Artificial Intelligence - A Way to Feel?

Abstract

Artificial intelligence is one of the most widespread and discussed mechanisms of the current post-globalization situation. AI has impacted medicine, sports, education, and more. With the proposal to discuss what it means to feel in the era of digital experiences managed through AI, this chapter intends to briefly analyze three practices of feeling that find in artificial intelligence a mechanism that generates “mirror experiences.” Firstly, the chapter reviews different approaches to the connection between AI and emotions, and secondly, what we will call experiences of sexualization will be examined through an exploratory observation of The Rrrealist on Instagram and Twitter. This experience implies a set of emotional ecologies that make up a geometry of enjoyment, pleasure, and jouissance in terms of a sociology of the virtual/mobile/digital world with important consequences for the structuring of society and its politics of sensibilities.