AI Observer

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Xintian Tina Wang|Events

Your tailormade revenge dress? There’s an app for that

Making its runway debut at NYFW, Neuono promises perfectly fitted, custom garments from a selfie. As AI enters the atelier, questions loom large about labor and artistry.

“Robot at the British Library Science Fiction Exhibition”

Ellen McGirt|Fresh Ink

Introducing ‘AI Observer’

A new channel to meet the moment we’re in, using the tools we’ve always relied on: reporting, conversation, critique, context, discernment, community, and play.

Chantal Flores|Analysis

GenAI art is enlivening the search for Mexico’s disappeared

Families who’ve lost loved ones to the country’s decades-long Drug War are turning to an unlikely source to reenergize search efforts: ‘Ghiblified’ AI art.

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Xintian Tina Wang|Analysis

What does AI understand about fine art?

An experiment with ChatGPT reveals unsettling truths about how AI interprets artists from diverse backgrounds.

Katica Roy|Analysis

Why ethical AI is good business

Responsible algorithms minimize risk and return value at scale.

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Sigourney Schultz|Cinema

Dispirited Away: In the wrong hands, ‘Ghiblified’ genAI images erode ethos, empathy, and our very humanity

An art historian who grew up inside Pixar Studios reflects on what we lose when art once rendered through deliberate labor and deep care can be reproduced in seconds — and weaponized just as quickly.

John Maeda|Books

Should we teach AI to reflect human values, emotions, and intentions?

In this new preface to How to Speak Machine, John Maeda revisits a decade of technological transformation, from invisible computing to the rise of generative AI, and what it means to teach machines to speak human.