2 documents
Becoming Digital
Phenological Mismatch
James Bridle
Architecture Essay
Posted: June 25, 2019
Category
Nature & Ecology, Data & Information, Technology
Subjects
Climate change, Algorithms
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Failing to Distinguish between a Tractor Trailer and the Bright White Sky
James Bridle
Resistance and refusal must remain as possible responses to the technologically augmented assault directed at individual autonomy today—the off switch must still be within reach. In my research into autonomous vehicles and machine vision, I have tried to develop several strategies for human-scale opposition to exploitative automation, such as the Autonomous Trap. This trap is constructed by drawing a pair of nested circles—one solid, one dashed—on the roadway. From the outside, the pattern denotes a right of way. From the inside, it means no entry. Thus any car, programmed to obey the rules of the road, may enter, but cannot leave, like a demon trapped within a magic circle.
e-flux Journal
Posted: June 20, 2019
Category
Technology, Data & Information
Subjects
Automation, Artificial intelligence