3D animation by <n>Justus Steinfeldt</n>.

Digital illustration by <n>malota</n> for <n>Therapy Brands</n>.

An illustration by <n>Derek Abella</n> for <n>BuzzFeed News</n>, with art direction by <n>Olive Burd</n>.

Film for <n>MAC Cosmetics</n> directed by <n>Deon Hinton</n>, featuring <n>Parker Kit Hill</n> and <n>Oyinda</n>.

<n>entropy</n>, an abstract work of <n>generative art</n> created with creative coding.

Illustration by <n>Ham Young-gi</n> for the book cover of <n>Choi Jae-cheon's Study</n>.

Visual identity for <n>Freeform</n>, 2024.

Aerial view of trees in the wind by <n>Rico Castrovillari</n>, November 2024.

A still from the film <n>“Regeneração”</n> for <n>Natura</n>, directed by <n>Ariela Dorf</n> in Manaus.

A scene from the 1968 film <n>2001: A Space Odyssey</n>.

Staring by illustrator <n>Giacomo Bagnara</n>.

Positive Alphabet for Ace&Tate - Miguel Ángel Camprubí

A still from <n>Carly Gibert</n>'s music video "<n>Dropping Seeds</n>" (2023), directed by <n>Lu</n>.

A scene from the 2013 anime film <n>The Garden of Words</n> by director <n>Makoto Shinkai</n>.

To think about AI without thinking about capitalism, fascism, and liberty isn’t just incomplete — it’s dangerous. It blinds us to the real stakes of the transformation happening around us, encouraging us to focus on the technology rather than the systems that control it and the ends toward which it’s deployed.  Is it possible to conceive of AI that is “good” — as in distributed, not centralized; protective of intellectual property, not a light-speed pirate of the world’s creative output; respectful of privacy, not a listening agent of the powers-that-be; selectively and intentionally deployed where humans need the help, not a leveler of human purpose? (Anil Dash has some great points about this.) Perhaps, but such an AI is fundamentally incompatible with the system in which the AI we have has been created.  As AI advances, we face a choice: Will we allow it to become another tool for concentrating power and wealth? Or will we insist upon human dignity and liberty? The answer depends not on technological developments, but on our collective willingness to recognize AI for what it is: not a force of nature, but a product of flawed human choices embedded in vulnerable human systems.

A still from a film for musician <n>Novo Amor</n>.

Photograph of Kyoto, Japan by <n>Ernst Haas</n>, 1981.

<n>Swipe Culture</n> (2018), a digital illustration by <n>Syddharth Mate</n>.

Visual identity for <n>Onix Hotels</n> featuring the <n>PP Räder</n> font by <n>Pangram Pangram Foundry</n>.

Yuki Kon (@ikuynok) on Threads

A brand image for <n>CHROM haircare</n> celebrating human diversity.

<n>Heatwave</n>, an artwork by <n>Danaé Gosset</n> with music by <n>Kiran & Timotée</n>.

Illustration by <n>Andrea Manzati</n> for the money transfer app <n>Send by Flutterwave</n>.

Music by composer duo <n>Kiran & Timotée</n>.