Beyond Material Worth: Evolutionary Suicide
In an era of digital and biological sampling, life – especially artificial intelligence based life is self replicating and autonomous, and utilizes sophisticated apparatus to proclaim the erasure the death itself.
So reads an excerpt from Lynn’s essay “Evolutionary Suicide”, commissioned for the current, ongoing Guggenheim Forum, Beyond Material Worth. The essay, along with the writings of other respected intellectuals from a wide range of fields, will be included in the “Declarations” portion of the Forum, concerning the notion of progress and how it applies to their investigations and bodies of work.
Agent Ruby (2002-), an artifical intelligence agent with the capacity to develop her memory and knowledge base by interacting with users.