In a way, in the authors’ intentions, this document could point to the guidelines of an “ars extensa manifesto,” a call to action by artists and intellectuals whose contribution could be crucial at a particularly critical time for humanity.
We are facing a phenomenon that will impact the development of art with the possibility for everyone to generate and process images with the greatest ease through artificial intelligence; this phenomenon must be thoroughly analyzed to understand its possible implications on the evolution of the arts themselves.
Artists have the freedom and awareness to critically analyze artificial intelligence, and create innovative forms endowed with meaning and beauty. Contemporary art can use its critical, analytical, innovative method to thoroughly understand the phenomenon of artificial intelligence, and help humanity deal with it, for example, by unmasking its dangerous anthropomorphic fictions and contributing to the creation of newly conceived works.
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