Join me on a trip to Pongso no Tao island, before embarking on a journey to the future of a floating city in the south of the Netherlands. This was the starting point of my lecture at the "Re-patterning our Seasonal Cultures" symposium in September ‘23 at the University of Bergen.

In a world increasingly shaped by technology, our relationship with artificial intelligence (AI) is a topic of ongoing debate. With growing concerns about bias and discrimination perpetuated by AI systems, the need to reevaluate our approach is more critical than ever. Still, Archer Pechawis, co-author of "Making Kin with the Machines," suggests that we should imagine our relationship with AI based on love rather than fear.

Although not a complete monolith, the future of birth is distinctly western-oriented, and firmly rooted in the juxtoposition of humans against nature, and nature against tech. That’s my experience using the GPT-4 based future scenario maker of the Board of Innovation.

Much of today’s AI art debate revolves around answering the question: is AI art, art, or soulless regurgitation of actual art? Honestly, this discussion bores me to death, and leads away from AI’s real dark issue.

Science-fiction prototyping offers a way to experiment with the implications of tech before it is actually invented. But most sci-fi prototyping leaves a lot to be desired.