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

这个以实践为基础的研究项目调查了人类在面对人工智能(AI)时遇到的生存和伦理困境：人工智能给我们物种带来的生存风险是什么？它可能会消灭我们，还是会增强我们的人类能力？人工智能是一种提升人类能力的工具，还是一种具有道德权利的自觉实体？它会有真实的情感吗？或者它只是模拟同理心，目的是操纵我们跟随它？这项以实践为基础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是如何在伦理上与优越的人工智能相关的。通过以实践为基础的研究，本研究探索了人工智能技术如何具有将美术流派扩展到新形式的潜力，以及随着这些进步，人工智能伦理如何在概念上得到重新思考。通过使用机器智能技术的艺术实践，本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。为了研究人类和人工智能之间的伦理关系，这个以实践为基础的博士项目的基石是开发一个名为FRANK的真正的人工智能。AI Frank是使用人工智能技术(机器智能技术、深度学习等)中的最新进展编写的。弗兰克是一个真正的人工智能，观众可以直接与他对话-人们直接与他交谈，他用人性化的声音回答和提问。这项研究进行了一系列互动艺术作品，人工智能弗兰克在其中与观众互动，并概念化人类与人工智能相遇所产生的伦理困境。这项研究在美术和计算机科学的遥远领域之间进行了重要的跨学科概念化和美学研究，从而在一般数字人文学科特别是新媒体艺术中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.