Inside the AI War Cloud

Inside the AI War Cloud / Sarah Ciston - Photo: Sarah Ciston

Deep Space 8K

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Inside the AI War Cloud

Sarah Ciston (US)

Inside the AI War Cloud attempts to deconstruct the idea of “AI decision support” as a misdirect from the larger problems common to all AI systems, which amplify, accelerate, and neutral-wash biased human processes. This lecture-performance will dive into examples from the AI War Cloud Database, discuss its organizing themes, and show how it was built using critical code studies, open-source intelligence, and artistic research.

Ars Electronica Center, Level 0, Deep Space 8K
Wed 3. Sep 2025 17:30 – 18:00

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  • Sarah Ciston

    Sarah Ciston builds critical-creative tools to bring intersectional approaches to machine learning. They are the author of A Critical Field Guide for Working with Machine Learning Datasets and co-author of Inventing ELIZA: How the First Chatbot Shaped the Future of AI (MIT Press 2026). Ciston has been named AI Newcomer by the Gesellschaft für Informatik and an AI Fellow at Akademie der Künste. They hold a PhD in Media Arts + Practice from University of Southern California.

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Design, programming, research, writing: Sarah Ciston. | Research sources and image credits on project website. | With thanks to Claire Carroll, Kate Crawford, Ariana Dongus, Samir Ghosh, Vladan Joler, Pedro Oliveira, Miller Puckette, Corbinian Ruckerbauer, Nataša Vukajlovic, Ben Wagner and the AI Futures Lab, Thorsten Wetzling, Cambridge Digital Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies for discussions and support contributing to the work.

Presented in the context of STARTS Ec(h)o. STARTS Ec(h)o is funded by the European Union under Grant Agreement No. 101135691.

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