Successful AI Will Usher in a New Era of Theology
For the hundreds of years that comprised the “Middle Ages,” theology was the most cherished and important intellectual discipline, the ...Read More
Posts about The Theme
Posts exploring the art theme for the event in Black Rock City.
How to Practice Being Human: An Interview With Dr. Sherry Turkle
Our problem isn't that Artificial Intelligence is getting better at being human, it's that human beings are getting worse at ...Read More
The Three Laws of Robotics Can’t Save Us
Isaac Asimov made some very interesting thought experiments about Artificial Intelligence and the world it creates in I, Robot. But ...Read More
What if Kafka Was a Cyberpunk? (The Connection Between AI and Bureaucracy)
At the time Kafka wrote his infamous novels about human beings struggling to make sense of a world full of ...Read More
What Is It We Think Humans Can Do That Robots Can’t?
If this essay were a classic sci-fi script, then by the end the computer I’m writing it on would experience ...Read More
Why We Get the Robot Overlords We Deserve
Many months ago, while still developing this year’s theme, Larry Harvey began receiving a series of robocalls in which an ...Read More
I, ROBOT
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. ...Read More
The Things I Left In The Temple.
I loved the theme from the start. It turned up the volume on all that is deep and sacred about ...Read More
Radical Ritual: “I Do”
This is my 20th year at Burning Man. My Burniversary. My Burn Mitzvah. My Black Rock City education is now ...Read More