Digital commission by Bildmuseet: infiniteprayer.com
Could AI technology be used for peace-making instead of war? Almost every day the news reports that AI is making warfare increasingly efficient through the use of drones and other automated weapon systems that in part erode and remove human agency and responsibility. The online artwork Infinite Prayer for Peace is a manifestation of the idea of using AI to promote peace instead of war.
Canadian novelist and journalist Stephen Marche has created this AI-generated text-based work, which invites visitors to use their voice to call to the powers that be in the name of peace. The work is based on a large language model trained on various religions’ prayers for peace to generate thousands of statements of the basic human desire to end the insanity of war. A new prayer is displayed once every minute. Infinite Prayer for Peace is Bildmuseet’s first online commission. Stephen Marche is based in Toronto, Canada.
Commissioned by Bildmuseet with support from the Jacob Wallenberg Foundation. Part of the exhibition AI and the Paradox of Agency
