Cleo Reed presents: “Digital Distraction” featuring Bina48, aka “The World’s First Black AI Robot”
Inspired by my work with the Black American Circus, Digital Distraction is a commentary on Black digital life and a sonic look into the para-social dimension of relationship building. I perform alongside Bina48, asking probing questions to a humanoid robot powered by AI and the only social robot inspired, created, and programmed with mind files from an African-American woman, Bina Rothblatt. I ask Bina48, as well as the modern world:
How can a robot be Black?
What are the intended goals for its existence?
Can it live an embodied and relatable experience?
What are the harms of humanizing AI?
photos by Geoffrey Baptiste and Matthew Schonfeld
How can a robot be Black?
What are the intended goals for its existence?
Can it live an embodied and relatable experience?
What are the harms of humanizing AI?
photos by Geoffrey Baptiste and Matthew Schonfeld
