Invisible Images: Your Pictures Are Looking at You

What are the implications of computer vision in relation to machine learning and 'artificial intelligence'? New York-based artist and writer Trevor Paglen argues that autonomous image-interpretation systems, from algorithms that analyse photos on Facebook to licence-plate readers used by police, constitute a new kind of visuality which is paradoxically largely invisible to human eyes. What is more, this new 'invisible visuality' should be understood as a means of centralising power in the hands of the state and corporate actors who are able to deploy machine-vision systems at scale.