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How much human labour is involved in "artificial" intelligence? Artist Anna Ehrenstein and AI researcher Ariana Dongus explore this question in conversation.

The discussion builds on Ehrenstein's exhibition The Language of the Soil, which examines the infrastructures of AI and the working conditions on which they are based. The project is based on ongoing research and collaborations with digital workers and practitioners, including Richard Mathenge, Mophat Okinyi and Fasica Berhane, as well as other participants in Nairobi and Cairo.

Rather than portraying AI as autonomous or immaterial, the conversation situates AI systems within existing labour networks, colonial histories, extractive processes and the global platform economy. Ehrenstein and Dongus also reflect on questions of authorship, the political dimensions of AI and how artistic practice can address and challenge these structures.

Author and researcher Yaniya Lee will moderate the discussion.

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