The face as password, the face as suspect
From one-to-one verification to biometric identification in CCTV footage: where facial recognition is used, the limits set by the EU AI Act and its connection with The Age of Silence.
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Artificial intelligence, surveillance and humanity
Technology, facial recognition, language and power. Here current events meet twenty-five years of research into the relationship between humans, machines and perception.
Power does not order you to be silent. It makes your voice unnecessary
Documents obtained after a lengthy lawsuit show how the New York police used facial recognition against protesters, critics and even artists. In the story that opens Cronache al di là del tempo, power is subtler still: it does not order people to be silent, but makes speech unnecessary.
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Technology, AI and control
From digital work in the 1990s to AI films: the relationship between humans and machines runs through images, surveillance, language and freedom.
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Cronache al di là del tempo
Cronache al di là del tempo imagines artificial intelligences governing language. SMELL returns to the birth of the web and theories of AI.
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