This presentation features three artists who use AI and ML tools in their work. Together they raise the question of what a critical AI practice might be. This conversation is an outcome of a workshop between artists, designers, and computer scientists held at DAAD Gallery Berlin in late 2019.

Rather than discuss an “ethics of AI” in relation to the intentions of the engineers and organisations who produce these technologies, Helena Nikonole, Marco Donnarumma, and Wesley Goatley discuss the individual responsibility of the critical practitioner in the use of these tools. They will present a series of considerations that have emerged out of their practices, and represent their (current) thinking on the use of ML/AI tools in critical art practice. These questions and provocations are intended to contribute to this ongoing discussion, both in the artists’ respective fields and in culture more widely.