Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative
Artists from the Berkeley-based Odd Friend Studio installed a papier-mâché sculpture titled 'What Iceberg?' outside an OpenAI event to protest the company's leadership. The piece uses the metaphor of a sinking ship to criticize the wealth gap and the societal costs associated with rapid AI development.
Why it matters
It reflects growing public and artistic dissent regarding the concentration of power and potential negative externalities in the AI industry.
AI iceberg Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative New sculpture depicts AI leaders escaping a sinking ship.
6 Credit: William Fitzgerald Credit: William Fitzgerald Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Two artists from a Bay Area studio unveiled What Iceberg? , a table-sized installation placed at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday.
According to a description of the piece, the 5-foot-tall sculpture “shows OpenAI’s leaders and investors escaping a sinking ship with unimaginable wealth, while everyone else is left to face the cost of AI.”
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