Ways of Being with James BridleWays of Being with James Bridle

De Dépendance, Rotterdam's platform for city culture and public debate, brings the well-known artist and tech philosopher James Bridle to Rotterdam for a lecture in Het Nieuwe Instituut. What does it mean to be intelligent? Is it something unique to humans, or shared with other beings--beings of flesh, wood, stone, and silicon? The last few years have seen rapid advances in artificial intelligence. But as it approaches, it also gets weirder: rather than a friend or helpmate, AI increasingly appears as something stranger than we ever imagined, an alien invention that threatens to decentre and supplant us.

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Artist, technologist and philosopher James Bridle draws on biology and physics, computation, literature, art, and philosophy, to answer these unsettling questions. Their new book Ways of Being explores the fascinating, strange and multitudinous forms of knowing, doing, and being which are becoming evident in the present, and which are essential for our survival.