Spike - Issue 77 (Autumn 2023): AI

Spike is one of the world’s most influential art magazines, mixing writing on themes urgent and forever unresolved. Published quarterly by the artist Rita Vitorelli, it is also visually splashy, by turns pushy, poetic, unexpected – and not shy to start an argument. 

Spike’s Autumn issue is decoding AI, beginning with the age-old question of what intelligence is. As the technology crashes into our old psychic and social structures, where is AI nudging creativity, labor, and politics? Maybe it’s a cheat code to liberate us from work and lead us to impossible-to-imagine visions, or maybe it will condemn us to do more minimum-wage jobs while the robots write poems and paint. Grab your copy to find out if we’re headed for evolution or extinction – wouldn’t you like to know?