There are artists who use AI as a tool, and there are artists who seek to understand AI itself. @trevorpaglen chose understanding. For Paglen, AI is not just a collection of technical systems designed to perform tasks; it’s a set of cultural and political elements embedded within those systems, shaping the way they learn and interpret the world. When we talk about "unsupervised learning," it means we’re letting the AI model learn and make connections based on patterns it perceives in data. But exactly what it learns and how it interprets those patterns is often unknown, even to the creators of the AI. In this way, AI is not entirely neutral; it reflects biases, histories, and ideologies ingrained in the data it’s trained on. ↓ Below is a video created by @MuseumModernArt, featuring a project where Paglen reveals hidden assumptions in AI systems or investigates how AI shapes human perception.