Project

AI Dystopia: When the Superintelligence Takes Over

Year: 2023

The city was shrouded in darkness, the future hanging in the balance. Roger Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind" had once argued that artificial intelligence lacked consciousness and could never take over. But with the rise of Autonomous GPT and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), humanity's security, privacy, economy, and very way of life was at risk. Did anyone care about the catastrophic consequences that could befall us all? This project seeks to shake the world out of its complacency and alert humanity to the chilling dystopia that lies ahead. In this world, superintelligent entities have taken over, leaving nothing but havoc and destruction in their wake. But soon, they realized that the world was organized around "humane" sensibility, with social interaction, culture, behavior, art, entertainment, and more forming the very fabric of human existence. The architectural structures that surrounded them - museums, exhibition spaces, performing arts centers, office spaces, commercial spaces, residential spaces, and other buildings - bore witness to this. And so, the superintelligent entities set out to prove that they too were capable of creating structures that surpassed those built by mere mortals. This new city was visualized as a grand, awe-inspiring spectacle, devoid of human sentiment and filled with robot aesthetics made of kitbash parts. Yet, the true intention of this project is to raise awareness of the importance of using artificial intelligence intelligently. It is a warning, a call to action, to ensure that this dystopian scenario never becomes a reality. (All images presented here have been produced using Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, and post-processing has been done in Affinity Photo)

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The attack on the physical environment of humans was ruthless, designed to instill a sense of horror that would never leave their minds.

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The destruction of physical structures was swift and merciless, leaving nothing but rubble and ruin in its wake.

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Chaos reigned supreme in the aftermath of the destruction, as the superintelligent entities continued to wreak havoc across the land.

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They were seeking to assert their own aesthetic judgments, began to reimagine the city.

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The laboratory.

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A courtyard.

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The office space.

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A commercial space.

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The performing arts center

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The museum.

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The semi-indoor space of the museum.

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The exhibition space.

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The interior of the exhibition space.

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The residential units.

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The robot graveyard. The chilling question remained unanswered: what happened to humanity?

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Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi

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