Arif Kornweitz - PhD candidate and part of the KIM RESEARCH GROUP on critical artificial intelligence at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where he researches (in)compatibilities between AI ethical standards and humanitarian ethics, focusing on the principle of 'first, do no harm'. Arif teaches courses in critical design, drawing from posthumanist thinking, that result in exhibitions and publications. This year he has been teaching at DESIGNLAB at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
In this round table discussion, we will explore how the human rating system creates a numeric value reflected in number of likes, number of YouTube reproductions, social media metrics and the way that platforms and apps have created a system of hierarchies and strata to measure life’s worth. We will discuss how through this human ratings system the logic of the algorithm intervenes in human subjectivity expanding the project of valuation of human life that has been instrumental to the capitalist administration of life itself.