Kaush-K

DECISION BOUNDARIES

Recent years have seen AI applications deployed in a number of socially sensitive contexts, such as credit scoring, criminal justice, and military operations. These domains frequently involve high-stakes decisions with significant impact on the lives of those involved.

Central to contemperory AI's decision making process is the decision boundary, the restrictions which separate those decisions that should be taken and those that should not. This artworks portrays the role that decision boundaries play in demarcating what or who fits into one side of the decision making process. Biases in the data distorting this boundary from its intended form in often unnoticed ways are represented by the contours around the AI-generated bodies.

This series aims to remind us of the temptation to grant algorithms decision-making authority in socially sensitive applications and how that can undermine our ability to hold powerful individuals and groups accountable for their technologically-mediated actions.