The Guardian: Every new technology unsettles us because it confuses our boundaries. The radio announcer who appears in our living room; the movie star we see on a screen; the relative’s voice we hear on a phone: they all mix up our sense of the real and the imagined.
I can appreciate stories that involve AI in it more than stories by AI. As someone who is friends with a lot of playwrights and creatives, AI is a topic that comes up a lot. We joke about “clankers” and how “robots aren’t people”, but even though it comes up more as a joke, it is a very serious topic that involves the deterioration of human connection. I would be curious to know more about the polling aspect of Dead Air and how much AI they use in their programming or if they pre-wrote all the alternative storylines. I know that technology is an ever evolving part of theater and there are some aspects of it that people found controversial at first, like the use of projections. I am not always a fan of people’s use of projections in shows when they could be a physical effect of some kind, but sometimes it does add to the production level and you can do things that you wouldn’t be able to do with physical effects. However, AI and projections are not comparable in my mind. AI and most other production technologies are not comparable in my mind because AI takes all the humanity out of it, which I know can be a statement, but there are other ways to make that statement.
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