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Jonathan Kopievker watched the film U Are the Universe, which uses motifs from genre cinema to ask existential questions about humanity, man, and the future.

AI systems with human-competitive intelligence can pose profound risks to society and humanity, as shown by extensive research and acknowledged by top AI labs. We call on all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.

Nothing artificial poses a threat to the written word, there’s no mechanical replication or language model that can produce true righteous indignation or holy fury. Those are human, as is the real danger.

16-28 באוקטובר 1962. משבר הטילים בקובה ארך שלושה עשר יום והביא את העולם כפסע ממלחמה גרעינית טוטאלית. כיצד ייראו 13 ימים דומים בעתיד הקרוב, כשבמרכזם בינה מלאכותית. ד"ר תהילה שוורץ אלטשולר ואיתי ברון מציגים תרחיש אפשרי למשבר הבא בתור.

Tens of thousands have signed the open letter calling to halt AI experiments, including leading figures from research, philosophy, policy, and industry, such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, Elon Musk, and Professor Yuval Noah Harari. You won’t find my name among them.

Čapek’s Scifi vision reflects the politics of his turbulent time and we're experiencing the fallout of those violent upheavals to this day.

The Neural Link - an Absurdist Reality - Text from the August 2020 PR event for Elon Musk's BCI venture, Neuralink

We’re marking the Robot centennial, 100 years of revolution and evolution, aspiration and agony, a century of mutual inspiration between industry and culture, art and policy, science and science fiction. At the heart of the Utopia “Master and Slaves” edition is the age-old naïve and un-answerable question – What is a Robot?

Video art (2018) by Shirley Shor, sound by Dror Rada, part of Shor’s solo exhibit, CryptoMania.

“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.