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Who Gets to Interpret You? | The Machine-Readable Self

Who Gets to Interpret You? | The Machine-Readable Self30 jul9 min

What happens when identity stops being something we declare and becomes something machines infer? In this specially assembled edition of The Future of You, Tracey Follows returns to four conversations that reveal how the self is becoming machine-readable. Artist and AI pioneer Holly Herndon explains why anything captured in media can become training data. Journalist Kashmir Hill traces the rise of searchable facial recognition and the danger of infrastructure built for security being used for...