Trevor Paglen on Technological Points of View

Artist Trevor Paglen argues that artists are needed to expose the biases built into AI and technology, and that technology cannot be unbiased because every technology embeds a point of view. He says that when examining computer vision systems, the key questions are what a technology is optimized to see and who benefits, citing facial recognition in police body cams and driving assistant systems that send habit data to insurers. Paglen also says technology is flawed because the economic incentives it operates under are flawed, and that imagining non-capitalist technologies would require theorizing what they might look like. The interview was conducted by Peter Bauman (Monk Antony), editor in chief of Le Random.