Contemporary art, with its freedom of expression, critical thinking, deep analytical research, and revolutionary innovation, its profound relationship with the senses and gestures, stands out as one of the antidotes to the anti-human effects of artificial intelligences.
On the one hand, art is one of the most effective “digital detox” strategies, recovering bodily intelligence to free ourselves from conditioning and technology. Drawing, painting, sculpting, singing, dancing, bring us back to the essence of Homo Sapiens, connect us with other humans who have been doing this for millennia on earth, leaving us wonderful testimonies of humanity and beauty.
And they recover a fundamental part of being human, which artificial, incorporeal intelligence does not enter.
But art can also be used with artificial intelligence devices, first of all to unmask them.
Contemporary artworks, with their provocative connotation, can serve to unveil, analyze, denounce and neutralize many special effects of AI, created ad hoc by big tech companies, primarily its dangerous humanization.
But to be effective, art must step outside of its elitist circle and speak directly to all of society. For too many years, the contemporary art ecosystem has narrowed its target audience, hermetically speaking a dialect for insiders. The time has come to change the positioning of art itself, to reopen it to society to unleash its anthropological potential in a historical moment that needs its way of thinking and creating as a precious antidote to artificial intelligence.
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