Piotr Mirowski

Really honoured to have participated, alongside Rida Qadri, to this @britishcouncil.bsky.social report on exploring the importance of artists, cultural organisations, and creative industries to technological advancement.
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

Alpha Go_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice | Battersea Arts Centre

Visionary theatre director Natalia Korczakowska from Teatr Studio invites you to witness her open research and rehearsal of “AlphaGo_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice”. Extremely lucky to join her cast of creatives to discuss limits, ethics and potential of LLMs in writing.

bac.org.uk/whats-on/alp...

With gratitude to Google Research/Arts & Culture/DeepMind, Katherine Heller, Andrew Smart, Kory Mathewson, Chelsey Fleming, Pamela Peter-Agbia, Eva Kozanecka, Xiao Ma and Shakir Mohamed, and above all Aroussiak Gabriellan, Farbod Mehr, Fuchsia Hart, Huma Gupta, Morehshin Allahyari, Pamela Karimi.

We just published and presented our findings in a sociotechnical AI research paper at Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2025): “AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue", jointly authored by Rida Qadri, Remi Denton and yours truly.

Using the Persian Gulf as a case, we worked with 3 visual artists and 3 experts from cultural institutions, engaging in a longitudinal study and dialogue, moving away from “datasets” to curated archives, and showcasing how local art communities can redesign AI to be more culturally-relevant.

AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Generative AI tools used in art production should be evaluated by the broader art world of artists, art historians and curators, to integrate culturally-specific critique and to re-imagine these tools to suit the artists’ needs.
dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

Special Sessions - ICSR 2025 Special Sessions ICSR 2025

Interdisciplinary CfP:
"Robots on Stage: Performative Practices, Experimentation and Human–Machine Social Interaction"
@ Social Robotics ICSR'25
📅☕ 18 April (submission)
🇮🇹🏛️ Naples, Italy
🤖🎉 10-12 September (conference)
icsr2025.eu/special-sess...

So far, 2,135 people have responded to the poll Søren and I posted a few days ago. Of those, 94.4% replied “Yes” to being interested in officially presenting accepted @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers in Europe. (1/7)

Mindfix and Friendly Fire are the brainchildren of the fantastic artist and filmmaker Manuel Flurin Hendry, who just defended his PhD at ZHdK on AI chatbots and the history of phrenology and the science of emotions.
hendry.me

www.mindfix.ai

Supported by Stadt Zürich Kultur, die Mobiliar, Fachstelle Kultur Kanton Zürich, Speech Graphics, Schlachthaus Theater Bern, DIZH, Ernst Göhner Stiftung and ZHdK Zürcher Hochschule der Künste.

Produced by Silicon Stories. Team: Meredith Thomas, Paulina Zybinska, Norbert Kottmann, Linus Jacobsson, martin fröhlich, Patrick Karpiczenko, Florian Bruggisser, Piotr Mirowski, Stella Speziali, Domenico Ferrari and Gunter Loesel.

Our superior algorithms heal any psychological issue in just 8 minutes - an efficiency gain of over 20000%. The audience can now test this groundbreaking invention at Kulturhaus Helferei.
AI can fix everything! So why not fix your feelings?
#ai #performance #solutionism #satire #theatre #zurich

Friendly Fire at the Shrink Your Soul Deserves A Sportscar.

Uncomfortably excited to announce that I joined the board of Swedish startup Mindfix, revolutionising mental healthcare through #AI #chatbot #therapy. Currently raising seed VC round 4 series D capital at Kulturhaus Helferei in Zürich.
www.friendlyfire.art