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When one makes an object, you’re not really making the object as much as you are honing your own sensibility to make the object, your ability to decide and make choices. You do that for 50 years or 60 years and you get pretty good at it after a while because that’s what you’re really working on. They get backwards, the idea that communication is what art is about, it’s not about communication it’s about knowing.
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Art is a continual inquiry into the potential of human beings to perceive another world with an aesthetic bias. What we see is the artworld which is not art per se, it is the process of how art is being innovated, and corrupted at the same time, into the world. This is not an “either or” or “better than” proposition. Without the process of the artworld doing what it does (well or not well) the inquiry of art would be like the tree that falls in the forest, it would have no effect. The act of art is this inquiry about the potential of human beings but everything from that point on is something else. The idea of making history has been very crucial and worked when the object had a kind of permanent transcendence about it. You set up a museum and you take up the position of trying to maintain it in perpetuity. The beauty of that is the idea that it creates this record, this body of knowledge from which the world steps off and we have that as a reference point. But one of the problems is that now contemporary art won’t hold still.
- A Conversation with Robert Irwin on Light and Space III
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The world should be conceived as a pluriverse, not a universe and this means recognising that the western form of liberal democracy is not the only way in which the democratic ideal can be institutionalised. The western model represents only one possible political form of life amongst others and we should accept that democracy can find different forms of inscription according to the variety of contexts.
- Chantal Mouffe
Quo Vadis, Europe? Debating Democratic Models for Europe
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AI is not outside of humanity because it is created and developed by humans. The algorithms and models that make up AI systems are created using human-generated data and are trained and fine-tuned by human engineers and scientists. The decisions and actions taken by AI systems are also ultimately determined by the goals, objectives, and constraints set by human creators.
Additionally, AI systems are not independent entities, but rather they are dependent on human input, maintenance, and oversight. Without human intervention, AI systems would not function.
Moreover, AI reflects the biases, values, and limitations of its human creators, and it can perpetuate existing societal biases if the data used to train them is not diverse. This means that it is important for AI systems to be created and used with ethical considerations in mind.
In summary, AI is not outside of humanity because it is created and maintained by humans, reflects human biases and values, and is dependent on human oversight.