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WINNER the 2017 John W. Campbell Memorial Award WINNER 2018 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards in Speculative Fiction WINNER 2021 Chinese Nebula (Xingyun) Award for Best Translated Fiction …


In Two Moves, AlphaGo and Lee Sedol Redefined the Future
Although machines are now capable of moments of genius, humans have hardly lost the ability to generate their own.

Joshua Achiam on Twitter / X
There is a fact about the future that I feel many people are not facing for reasons that are largely psychological: there are going to be rogue AIs that exist in the world, that will replicate in the wild, and that will attempt to acquire resources for themselves. There will be…— Joshua Achiam (@jachiam0) September 1, 2026
A Primordial Computing Soup
Fostering AI art scenius, creating an open planetary network of robots

The cinematograph, the "noematograph," and the future of AI art
From the cinematograph to the "noematograph," the Hugh-winning author explores how technology has, and may still, breed new artistic forms.

Winners Take All — Anand Giridharadas
Anand Giridharadas is the author of Winners Take All. An insider’s groundbreaking investigation of how the global elite’s efforts to “change the world” preserve the status quo and obscure their role in causing the problems they later seek to solve.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

Jacob Geller — Art for No One
Where there’s a desert, that changes everything, as if earth hadn’t wanted to fill only her own need.
Dario Amodei — Machines of Loving Grace
How AI Could Transform the World for the Better

The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics
Heritage Frontiers in Computational Art: The Oceanic provenance of Permacomputing and Computational poetics (2024) Nancy Mauro-Flude Keywords heritage algorithms, Oceana, codework, future heritage, technē, digital decolonisation, sandboxing, in-formal cultural economies, philosophy of technology, critical media theory. Citation: Mauro-Flude, N. (2024). Heritage Frontiers in Computational Art: The Oceanic Provenance of Permacomputing and Computational Poetics. Originally presented at ISEA, the updated version is available at Autoluminescence Institute. Initially presented June 26, 2024 at [ISEA2024](https://expertevents.
The Intelligence Curse
This series examines the incoming crisis of human irrelevance and provides a map towards a future where people remain the masters of their destiny.

The tool, the craft, and the joy
On AI, craft, and building things that matter (1300 words)
Is AI the greatest art heist in history?
New technologies of reproduction are plundering the art world – and getting away with it

Dylan Patel – Anthropic & OpenAI will have most of the world’s compute by 2028
"Every force is screeching towards centralization."
