What are the costs of placing our identities in the hands of those in power?
What happens when our ideas of identity become colonized—reshaped to erase the very forces that make most people who they are, instead of asking the fundamental questions about social equality?

We live in a world that treats equality as a slogan rather than a belief; a world that turns social circumstances into entertainment rather than a mirror to reflect on our not-so-inclusive past, and on a future that is far from collective.
And how are these very inequalities reflected back to us through large language models?

In his book Civilized to Death, Christopher Ryan points out an inverse relationship between the difference in social classes and social empathy—meaning that as people become richer and more powerful, they tend to become less empathetic.

Does that mean that we can stop looking at certain people as, well, people? The same way we look at animals in zoos? Can visual identity become a metric? Can these vocabularies be used as a form of entertainment? As tools of social occupation? Do identities have more importance than just being an “experience” for those who are sick of abundance in their lives?

How can machine bias inform us about our own? How can we detect and control narratives branded as inclusive when they are actually about occupational exclusivity within the vast and ever evolving latent space?

"Utopia" is a series that is part of a bigger body of work that I don’t feel the need to brand or sell. The more I contemplate it, the more I’m reminded of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik’s novel with the same name. And it keeps coming back to me that we live in a world of experience—and you would want to pray to be on the right side of that.