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Images of AI have been a problem rattling around my mind for many years. As a degree student studying AI, I naturally read a tonne of articles where the writing was excellent but the images did not match. For decades as a reporter and editor covering technology stories, AI news would come and go but… Continue reading AI images – an ecosystem problem with a collaborative solution →

Non-profit collaboration starts to make and distribute more accurate and inclusive visual representations of AI Follows research showing that current popular images of AI using themes like white human-like robots and glowing brains and blue backgrounds create barriers to understanding of technology, trust, and diversity Available for technical, science, news and general media and marketing… Continue reading Press release: Better Images of AI launches a free stock image library of more realistic images of artificial intelligence →

Alan Warburton is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the impact of software on contemporary visual culture. His hybrid practice feeds insight from commercial work in post-production studios into experimental arts practice, where he explores themes including digital labour, gender and representation, often using computer-generated images… Continue reading Better Images of AI’s first Artist: Alan Warburton →

What if a major issue with AI stock images is the abundant use of the color blue in the background? Instead of promoting access and forms of agonism in the debate about AI, the blue has the opposite consequence of “putting them to sleep,” developing forms of resignation in the general public.… Continue reading Nel blu dipinto di blu; or the “anaesthetics” of stock images of AI →

Few images are as recognisable or as frequently memed as Michelangelo’s Creazione di Adamo (Creation of Adam), a moment from his larger artwork that arches over the Sistine Chapel in Vatican City. My particular interest in the meme-ing of the Creation of Adam is because of its ‘AI Creation’ form, which I have studied by collecting a corpus of 79 indicative examples found online… Continue reading The AI Creation Meme →

In what ways does a failure to consider the sonic framing of AI influence or undermine attempts to broaden public understanding of AI?… Continue reading AI WHAT’S THAT SOUND? Stories and Sonic Framing of AI →

We have noticed that news stories or press releases about AI are often illustrated with stock photos of shiny gendered robots, glowing blue brains or the Terminator. We don’t think that these images actually represent the technologies of AI and ML that are in use and being developed. Indeed, we think these are unhelpful stereotypes; they set unrealistic expectations, hinder wider understanding of the technology and potentially sow fear. Ultimately this affects public understanding and critical discourse around this increasingly influential technology. We are working towards better, less clichéd, more accurate and more representative images and media for AI.… Continue reading What does AI look like? →

The following is an excerpt from the full article on aimyths.org by Daniel Leufer: https://www.aimyths.org/ai-equals-shiny-humanoid-robots So what makes a robot picture terrible? Well, there seem to be a few typical ways in which things can go wrong, so here is a non-exhaustive list of the main offenders: absurd sexualisation & perpetuation of gender stereotypes default… Continue reading Do robots dream of unnecessary appliances? →

The German conference “KI und Wir” organized a panel discussion about the topic of visual representation of AI in the media. The guests were: Alexa Steinbrück – AI researcher and educator at University of Art and Design, Burg GiebichensteinAmelie Goldfuß – Designer and educator at University of Art and Design, Burg GiebichensteinMichael Pfister – director… Continue reading Panel discussion with head of photography of Zeit-Online →