<< Car Counterfactual >>

I’m running out of words
and yet, wait,
here is a set as if two back:
‘rearview mirror.’

Backsight is black arts
as self-driving driverless cars
are adorned with these smarts
rally a ‘really, what ‘s that’
what else could it be casted at

It’s a reflection of fail-safe
a legal view on one’s rear
as a transistor propagating regression
and a comfort zone rectifying retro vanity

Yet its host looks far further ahead
then it can answer, then it can roll
its anticipated public roads
halting stalemates with traffic-cones

LiDAR, camera, scanner galore
humans out the loop
so breaks shan’t be hit
when scanned rears meet front gears

It’s a future potential
for backward product
and advert placements
joining virtuality off pavements

“The rearview edge-computing mirror”
with touch screen for dog passengers
hanging tongues
catching wind, drooling by

now with built-in
transforming generative
smartness, networked
with all looking glasses around

we all rear better now
personalized connected cheer
and deflected fear
Ah words, as objects, sear

dear Hamlet without a prince
instead of wheels
rear me a horse
adorning rotten rearview mirrors

for your kingdom
looking back at your words
filling our ways with your fun
where yet so much else is to be done

                          —animasuri’24

<< Coined >>

what is the probability
for a real coin
balancing confidently
on its third side

a side circulating two corners
that rimming option few speak of,
an outcast transitional space
we can’t seem to make heads nor tails of

reality is made of it
and yet narrations digitize
unless someone coins
the obvious, too often unspoken

observers are defined
not only by reversals
of what is not seen
and by hyping what is

what raises our designs
beyond flatness raising
consciousness from backgrounds
out of the obvious

the beating side
where it grooves
with reeds and mills
counter counterfeiting

flatting out available
dimensions as depth
in online generation
as depth one probably has

index dimension one
stretch dimension two and half
look up dimension three
pass, present, foresee the fourth

don’t stop there
nor halt then
incalculably
explore

is mystery
that intuition
of the sciences
of betweens uncoined

—animasuri’24

<< Metanoia >>

an engineer was let go
for spiritual obfuscation
an ethicist was let go
for rational clarification

a department was closed
a task outsourced
a process scaled
and outputs hailed

a change in life
unnoticed by moose ‘p north
except melting of crossings
passing for boats

a penitence delegated
to bloated bellies or bones
displacement, replacements
warring lords, washed away shores

the digitizing wheels are churning
whales are burning
woodlands drift ashore
with daypasses for lore
and lithium, cobalt for more

amidst we stand
know and energize
not refuse nor confuse
act and move electrified

bring together or join
espy, not pause
insight to out side
not mourn till morn

we can move
balance analogy
conduct digitally
pause and judge
as we must

then let go
without flippancy
and with modesty
for our
human
immaturities.

                 —animasuri’24

<< Frippery >>

took a spatula to the louvre
scraping surfaces of mastery
as totems and animal fur powers
of art wear off onto human skin

style becomes ornamentation
of furloughed veneer as amputated
as amputated artistic multidimensionality
whence discernment’s funds run dry

subsumed in egos of bloated linearity
impromptus input from birth
now without pain with instant gain
nameless and drowned in other’s labor

cultural artifacts as trinkets
lacking textured layering
have you ever moved your hand
across a painting

touch and be touched
without being thrown
emotionally and
out of the gallery

flattened by pixels
It’s time to poke the fixtures
search skin for pores
identify bumps and scars

that’s where the arts lie

                      —animasuri’24

<< Merry Worker Mary >>

She has a thousand words well-weighted
more than present day pictures
generated in the millions

She is countless
more than the mathematical functions
running markets and subprime geopolitics

She gives immeasurably
more than the transnational reported data
ignoring the outlier old lady next door

She serves quietly, not subdued
louder than megaphones and limelight
yet fiercely, fist firm and thread strong

she is unnamed unseen yet in the face
the curtains hiding wizards, she is
the rows of workers outsourced, she seats

She echoes through what you don’t see
The glitches you don’t feel
The hell frozen over behind your screen

She calms the digital tsunami
the dark web kraken
she’s the tired keeper of our online seas

                            —animasuri’24

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triggers

Bales, A. (2023). Will AI avoid exploitation? Artificial general intelligence and expected utility theory. Philosophical Studies. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-023-02023-4 

Bhutani Vij, A. (2023). Women Workers Behind the AI Revolution: The Production and Reproduction of Data Annotation Platforms. ISBN9798380833219. Dissertation/thesis number 30567667. PhD Dissertation: University of Toronto, Ontario, CA, Canada. https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/women-workers-behind-ai-revolution-production/docview/2889570189/se-2?accountid=14511 

Goetze, T. S. (2024). AI Art is Theft: Labour, Extraction, and Exploitation, Or, On the Dangers of Stochastic Pollocks. arXiv.Org. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2401.06178

Morreale, F., Bahmanteymouri, E., Burmester, B., Chen, A., & Thorp, M. (2023). The unwitting labourer: extracting humanness in AI training. AI & Society. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01692-3 

Nedzhvetskaya, Nataliya, and J.S. Tan. (2022). The Role of Workers in AI Ethics and Governance. IN: The Oxford Handbook of AI Governance, edited by Justin B. Bullock, Yu-Che Chen, Johannes Himmelreich, Valerie M. Hudson, Anton Korinek, Matthew M. Young, and Baobao Zhang. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197579329.013.68.

Sioufi, V. (2023, November-December). The Workers AI Hides: Hundreds of Canadian workers are training artificial intelligence for pennies. Briarpatch52(6), 22-26. Briarpatch Inc. https://www.proquest.com/magazines/workers-ai-hides/docview/2888647145/se-2?accountid=14511 AND https://link-gale-com.libproxy.ucl.ac.uk/apps/doc/A773244702/AONE?u=ucl_ttda&sid=bookmark-AONE&xid=d31a73ef 

Toby Jia-Jun Li, Lu, Y., Clark, J., Chen, M., Cox, V., Jiang, M., Yang, Y., Kay, T., Wood, D., & Brockman, J. (2022). A Bottom-Up End-User Intelligent Assistant Approach to Empower Gig Workers against AI Inequality. arXiv.Org. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2204.13842 

<< Post-Pest Poem >>

For a minute, imagine
this poem’s an anti-Pandora’s box
a jar, really; owned

by an artificially-made being
—and made is always artificial
through the lens of its maker—

what one puts in one takes out
unmeasured, unpoliced, adrift,
it’s a life’s fest really, ‘tween give n take

this Pandora’s anti-blackbox
while open and transparent
makes us, breaks us,

re-joints our limbs
foresighted, hindsighted, shortsighted
trims time and space to wimps n wins

we know of hope
we still wield fire
you can’t see all of it

you can see
but in eyes of others
you can sense
from their full body radiation

if you let these
expectations
give to them,
there is infinity to give

As kefir it flowers
poetically out of desire
out of shape, out of containment

out of time, out of will out of sounds
in of as enough as you want as much
out of Works and Days, out of output

never out of greed out of hate
not out of dissolution nor disillusion
as olden gods out of resentment

a poem if technology,
as Pandora’s of such complexity
it could seem as godlike magic

a large language engine with words
as pestilence confused by its makers
building take-machines out of insecurities

yes we can put,
into that jar,
anything we want,

it mustn’t be diseased
nor deserved
anything actually

can
be
served

                     —animasuri’24



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triggers

Ballester, P. L. (2023). Open Science and Software Assistance: Commentary on “Artificial Intelligence Can Generate Fraudulent but Authentic-Looking Scientific Medical Articles: Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25(1), e49323–e49323. https://doi.org/10.2196/49323

Cooper, A., & Rodman, A. (2023). AI and Medical Education – A 21st-Century Pandora’s Box. The New England journal of medicine, 389(5), 385–387. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2304993 AND https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37522417/

Eglinton, T., Tranter-Entwistle, I., & Connor, S. (2023). Artificial intelligence in medicine: Promethean moment or Pandora’s box? New Zealand Medical Journal, 136(1582), 11–13.

Li, R., Kumar, A., & Chen, J. H. (2023). How Chatbots and Large Language Model Artificial Intelligence Systems Will Reshape Modern Medicine: Fountain of Creativity or Pandora’s Box? JAMA Internal Medicine, 183(6), 596–597. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamainternmed.2023.1835

Liu, N., & Brown, A. (2023). AI Increases the Pressure to Overhaul the Scientific Peer Review Process. Comment on “Artificial Intelligence Can Generate Fraudulent but Authentic-Looking Scientific Medical Articles: Pandora’s Box Has Been Opened.” Journal of Medical Internet Research, 25(1), e50591–e50591. https://doi.org/10.2196/50591

Mayor, A., Project Syndicate. (2018). Artificial Intelligence. What Pandora’s Box tells us about AI. Blog: World Economic Forum (WEF).
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2018/10/an-ai-wake-up-call-from-ancient-greece/

Nath. K. A., Conway, N., Fonseca, R. (2024). AI in Peer Review: Publishing’s Panacea or a Pandora’s Box of Problems? IN: Mayo Clinic Proceedings. January 2024;99(1):10-12 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2023.11.013 AND https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(23)00561-X/fulltext

Pariser, E. (2011). The Filter Bubble: what the internet is hiding from you. Penquin Books.

<< System Inclusive >>

The architect sat down
satisfied. She had created
the ultimate system

The supreme structure
that what included all
detailed to Boson and spring

appreciate that leaf
smell driving by
with Doppler effect

attenuated, amplified
even nothing was included
at the right amount,

The architect created this
Planet B minor, silencing
where it was plugged in

                          —animasuri’24

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triggers

Coleman, J. (2023). AI’s Climate Impact Goes beyond Its Emissions. To understand how AI is contributing to climate change, look at the way it’s being used. Online: Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com.

The New Real, Edinburgh Futures Institute & Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh’s Festivals, The Alan Turing Institute. Adam Harvey, Inés Cámara Leret, Keziah MacNeill, The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), Towards Turing 2.0, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). (2024). The New Real Observatory. Online: Ars Electronica Garden Edinburgh. https://ars.electronica.art/planetb/en/new-real-observatory/

OECD (2022), Measuring the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence compute and applications: The AI footprint. Online: OECD Digital Economy Papers, No. 341, OECD Publishing, Paris https://doi.org/10.1787/7babf571-en AND https://read.oecd.org/10.1787/7babf571-en?format=pdf

Stikker, M., Carter, G., van der Waal, S., van Dijk, D., Rasmussen, J., van den Horn, C., Custers, C., van Zoest, T., Drosten, T., Schepers, A., Otjens, A., Loos, L., Vermeer, F., van der Molen, B., Hoogenboom, P., Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschap. (2021-2025). Expedition to Planet B. Online: WAAG Future Lab for Technology and Society. https://waag.org/en/project/expedition-planet-b/

Vinuesa, R., Azizpour, H., Leite, I., Balaam, M., Dignum, V., Domisch, S., Felländer, A., Langhans, S. D., Tegmark, M., & Fuso Nerini, F. (2020). The role of artificial intelligence in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. Nature Communications, 11(1), 233–10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14108-y

Ye, Z., Yang, J., Zhong, N., Tu, X., Jia, J., Wang, J., (2020). Tackling environmental challenges in pollution controls using artificial intelligence: A review, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 699, 2020, 134279, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134279. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969719342627)

<< The Anti-Algorithm >>

If innovation is change
within the status quo
of those too great to fail

while staining set sequencing,
neuronormativity scaled to efficiency,
then algo-agendas are not set by the learner

would then sets of anti-algorithms,
purposely forsaking logic in transit,
popping bubbles outside the obvious

is that innovation
of people, with people, by people
is then innovation a philosophy of resistance

if so, who can flip a switch
on in-vitro-worlds
of subpar socio-digital derivatives

altering paths predefined
resetting the automated repeat button
of scaled “resetting to the year zero”

reinventing wheels while shifting baseline
adding to a syndrome, again to again:
powerplay veiled as insight with pseudo-criticality

enlightenments as excitin’mensch
centrisms with on and off switches
some humans or echoes in the loop

deciding to keep tabs
decided for, to leave the room
undecidedly unknowingly ignorant

where shall you be at
when one turns on the light
whatever it is, are you for it

                             —animasuri’24

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Triggers

AlgorithmWatch. (2023, Oct.). Can you break the algorithm? AlgorithmWatch releases an online game on algorithmic accountability journalism. Players act as a journalist who researches the details of a social network’s algorithm. https://algorithmwatch.org/en/ AND https://algorithmwatch.github.io/can-you-break-the-algorithm/#/

Allyn, B. (2024). Examining the growing movement against the algorithms that control our lives. Podcast: NPR. https://www.npr.org/2024/02/06/1229405652/examining-the-growing-movement-against-the-algorithms-that-control-our-lives

Broussard, M. (2020, Sep 8). When Algorithms Give Real Students Imaginary Grades. In-person final exams were canceled for thousands of students this spring, so computers stepped in — to disastrous effect. Online: Opinion, New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/opinion/international-baccalaureate-algorithm-grades.html

Chung, A. W. (2020). Subverting the algorithm: Examining anti-algorithmic tactics on social media. Master of Science Thesis, MIT. https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/477814764-Anna-Chung-Subverting-the-Algorithm-Examining-Anti-Algorithmic-Tactics-on-Social-Media.pdf

Prof. Knox, J. (2024, Feb.). ‘Critical Studies of AI and Education’ online symposium. “resetting to the year zero” https://www.edtech.ut.ee/csaied/introducing-the-symposium/

New, J. (2019). Being Progressive Shouldn’t Mean Being Anti-Algorithm. Blog: Center for Data Innovation. https://datainnovation.org/2019/07/being-progressive-shouldnt-mean-being-anti-algorithm/

Dr. WSA. “purposely forsaking logic in transit“. Thank you.
into LinkedIn

Wenger, K. (2023). Is the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?: A Layperson’s Guide to the Concepts, Math, and Pitfalls of AI. Working Fires Foundation.

Additional References:

Airoldi, M. (2022). Machine Habitus. Toward a Sociology of Algorithms. Medford, MA, USA: Polity Press

Ciccone, M. (2021). Algorithmic Literacies: K-12 Realities and Possibilities. In Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children. https://doi.org/10.1162/ba67f642.646d0673 AND https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/algorithmic-literacies/release/1

Dasgupta, S., & Hill, B. M. (2021). Designing for Critical Algorithmic Literacies. In Algorithmic Rights and Protections for Children. https://doi.org/10.1162/ba67f642.646d0673. AND https://wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/designing-for-critical-algorithmic-literacies/release/1

Fry, H. (2018). Hello World, Being Human in the Age of Algorithms. New York, USA: Norton.

Noble, S. U. (2018). Algorithms Of Oppression. How Search Engines Reinforce Racism. New York, USA: NYU Press

Phillips, L. L.,  Sarah Warren-Riley, S., Collins Bates, J. (2024). Grassroots Activisms Public Rhetorics in Localized Contexts. Columbus, USA: Ohio State University Press. (Open Access) https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/87743/external_content.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Taylor, A. (2014). The people’s platform: taking back power and culture in the digital age. Toronto, Canada: Random House.

<< Bruto Network >>

As above ground mycelia
—largest succulent horizontal trees of life—
mesh more Honey Mushroom
on homely Planet A, mesh more

— note: wink, listen, give joy—

slithering to the gates
creeping in the wood to carved doors
silently across the Western fronts
and where compost may lay

—note: critique, be within Earth, reflect—

tech bros building concrete brute bunkers
gold bars, pellets, bullets and jars
fearing what they feast on
fencing fancying fable and farce

— note: breathe, pause, give space—

toying inorganic creating animation
foiling organic modeling replication
geeking the germs as molds in moulds
of topsoil stainless steel, math-neurons and codes

—note: debate, relate what is needed—

here is democracy, is anti-minus
all inclusive, all mined, all open
to misses, disses and malles
as trunks, as sticks, containing truths

—note: stop, look, smell, act for others to become—

beating actualities, containing realities representing fasces as infomercials
to want, urge, need, and faint agency
forced to overjoy and overwhelm as spores

—note: smile, just smile, all iz well—

Welcome to the underbelly
unfolded for-all, summarizing air
generating flair on call,
making choice easy, too, some say

—note: be a Water-bear, a Spanish Dancer, be you, and let be any totem—

be mycelium brother
be mycelium sister


living, more as ever,
now is still,
to be
your art

—animasuri’24

—-•
trigger

India Arie. (2001). Back To The Middle. IN: Acoustic Soul.

<< Recipe for Rule >>

if imagination rims
it is a model of mind’s running

as much as running
decompletes geometries

and geometries might
lessen lines decomposed

pointing out
higher dimensions

to a dot

say dot

convinced as your lover and claimed
to recreate imagination

as if a finding of the century
compared to the greats

equated even
enunciated to inflate

make all believe
sanity is a concentrate

in
you

            —animasuri’24