Economics

The danger lurking within the development of innovative AI technologies is anything but innovative or new. Greed and lust for power are age-old forces. Who is threatened by this danger? Those without money. Or power. Or both.

Liam Young on the emerging spatial phenomena of architecture designed entirely for machines. An edited extract from “Neo-Machine: Architecture Without People” by Young featured in “Machine Landscapes: Architectures of the Post-Anthropocene”, Architectural Design, Vol. 89:1, published on Tank Magazine.

“Choice Architecture” and the gig Economy gamified are not easy ideas to portray in a movie, let alone in one which manages to effectively criticize this new form of labor “Apploitation”. It requires not a heavy-handed dystopia but rather a light yet disturbing touch, a nuanced narrative and attention to detail that manages to explain why people are attracted to these jobs and apps yet how they ultimately come to be dominated by them. A difficult mission that Noah Hutton’s Lapsis manages to pull off. A creepy yet all-to-real sci-fi parable.