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![S4 [The Future Behind Us] E9: When an AI Governs Your City [w/ Pinar Yoldas]](https://cdn-images-3.listennotes.com/podcasts/tacticspractice/the-future-behind-us-ep-9-jqMgbt87WcV-a_5ulV4DTj3.1080x1080.jpg "S4 [The Future Behind Us] E9: When an AI Governs Your City [w/ Pinar Yoldas]")
Smart cities across the world are pioneering chatbots, autonomous vehicles and AI technologies to help streamline bureaucratic services, facilitate police recruitment, fill in potholes or locate resources at the library. Could algorithmic systems of control and governance be applied to all public services? Could an ultra-efficient AI kitten centralise and impersonate all the services, authorities and regulations that make a large city function? Artist, designer and academic Pinar Yoldas believes this is a plausible and perhaps desirable scenario. Why wouldn’t a loving and cute robot be better at running the lives of citizens than human high-ranking officials?
Pinar Yoldas
https://www.pinaryoldas.info
Speculative Biologies
https://www.pinaryoldas.info/WORK/Speculative-Biologies-2008
Kitty AI: Artificial Intelligence for Governance
https://www.pinaryoldas.info/The-Kitty-AI-Artificial-Intelligence-for-Governance-2016
Host: Régine Debatty
Guest: Pinar Yoldas
Recording: Régine Debatty
Music, editing and audio mix: Gašper Torkar
The Future Behind Us podcast series
Curated by: Régine Debatty
Coordinated by: Janez Fakin Janša
Produced by: Marcela Okretič
Production:
Aksioma | Institute for Contemporary Art Ljubljana, 2024
Part of:
PXXP•XXV: Speculation and Decay
Conceived and co-organised by:
Aksioma
For:
Pixxelpoint – 25th International Festival of Contemporary Art Practices
Produced and co-organised by:
Nova Gorica Arts Centre
In the framework of:
GO! 2025 – European Capital of Culture, Nova Gorica 2025
Supported by:
the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the Municipality of Nova Gorica
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