Kate Crawford, Trevor Paglen |Training humans

The era of artificial intelligence and its questions. The exhibition is dedicated to the training images: the collections of photos used by scientists to train artificial intelligence (AI) systems in how to “see”, identify people and categorize the world. A reflection, in particular on the facial recognition system, source of social and ethical problems: often invasive and not immune from prejudices.

The researcher Kate Crawford and the artist Trevor Paglen are the ideator of this project that revolves around some complex themes: the codification of human being and the modality   with which the technological system collect and use the data; the heavily criticized theories of psychologist Paul Ekman, who claimed that the breadth of the human feeling could be boiled down to six universal emotions; the border between science, ideology, prejudice and the different power relations among this technological device.