Inner Demons #22
Cr(A)wE. – AlgorithmicEthics –
5”cdr/download – 2022 – [IND119F]
https://innerdemonsrecords.bandcamp.com/album/algorithmicethics-ind119f
https://www.facebook.com/craweband
https://www.stopkillerrobots.org
1. IntelligenceExplosion
2. смерть
Death 死亡
3. AlgorithmicEthics.
4. WhoeverIsAWolfWillActLikeAWolf.
5. Kargu-2.
6. CrabsOnTheIsland.
7. AnInherentlySubjectiveDetermination
-ThatWillBeResolvedOnACaseByCaseBasis.
8. CapitalismInvestsInDeathNotLife.
9. ReturnToTheDesert.
10. DroneSwarm.
11. TheRealRiskIsNotMaliceButCompetence.
AlgorithmicEthics is about the
greatest danger our planet faces of all, Lethal Autonomous Weapons (LAW’s).
In March 2020 Turkish built
STM Kargu-2 quadcopter drones attacked anti-government rebels in Libya fully
autonomously - without human operator command.
This terrifying historic event
made a few tiny subheadings in the mainstream media following an obscure UN
Security Council report produced a year later, but widely went unnoticed. It
was the worlds first published account of a weapon attacking human beings with
no human operator control or command.
America, China, Russia, the UK
and nearly every major nation and arms developer have massive LAW development
programmes, despite all the worlds leading thinkers and human rights advocacy
organisations agreeing LAW’s pose the single biggest risk to humanity and
should be banned outright. The pentagon spent a published $4.6 billion on AI
programmes in 2020 alone with far more funding hidden behind sub contracts.
Weapons that can be programmed
to attack through facial recognition technology with no human input acting on
racial profile, economic status, political affiliations, age or simply at
random is not some cheesy dystopian futuristic sci-fi nightmare, but a reality
that is already here and fully developed.
Support anti arms trade
advocacy groups where you can and hold the developers of these weapons to
account, before their lust for money destroys us all…
Quote from CrAwe
Facebook page.
This was meant to be a day
when I caught up on my Inner Demons records reviewing, it was going to be special
as I am to start reviewing their recent 5”cdr releases. Yes! You read me right
the label has done not 1 but 3 - 5” cdrs in the last batch. But I feel as if I
am in either of the Dune films and the Harkonnens are coming to get me. Cr(A)wE
blast me with epic, timeless, sci-fi music that is at once dramatic and
emotional. It allows just the right amount of emotion into IntelligenceExplosion
to hit just the right note on this percussion/synth mini opera. The levels of intensity
and emotion are balanced perfectly throughout the whole album. There are tracks
such as AnInherentlySubjectiveDeterminationThatWillBeResolvedOnACaseByCaseBasis
that focus on drones rather than the epic build ups, this shows good contrast
in the work.
As mentioned in the quote
above this album deals with the threat to humanity from AI generated weapons
and how people’s reckless desire to be rich fuels this trade. It adds a who new
level of sinister to the work. The work soundtracks a very real, fully
developed threat. The back story and style that the music is played it makes it
a very real Sci Fi epic/apocalyptic epic piece of work.
Adam Colman makes all of this
with a bow played specially designed, fretless 3 string guitar designed by
Colman and Dan Gathercole from Gallo guitars. This guitar is known as the CrAwEcaster.
Cr(A)we has been actively releasing since 2019. I am sure regular guitar and
other instruments are used too judging by photos of the project.
Reading about Cr(A)wE and
hearing AlgorithmicEthics shows a brilliant album by a very serious project.
Army of One 2023.
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