David Aston

ARTWORK DETAILS

David Aston
Oracle II (Super Intelligence: Existential Risks, Outcomes & Mitigations)
1956 one arm bandit, embossed aluminium bank safety deposit box
2024-5
38 H x 42.5 W x 29.5 D cm

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Oracle II (Superintelligence: Existential Risks, Mitigations and Outcomes) is a sculptural Artificial Intelligence (AI) Superintelligence future scenario simulator. An oracle and work of AI gamification made to simulate AI future scenarios using the latest data from research into AI existential risks, impacts and proposed mitigations. It is the second in a series of sculptural future prediction simulators.

It is the second in a series of sculptural and digital Oracle future prediction simulators. The first (Oracle) was developed in response to future progress in artificial intelligence: A survey of expert opinion by the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI), and the second developed in response to the latest research into AI existential risks, and future scenarios.

Oracle II is made from a near identical deconstructed one arm bandit made in the same year as the Dartmouth conference (1956). The machine’s elaborately cast and illuminated fittings have been removed, revealing its base metal, hand-cranked mechanical and clockwork inner workings. In this, its most functional form, the machine shares its ancestry and aesthetic with earlier 19th entry mechanical computing engines.

Oracle II has a digital simulator enabling you to generate your own future prediction and AI risk scenarios. You can access it here: https://www.rmutt.co.uk/new-index-3#/oracle2/