Hack the Future is Assemble’s paid teen program. Each Friday afternoon, we’ve learned from guest makers, artists, and technologists to build up our maker skills as well as our understanding of the world around us and our place in it.
This year, we chose to focus our attention on generative AI, asking questions of experts in the field and of ourselves. Who benefits from this tech? Who controls it? What are their goals? Who does it leave out? How does it even work? What does it do well? What does it do poorly? What physical resources are being used to build it? What are the long-term effects on human privacy, creativity, and truth?
Water for Baby not Bot! is our rejection of all the reasons & justifications we’ve been told to accept about generative AI from the people who peddle it. Human-made art is not a product, aesthetic, or a job. Art is inherent to the human experience and cannot be replaced by machines. Long live human art! Messy, honest, human art!
Thank you to the following people for helping us along the way: CJ Swanson, Tom Ndiaye, Leo Hsu, Chase Klingensmith, Adam Paulisick, Myrah-Ashly Dixon, Orion Asa, Brent Nakamoto, Born Shamir, Miracle Jones, Etta Cetera, James Yaya Bough, Sarah Boyle, Vic Adair, Hallie Bateman, Nsai Temko, Evelyn Adair, and the folks from PGH Glass Center!
