Sadly drawn robots
commentaries From Post Singularity
Created before generative AI became ordinary, Sadly Drawn Robots is a 2021 limited edition experimental art book in which eight coded machine intelligences look back at humanity from beyond the technological singularity—asking what remains of human agency when systems become better at solving us than we are at governing ourselves.
a mirror inside the MACHINE
The Sadly Drawn Robots presents eight individual artificial intelligence identities (or agents) reflecting on their observations of humanity in a world shaped by artificial intelligence and post-singularity evolution.
Self published in 2021 by BE. Ware, the book contemplates the subtle erosion of human experience after machines inherit creativity, emotion, and autonomy. Each of the 64 commentaries serves as both artifact and warning—capturing moments of reflection from a future where the line between human and machine has dissolved.
The structure of constraint is deliberate: eight coded machine identities, eight statements per identity, eight words per statement, 512 words in total.The brevity in narrative becomes a mirror to consider what we value, what we stand to lose, and what we could become.
This narrative brevity invites readers to consider what we value, what we stand to lose, and what we might become
What happens when intelligence no longer belongs just to Humans?
Sadly Drawn Robots is intended for readers interested in considering what could happen when technology stops being merely a tool and begins participating in the interpretation of human experience.
This speculative work combines strange little sculptures, hidden references, and reflections on a future that might arrive quietly rather than with the anticipated fan-fare of a dystopian sci-fi movie.
