The rise of AI means "humans will no longer be centre stage" says Suzanne Livingston
Artificial intelligence will take over from humans and force us to abandon our anthropocentric view of the world, curator and brand consultant Suzanne Livingston said at the Dezeen Day conference this week.
"We will no longer be centre stage," Livingston said during a panel discussion on the future of cities. Humans will have to accept being "surrounded by a diversity of intelligence," she added.
According to Livingston, who curated the AI: More than Human exhibition at the Barbican Centre this summer, this will be difficult for people living in western countries to accept, as they are used to an anthropocentric view of the world.
"In the west we will find this difficult," she explained. "We have a model of the self that is top down, in control, autonomous, rational and the highest form of evolutionary life." Suzanne Livingston spoke about AI at Dezeen Day
People in western cultures can learn from eastern notions like Shinto, the Japanese religion that does not distinguish between the individual and the community, to develop a relationship with technology that is less hierarchical, she said.
"According to eastern belief systems that we studied in the show, there are some very interesting other ways at looking at the relationship between humans and technology," said Livingston.
"Shinto is an animist religion and it has an idea of kami, or spirit, that puts humans, nature and technology all on the same plain," she sa...
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