• ARTIFICIAL AGENCY
  • DIY BIOACOUSTICS
  • OCCHIO
  • FUTURE FORECASTING FOR THE DESIGNER
  • ETHICS, TRANSHUMANISM
  • ARTIFICIAL
    AGENCY

  • Companies selling prosthetics with embedded AI systems already exist (Blatchford - UK, Össur - Iceland).
    What if the algorithm would prevent the user from performing certain actions which are deemed unlayful or "unethical"?

    This is a project which shows the dychotomic nature of persuasive technology.

  • Artificial Agency is a future company which manufactures prosthetics and augmented limbs, with embedded artificial intelligence which might prevent the user from performing "unethical" actions.

    Is overriding a person's free will ever ethically acceptable?
    In this context, who decides what is ethical/unethical?
    If there isn’t an essential, contextually aware ethical algorithm, how can these problems be resolved?

  • To understand how heteronomous control feels like, I built a wearable device which through electromyography understands when the wearer is about to swing a punch and prevents the action by activating a TENS (transcuteneous electrical nerve stimulation) machine which cases the bicep and tricep to contract, effectively deviating the blow.