AI & Conflicts. Volume 02

AI & Conflicts 02 explores how artificial intelligence is not merely a technological tool, but a powerful force that reconfigures economic, cultural, and representational systems. The volume examines the current "AI summer" by highlighting tensions between big tech’s utopian narratives and the political, ethical, and aesthetic conflicts they generate. It discusses AI as an extractive system that shapes labor, creativity, and knowledge through opaque, proprietary mechanisms. In response, artists and theorists propose alternative, situated approaches to AI that resist dominant paradigms. Contributors: Pasquinelli, Buschek & Thorp, Salvaggio, Steyerl, Dzodan, Klein & D’Ignazio, Lee, Quaranta, Atairu, Herndon & Dryhurst, Simnett, Woodgate, Shabara, Ridler, Wu & Ramos, Blas, Hui.