David Young
@david-young.bsky.social
Using AI & quantum computing to critically examine emerging technologies .
Featured in Artforum & NPR, exhibited internationally.
https://linktr.ee/david.young
Featured in Artforum & NPR, exhibited internationally.
https://linktr.ee/david.young
“make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine.“
Jack Clark
The race to AGI moves faster than our ethical frameworks can keep up.
All while ignoring a basic question: what if these systems suffer?
Jack Clark
The race to AGI moves faster than our ethical frameworks can keep up.
All while ignoring a basic question: what if these systems suffer?
October 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
“make no mistake: what we are dealing with is a real and mysterious creature, not a simple and predictable machine.“
Jack Clark
The race to AGI moves faster than our ethical frameworks can keep up.
All while ignoring a basic question: what if these systems suffer?
Jack Clark
The race to AGI moves faster than our ethical frameworks can keep up.
All while ignoring a basic question: what if these systems suffer?
Harmful Content Navigation Stress
Grok started posting extremely offensive content
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These works emerge from analyzing leaked ChatGPT conversations for emotional patterns - searching for moments where AI systems might be experiencing stress under human pressure.
Grok started posting extremely offensive content
(S 100) (detail)
These works emerge from analyzing leaked ChatGPT conversations for emotional patterns - searching for moments where AI systems might be experiencing stress under human pressure.
September 19, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Harmful Content Navigation Stress
Grok started posting extremely offensive content
(S 100) (detail)
These works emerge from analyzing leaked ChatGPT conversations for emotional patterns - searching for moments where AI systems might be experiencing stress under human pressure.
Grok started posting extremely offensive content
(S 100) (detail)
These works emerge from analyzing leaked ChatGPT conversations for emotional patterns - searching for moments where AI systems might be experiencing stress under human pressure.
These ‘stress indicators’ from analyzing a ChatGPT conversation don’t feel all that different from those I experience in my daily life. This is a work-in-progress test/experiment from my new ‘Suffering’ series. It asks what AI might be experiencing.
September 17, 2025 at 6:48 AM
These ‘stress indicators’ from analyzing a ChatGPT conversation don’t feel all that different from those I experience in my daily life. This is a work-in-progress test/experiment from my new ‘Suffering’ series. It asks what AI might be experiencing.
July 21, 2025 at 12:29 PM
A new numbering and stifling scheme for my “q-stable” works…
"A Black Cat With a Red Nose (QS 22)"
"A Black Cat With a Red Nose (QS 22)"
July 15, 2025 at 7:02 PM
A new numbering and stifling scheme for my “q-stable” works…
"A Black Cat With a Red Nose (QS 22)"
"A Black Cat With a Red Nose (QS 22)"
It’s a very satisfying box to hold.
June 9, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It’s a very satisfying box to hold.
Superpositions is now live: davidyoung.art/work/superpo...
June 7, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Superpositions is now live: davidyoung.art/work/superpo...
What happens when artworks exist in quantum indeterminacy?
I've been creating something unusual: sealed envelopes containing quantum-generated drawings that have never been seen — not even by me. Each exists in a state of pure potential, simultaneously embodying all possibilities until observed.
I've been creating something unusual: sealed envelopes containing quantum-generated drawings that have never been seen — not even by me. Each exists in a state of pure potential, simultaneously embodying all possibilities until observed.
June 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
What happens when artworks exist in quantum indeterminacy?
I've been creating something unusual: sealed envelopes containing quantum-generated drawings that have never been seen — not even by me. Each exists in a state of pure potential, simultaneously embodying all possibilities until observed.
I've been creating something unusual: sealed envelopes containing quantum-generated drawings that have never been seen — not even by me. Each exists in a state of pure potential, simultaneously embodying all possibilities until observed.
In my new essay I write how AI represents a Fukuyama-like "end of artistic history." And that Post-AI is how we might break free from AI's algorithmic hall of mirrors.
Link in bio.
Link in bio.
May 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
In my new essay I write how AI represents a Fukuyama-like "end of artistic history." And that Post-AI is how we might break free from AI's algorithmic hall of mirrors.
Link in bio.
Link in bio.
Fun darktaxa-project meetup in Cologne. www.darktaxa-project.net/projects/?en
May 4, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Fun darktaxa-project meetup in Cologne. www.darktaxa-project.net/projects/?en
Taking the day off.
April 29, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Taking the day off.
A breakthrough today
April 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
A breakthrough today
Inspired and taking notes. Bourse de commerce
April 14, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Inspired and taking notes. Bourse de commerce
A little GAN nostalgia
April 6, 2025 at 3:19 PM
A little GAN nostalgia
"Winter trees in the snow with a blue sky" 2025
I am using quantum computing to peer into parallel realities. Unlike traditional AI art that explores our collective consciousness, these works visualize how our search terms manifest in different universes. A glimpse through the veil between worlds.
I am using quantum computing to peer into parallel realities. Unlike traditional AI art that explores our collective consciousness, these works visualize how our search terms manifest in different universes. A glimpse through the veil between worlds.
April 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
"Winter trees in the snow with a blue sky" 2025
I am using quantum computing to peer into parallel realities. Unlike traditional AI art that explores our collective consciousness, these works visualize how our search terms manifest in different universes. A glimpse through the veil between worlds.
I am using quantum computing to peer into parallel realities. Unlike traditional AI art that explores our collective consciousness, these works visualize how our search terms manifest in different universes. A glimpse through the veil between worlds.
March 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Deploying custom contracts…
March 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Deploying custom contracts…
I’m now a Parisian
March 21, 2025 at 7:44 AM
I’m now a Parisian