When Hiromi Ozaki created six AI-generated “tech bros” to debate each other about the future of humanity, she had no idea how quickly, and how closely, reality would imitate art.

“Like, it’s not really about votes anymore, it’s about who’s controlling the algorithms,” argues one of the avatars, a square-jawed, blond man.

“It really makes you wonder,” posits another of the fictional personas, whose personalities were trained on the philosophies and ideas of billionaires like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel. “Where does free will even factor in?”

The characters — who appear on large screen panels in a video installation — are based on Ozaki’s face and voice, but were reimagined as White men. They were designed to embody the “stereotypical tech bro figure,” said the Japanese-British artist, bett

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