Lecture

Intelligent Unconsciousness (Alienating AI Modelling)

Participants
  • Ania Malinowska
    Ania Malinowska

    Ania Malinowska

    Ania Malinowska,  University of Silesia  – author, curator, licensed hypnotherapist and professor in media and cultural studies with focus on  new technologies, emotional ecologies and cultural semiotics.  She researches hybrid (human-machine)  cohabitation, as well as cultures of emotions, feeling and affect. Associated with the University of Silesia, she is a co-founder (with professor Michał Krzykawski) of the  Centre for Critical Technology Studies. She is a former research fellow at The New School in New York (Fulbright), and at the University of California, Berkeley (Marie Curie Actions).. She has written extensively on past and current posthuman dynamics. Her latest books  is Love in Contemporary Technoculture (Cambridge University Press, 2022).

Intelligent Unconsciousness (Alienating AI Modelling)

The talk explores attempts at the alternative modelling of artificial intelligence the experimental installation and system HYPNOTIC AI (HAI)  created by Ania Malinowska and Przemysław Jasielski. HAI is an art-based-research project that contributes to the debate on “the artificial unconscious”, in disagreement with dominant isomorphic AI models that tend to restrict insights into the peculiar machine intelligence  by emulating human ways of thinking. HYPNOTIC AI offers  human-computer (man-machine) interaction, allowing an experience of their respective phenomenological idiosyncrasies  in a  code-free exchange of mind abstraction. Reaching for techniques of hypnosis , HYPNOTIC AI prompts discognitionas a tool for exploring AI’s potential beyond traditional codes and materiality. The talk offers insights into the implications of the HYPNOTIC AI system in contexts of AI, man-machine relationships, and philosophical ponderings of artificial consciousness, alluding to experiments in design and art while hoping to inspire novel discussions concerning the evolving dynamic between human cognition and machine intelligence.