collaborations and dialogues and be a home for the cultural work that emerges from them.'
By bringing together different disciplines and life experiences, the works invite visitors to reflect on what it means to entrust care to autonomous machines. Artists including Air Giants, Blast Theory, Fast Familiar and James Bridle reveal the surprising places in which AI technology is already embedded in our world and raise questions around the powerful ways AI may influence our futures.
'Artificial intelligence technologies have been recomposing our world through new taxonomies, narratives and aesthetics, creating a monocultural view of our society', said Irini Papadimitriou, Creative Director of FutureEverything, the arts organisation collaborating with Science Gallery London on the season. 'At FutureEverything, we believe that art and cross disciplinary exchange can help us imagine better, collective stories about technology, moving away from the hype and corporate narratives. The season provides a much-needed platform for not only sharing different perspectives, but also, for enabling collaboration and discourse.'
Jennifer Wong, Head of Programming at Science Gallery London added, 'This season invites you to dive into the opaque and murky workings of AI to explore what ethical and equitable human-AI systems might actually look and feel like. Who owns these systems and what are they for? Who decides what to optimize and who benefits? And how can we more responsibly harness the power of AI for the good of the many rather than the few? We want the exhibition and events programme to grow critical thinking and exchange between young audiences, artists and academic researchers, so that people gain a greater sense of what AI is and how they can exercise their own agency in relation to these technologies.'
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