Human Trials by Rashed Haq

Assembly presents "Human Trials" by Rashed Haq, a collection of portraits of people who do not exist, created between 2016-2020, using an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm. We live in a world of ubiquitous networked communication and generate a tremendous amount of data as many of our interactions are digitized. Algorithms sift through this data to make sense of who we are, and assign to us a gender, ethnicity, age, education level, class, marital status, entertainment and shopping preferences, and even identification as a terrorist. This invisible system shapes our lives, often without us knowing. These can come in the form of recommendation engines or decision engines. AI often genera...View all