artificial intelligence

An Uncomfortable Technology (Part I)

By Jorge Camacho Enthusiasm and Concern Surrounding Generative AI Some time ago, in November 2025, New York Times technology columnist Kevin Roose posted a comment on X about the widespread interest sparked by studies such as those from MIT and METR, which many people interpreted as evidence casting doubt on the impact of the first deployments of h

Rewriting the Future of AI 2027: Where Does Latin America Stand?

The hand that moves the pen

On Handwriting, Language Models, and Literary Practice: Some Notes on Mario Levrero’s Novel *El discurso vacío*. What Can the Uruguayan Author Tell Us About Creative Writing in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?

Knowledge is distributed

Afrofuturism, Artificial Intelligence, and Community By Antoinette Torres Soler I was introduced to Afrofuturism through a short story by Du Bois. “The Comet,” one of his lesser-known stories, imagines a catastrophe that devastates New York and leaves, for a moment, a Black man and a white woman alive. In that moment of apocalypse, the Black man can be human. He can have a human relationship. He can ex

AI and Mediocrity: The Invisible Danger

Digital Extractivism

Algorithmic Elections

-By Javier Wong Q.- Social media is the most widely used medium in Latin America for staying informed about politics. In the pursuit of likes and views, the dangers of false and misleading narratives loom over voters. Emotion goes viral, metrics rule, and algorithms are the minefield through which voters navigate. Who has the vote d

If it's free, you're the product

-By Elsie Ralston- From Television to the Algorithm Long before the “Like” button, before infinite scrolling, and before Silicon Valley turned the word “engagement” into a metric of power, American artist Richard Serra formulated an equation that has taken on absolute relevance in the digital age. In 1973, together with Carlota Fay Schoolman, he presented the video essay *Television Delive*

Cartographies of the Detour

-Nicolás Madoery, from the Global South- What does it mean to imagine from the margins? *Cartographies of the Detour* is a series of brief but meaningful interviews that seek to balance critical depth with humanity, from a perspective rooted in the Global South and for the Global South. In this conversation with Nicolás Madoery, we explore how to design cultural futures in a digital ecosystem dominated by the logic of ext

Beyond the Algorithm: Resistance and Digital Sovereignty in the Global South

Algorithms are not neutral. They have an accent, a genealogy, and a colonial memory. In the Global South, where technology often arrives packaged as an inevitable fate, resistance begins by dismantling its promises and reclaiming its infrastructure.

Reclaiming the Internet: Toward a Post-Naive, Pluriversal Web

From the narrative of inevitability to the collective construction of human infrastructure.

“AI Artists”: Between Plagiarism and Art Direction

By Cristian Situ Generative artificial intelligence has burst onto the scene as a cultural revolution unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. Tools such as Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, Nano Banana, and others can generate in seconds images that once required years of artistic practice. On social media, users who bring these images to life through prompts already refer to themselves as—or are celebrated as—:

Designing in the Face of Uncertainty: When Design Becomes a Compass

By Abel Valdez “We designers often focus too much on the object being designed, and not enough on the system within which it operates.” — Don Norman, *The Design of Everyday Things*. In contexts where uncertainty is the norm rather than the exception, design begins to take on a role different from the one traditionally attributed to it. It is not merely a matter of beautifying, communicating, or cr

Should we use ChatGPT in the Global South?

On the Feedback of Implicit Biases in Generative AI on the Identities of the Global South