AIxxNOSOGRAPHIES

As AI is tested for use in every sector of society, we peer into the near future through an interview with the chief researcher of a medical regulatory body to learn how they have dealt with issues arising from the implementation of AI in healthcare.

The installation is a remix of material generated during Petrič’s artistic research covering the topic of automation of care (2021–present). It includes an audio map on the use of synthetic data in medical training created by Reon Cordova and a visual map outlining actors associated with AI-assisted genetic screening of newborns for metabolic diseases authored by Janita Chen. The multibody perspectives that appear in the video are selected field note testimonies by amateur ethnographers collected during Performative Ethnographies that took place at Erasmus Medical Center (November 2021), University Hospital Bonn (February 2023), and University Medical Center Groningen (May 2023).

20203 |Concept: Špela Petrič | Performer: Ira Brand | Assistance: Reon Cordova | Video and editing: Rob van Pelt | Design: Miha Turšič | Additional footage: Carla Zamora | Map of CAPICE - AI applications in genetic newborn screening for metabolic diseases (within ELSA-NN): Janita Chen | Audio map of Synthetic Data (within ELSA-NN): Reon Cordova |Host institutions: Institute for Science and Ethics, University of Bonn, University Hospital Bonn, University Medical Center Groningen, Kepler University Hospital Linz, Elisabethinen Hospital Linz |

Thank you: Partners: ELSA AI Lab Northern Netherlands, Bonn Sustainable AI Lab, Ars Electronica, V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media; People: Dr. Aimee van Whynsberghe, Dr. Jan Arensmeyer, Dr. Mirjam Plantinga, Dr. Judith van der Elst, Laura Welzenbach, Dr. Helmut Pürerfellner, Dr. Andreas Götte, Dr. Günther Kolb, Dr. Ines Gröner, Albert Bernhard, Scheidleder Christoph, Peter Eckmüller, and all the amateur ethnographers participating in Performative Ethnographies: 3x3: Infrastructural Empathy and the Shimmer of Medical Centers, 19.11.2021, V2_ and Erasmus Medical Center; Meeting Dexter the Surgical Robot, 7.2.2023, University Hospital Bonn; Newborn Genetic Screening, 23.5.2023, Genetics Department, University Medical Center Groningen; Fluttering Hearts, 7.9.2023, Elisabethinen Hospital Linz | Produced by: Ars Electronica, 2023 | Supported by: Deutsche Telekom and Creative Industries Fund NL

This project was developed in the framework of the ArtScience Residency enabled by the Deutsche Telekom in partnership with Ars Electronica and the support of Sustainable AI Lab of the University Bonn.

This project is also part of the project ELSA AI lab Northern Netherlands (ELSA‐NN) (with project number NWA.1332.20.006) of the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA) AI Synergy programme ‘Artificial Intelligence: Human-centred AI for an inclusive society – towards an ecosystem of trust’ which is partly financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).