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Creation Date
2025
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Two years ago Elon Musk warned "AI..has the potential—non-trivial—of civilizational destruction" (Fox News interview, April 2023). My video "When Vermeer met AI" displays Johannes Vermeer-styled artworks gradually transforming in illustration of the recent report of large language AI models cloning themselves (Pan et al, 2024), the trobling first demonstration of AI systems self-replicating and freeing themselves from human control. My video's AI-generated images portray the potentially catastrophic effects of unfettered AI presented with the background score of the Renaissance song "Une jeune fillette," evoking the melancholy of being forced into a painful life path.
Frederick M Jacobsen, MD (April 2025)
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