The impossible's possibility: Creating a space for the co-existence of anxiety and freedom

这个基于实践的研究项目调查了我们人类在面对人工智能（AI）时遇到的存在和伦理困境：人工智能对我们物种构成的存在风险是什么？它有可能消灭我们，还是会增强我们人类的能力？人工智能是提升人类能力的工具，还是拥有道德权利的自我意识实体？它会有真正的情感，还是只是模拟同理心，目的是操纵我们跟随它？这项基于实践的研究仔细研究了这些问题，并表明人工智能技术的快速发展迫使我们审视我们人类在道德上如何与高级人工智能联系起来。通过开展基于实践的研究，该研究探讨了人工智能技术如何具有将美术流派扩展为新形式的潜力，以及在这些进步之后如何在概念上重新考虑人工智能伦理。通过运用机器智能技术的艺术实践，研究开发了探索人类与人工智能（AI）伦理关系的策略和方法。为了研究人类与人工智能之间的伦理关系，这个基于实践的博士项目的基石是开发一个名为FRANK的真实人工智能。AI FRANK使用人工智能技术（机器智能技术，深度学习等）的最新进展进行编程。FRANK是一个真正的人工智能，观众可以和他直接对话——人们直接和他说话，他用人性化的声音回答和提问。该研究进行了一系列互动艺术作品，其中AI FRANK与观众互动，并将人类与人工智能相遇时产生的伦理困境概念化。该研究为美术和计算机科学这两个遥远的领域之间的重要跨学科概念和美学做出了贡献，从而在数字人文学科，特别是新媒体艺术领域建立了新的研究领域。

This practice-based research project investigates the existential and ethical dilemmas we humans encounter when faced with artificial intelligence (AI): What are the existential risks that artificial intelligence pose upon our species? Is it likely to wipe us out or will it enhance our human capacity? Is artificial intelligence a tool to advance our human capacity or a self-conscious entity with ethical rights? Will it have real emotions or will it just simulate empathy with the aim to manipulate us into following it?This practice-based research study scrutinizes such questions and suggests that fast developments within artificial intelligence technology oblige us to examine how we humans ethically relate to superior artificial intelligence. By conducting practice-based research the study explores how artificial intelligence technology holds the potential to expand the genre of fine art into new forms and how AI ethics conceptually can be reconsidered in the wake of these advancements.Through an artistic practice employing machine intelligence technology the study develops strategies and methods for explorations of humans' ethical relation to artificial intelligence (AI). To investigate the ethical relation between humans and artificial intelligence, the cornerstone in this practice-based PhD project is the development of a real artificial intelligence named FRANK.AI FRANK is programmed using the newest advancements within artificial intelligence technology (machine intelligence technology, deep learning etc.). FRANK is a real AI and the audience can have a direct dialogue with him - people speak directly to him and he answers and asks questions with a humanized voice.The study conducts a body of interactive artworks where AI FRANK interacts with the audience and conceptualizes the ethical dilemmas that arise from human encounters with artificial intelligence. The study contributes with vital interdisciplinary conceptualizations and aesthetics between the remote fields of fine art and computer science, hereby establishing new fields of research within digital humanities generally and new media art especially.