The curatorial team of the 19th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale has responded to criticism of their use of AI-generated summaries in the exhibition "Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective." They clarify that the 35-word AI summaries were an intentional experiment, left unedited except for gross factual errors, to juxtapose human intelligence (the 250-word project descriptions) with artificial intelligence. The team acknowledges the reflections and critiques published in Artnet and other outlets, viewing them as validating the experiment's purpose.
This matters because the Biennale team is using the exhibition as a real-time testbed for AI literacy in curatorial practice, deliberately exposing the technology's benefits, shortcomings, and biases. By embedding this experiment in one of the world's most prestigious architecture events, they aim to normalize both accessibility in contemporary architecture exhibitions and critical engagement with AI before the technology becomes even more pervasive and harder to distinguish from human output by the next Biennale.