Author: Nikita Shepard

Images ©2023 by Samia Pendleton, courtesy of French Institute/Alliance Française   A review of “dSimon” by Simon Senn & Tammara Leites October 6-7, 2023. FI/AF Tinker Auditorium, New York City By Nikita Shepard Why does artificial intelligence seem so unsettling? The answer we give to this reveals more about the cultural anxieties of our era than about the technology itself, as exemplified by shifting artistic responses to AI over the decades. The terror posed by the sentient supercomputer HAL that killed its human crew in the 1968 classic 2001: A Space Odyssey spoke to fears of nuclear war, as...