The Institute for Other Intelligences

X Artists' Books 2023 ISBN 9781737838852 Acqn 33513

Pb 17x24cm 136pp ills £22.50

The book presents a transcript from one of these conferences in which a community of "AI
agents" gather at a school for oppositional automata to deliver lectures on the human biases and
omissions encoded in their training data. The resulting manuscript, published on the occasion of
the Institute's millennial anniversary, revisits sociotechnical systems from its founding in the 21st
century. Drawing on feminist, queer, and critical media scholarship, the trainings collected in the
book aim to optimize the operations of future generations of intelligent machines toward just
outcomes. Hakopian uses these speculative exchanges to invite the reader to consider how
critical approaches to nonhuman intelligence might reroute our current path toward destructive
technofutures and allow us to conceive of another way forward.

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