
VIII · Present questions and labelled scenarios
The choices
Which decisions about AI still belong to us?
The instruments in this exhibition were made by people who chose their goals. Rules were chosen for legibility, examples for coverage, prediction for scale. Each choice left something unresolved: cases nobody wrote down, examples nobody collected, outputs nobody checked. The choices ahead are of the same kind, and the technology does not settle them. Who decides what a model is for, and who answers for it when it acts? Which measures of success count: accuracy on a benchmark, harm avoided, energy used, people paid fairly for the data they produced? Should capability be released as fast as it is built? Researchers disagree in public about how much risk the current path carries, and the disagreements are worth reading in their own words. This is not a prediction of where the story goes. It is a fork with the paths unlit, and the lamps are held by people.