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Keep Smiling is an online interactive experience in the form of a job interview conducted by an AI agent. The agent asks the participant to smile, to smile even more, and to count objects she/he can see through a nearby window while con- tinuing to smile (the system intends to extract the maximum profit from the hu- man participant). Throughout this interaction the participant’s face is detected via a webcam and the smile is rated against a happiness meter. As soon as the participant’s smile rating drops below average, she/he is fired and the interview is terminated. The artwork draws attention to the highly automated and moni- tored world in which the responsibility for making decisions has been handed to machines and algorithms, and our emotions are evaluated without our consent. By interacting with the artwork we can experience just how unreliable an emo- tion detection algorithm can be despite its widespread deployment in our every- day lives. The artwork incorporates a number of elements from the AI industry, illustrating how decision-making and labour culture have been transformed by technology and the absurdity of basing key elements of this culture on the ex- traction of data and behavioural monitoring of subjects. |
