Egor G. Kraft

Egor Geo. Kraft | 克夫斗 映治
Artist/Thinker*er | multi-award-winning
#ReverseArcheology #SyntheticHistoriography #Cognitecture #Softvereignty #EpisteMachinery

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

I imagine this kind of thing conveyed in this kind of clown way will be the central narrative of every populist rhetoric all over the place. Full-scale Copernican trauma, here we go.

[Big Brain AI @realBigBrainAI]

Comedian Ronny Chieng tells the Harvard Class of 2026 that their generation's real mission is to destroy AI:

Speaking at Harvard Class Day, Chieng pushes back on the standard graduation speech advice about embracing artificial intelligence.

He's not subtle about it: "AI, f**k AI."

He continues:

"It's stupid. It's so stupid. Have you tried using it? It's always wrong. Like, I asked AI what's the fastest way to get from New York City to Harvard, and it told me to take FlixBus. I'm a movie star. Hello. I don't take the bus."

Then @ronnychieng lays out the actual assignment:

"A lot of other respected graduation speakers and colleges around America are talking about you guys needing to master AI for the future. I'm here to tell you, the mission of your generation is to destroy AI. Kill it."

The plan, as he describes it, is borrowed wholesale from James Cameron:

"To accomplish this, you'll have to capture and reprogram an AI to be on the side of humanity, then commandeer its own time traveling technology, send it back to the past to defeat the current AI before it gains sentence. This isn't just Graduation Day. This is Terminator 2 Judgment Day."

Chieng anticipates the obvious objection — what about medical and scientific breakthroughs? He waves it off:

"First of all, shut up, nerd. I'm not talking about that. Obviously, if you're using it for that purpose, you're not the problem."

What he is talking about, he says, is something specific. He cites a 2025 MIT study published on "the accumulation of cognitive debt due to excessive use of large language models." His read on what's actually happening:

"I think AI is just gonna end up making mediocre people dumber..."

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@bratton Perhaps it’s been taken out by Military Keynesianism Scare. …not a very good title for a tweet-size angry book reviews account

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@bratton …jokes aside I can’t agree more to the critique

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@bratton I’d love to see both undergo de- & re-territorialisation into other forms. Although I quite admire Giacometti’s building of a Swiss pavilion, I reckon Switzerland will exist for another dozen centuries. Long live CH & other states lucky enough to secure a building in Giardini

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

Headed to China to hold a keynote at the Duke Kunshan University titled ‘Knowledgistics to Cognitectures’. Aside from Jiangsu, I will be visiting Shanghai, Hangzhou, Xi’An and eventually Beijing. Don’t hesitate to DM me if you’re around those places and would like to catch up.

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

Organised by @dock_digital_berlin, @designandcomputation, and eCommemoration
Supported by @technologiestiftung and @centerforliterature
Curated by @jonnybixbongers

CU

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

Glad to be part of Reclaiming Data, a symposium and exhibition examining how AI, datasets, and digital infrastructures are reshaping the ways we remember — and how the past is continuously reconstructed through them.

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

As archives shift from sites of preservation to operational systems that sort, model, and generate, the question is no longer just what is stored, but how history itself is produced.

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

looking forward to presenting at 'What Methods Do', an international symposium on the nature and role of methods in artistic research, their capacity to produce knowledge and to inform the agency of art in a societal context, organised by the Leiden University and Route Kunst

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@FairDataSociety @refikanadol A populist motto rather

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@refikanadol @FairDataSociety I know personally multiple brilliant individuals who dedicated their PhD theses to criticising large institutions (i.e. @MuseumModernArt ) for legitimating this ‘work’

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@refikanadol @FairDataSociety 🤦 allegedly the most overestimated ‘artist’ of our time. Whose work to many professionals and pioneers manifests “terrible taste”. And one who had been openly called out for stealing my work.

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

This is maddening

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police department. Not as a witness, expert or not, but as the accused. Accused of what?

Shortly after New Year’s, I appeared on a podcast organised by young people to answer their questions on everything that concerns Gen Z today: social media, the meaning of life, their job prospects, what I call technofeudalism etc. At some point, they asked me if I had ever used drugs. Determined not to do a Bill Clinton (remember the laughable “I didn’t inhale”?), I said I had. Apart from pot, I told them, I had one experience of taking ecstasy in Sydney 36 years ago. It was pleasant, I danced for 16 hours effortlessly but then, I added, it gave me a migraine for a week – and so I never used again. That was my introduction to making the point that, however pleasant drug taking may seem, there is a price to pay. And that the ultimate price is dependence, addiction – “the end of liberty”, I said emphatically.

Do you see where this is going? Yes, the Greek police have opened an investigation of me under the charge of... aiding and abetting the narco-mafia. [Do me a favour folks: Please don’t tell Trump, OK?]

Seriously now, at a time of war, genocide, stupendous exploitation and so on, my little trouble with the inane Greek police is neither here nor there. But it is important. Here, in Europe, many people still live under the illusion that we have liberty, rationality and freedom. We don’t. Dark forces are at work, pushing us into a postmodern version of the Dark Ages.

So, beware, people! They are out to take away the last remnants of autonomy and freedom we have left. Resistance is, literally, existence.

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@FatManTerra Your work on unpacking and channelling it all is now part of the history on the biggest scam and a new Wild West of finance’s computational transition. Thank you @FatManTerra

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@bratton @NoemaMag “—Why are you stuck in this Westphalian paradigm?” was my ‘favourite’ bit

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@PalantirTech = Skynet
Judgement Day = Ultimate Triumph of the US imperialism, when having won the world it turns inwards to wrap itself inside out (Just a thought)

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@FreightAlley Don't be silly. This is taking place in Russia, has in fact been executed by Ukrainians and has likely been developed by the likes of @PalantirTech Your own gov is behind the 'innovation'

[Egor G. Kraft @krft_id]

@BillAckman Don't be silly. This is taking place in Russia, has in fact been executed by Ukrainians and has likely been developed by the likes of @PalantirTech Your own gov is behind the 'innovation'