GÜNSELI YALCINKAYA is a writer, researcher, and internet folklorist based in London. She is External Research Affiliate at Moth, exploring the creative application of quantum technologies within culture.
The artist, filmmaker, and author of Medium Hot: Images in the Age of Heat grapples with magical thinking, implication in military-industrial AI, and machine learning’s many roads not taken.
On AI’s psychedelic edge, science is spiraling back towards its mystical origins, driven by a counterculture that’s not after free love so much as fatter profits.