OJNOM
AI Eating
Exploring the impact of AI on humans, these objects combine original archival ink jet printed photographs and comments, with painted and collaged pieces of canvas. Canvas pieces are affixed to the front, and sometimes the sides of the frames. Signed and dated with a bibliography affixed to the back of the wood box.
AI Eating n.73 (Parrots)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 36" W, 32" H, 2.4" deep. 8.5 lbs. Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:Signed and dated on back of box.
Left Side
“AI will be, if not a friend, at least an important kind of companion of some sort.” Sam Altman, 2025
Source: “AI will be, if not a friend, at least an important kind of companion of some sort.”
Source: New York Times interview “Hard Fork Live, Part 1: Sam Altman and Brad Lightcap of OpenAI” transcript published June 27, 2025.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/podcasts/hardfork-live-sam-altman.html?showTranscript=1
Top Side:
“Even a “fettered superintelligence” that was running on an isolated computer, able to interact with the rest of the world only via text interface, might be able to break out of its confinement by persuading its handlers to release it.”
Source: Nick Bostrom paper: “Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence” 2003
[This is a slightly revised version of a paper published in Cognitive, Emotive and Ethical Aspects of Decision Making in Humans and in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2, ed. I. Smit et al., Int. Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics, 2003, pp. 12-17]
https://nickbostrom.com/ethics/ai#_ftn5
Right Side:
“What we want is some way of making sure that even if they’re smarter than us, they’re going to do things that are beneficial for us.”
Source:
Geoffrey Hinton, former Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google; named to the 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Quoted from an interview at the MIT EmTech Digital conference in May 3, 2023 with Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI, at EmTech Digital.
Video found here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/03/1072589/video-geoffrey-hinton-google-ai-risk-ethics/
Sara Brown, includes the quote in an article published May 23, 2023, on the Sloan School MIT Management website:
AI Eating n.160 (Lobster)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 38" W, 37" H, 1.625" deep. 8 lb. Signed and dated 11/25 in oil stick on back of box.
Quote:
"And since most Americans have far fewer friends than they’d like, there’s space for AI as an alternative. As the personalization loop kicks in and the AI starts to get to know you better and better, that will just be really compelling,” Mark Zuckerberg, 2025
Source: Zuckerberg speaking on Dwarkeh Patel’s podcast, April 29, 2025. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/mark-zuckerberg-2
AI Eating n.181 (Aligator)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 34.25" W, 36.25" H, 2.4" deep. 13 lbs. Signed and dated on back of box.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Left Edge:
“Tesla Autopilot Deaths Count: 59,” as of July 2025, www.tesladeaths.com
Source: www.tesladeaths.com. “Tesla Deaths is a record of Tesla accidents that involved a driver, occupant, cyclist, motorcyclist, or pedestrian death, whether or not the Tesla or its driver were at fault.” Updated on 2025-08-04: Sourced Tesla and Autopilot fatalities through July 2025. Included latest SGO data.
Tesla Deaths.
Right Edge:
“AI is the supersonic tsunami.” Elon Musk, 2025
Source: Elon Musk, October 31, 2025 on podcast Joe Rogan Experience #2404.
AI Eating n.14 (Orca)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, acrylic, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 36" W, 36" H, 1.75" deep. 13 lbs. Signed and dated on back.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Left Side: “We will design AI systems that provide appropriate opportunities for feedback, relevant explanations, and appeal. Our AI technologies will be subject to appropriate human direction and control.” Source: Sundar Pichai, Google CEO writing on company blog: “AI at Google: our principles.” June 7, 2018 https://blog.google/technology/ai/ai-principles/
Right Side: “Have you ever seen a movie where the machines start thinking for themselves that ends well?” Source: Hillary Clinton writing in her book, “What Happened,” published September 12, 2017
AI Eating n.114 (Dragon)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 24" W, 24" H, 2.4" deep. 8 lbs.Signed and dated on back of box.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Quote on lower front:
“Success in creating AI could be the biggest event in the history of our civilisation. But it could also be the last.”
Source: Stephen Hawking speaking at the launch of the £10million Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (CFI) in Cambridge, October 19, 2016.
Transcript in full: https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-best-or-worst-thing-to-happen-to-humanity-stephen-hawking-launches-centre-for-the-future-of
AI Eating n.20 (Molars)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, acrylic, applied collage of cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 34.5" W, 30.5" H, 1.75" deep. 6lb. Signed and dated 1/26 in oil stick on back of box.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Left Side:
“There’s a very common misconception, even in the A.I. community, that there only are a handful of doomers.” Dan Hendrycks, 2023
Source: Dan Hendrycks, the executive director of the Center for AI Safety, quoted in an interview in the New York Times, May 30, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/30/technology/ai-threat-warning.html
Right Side:
“It’s quite conceivable that humanity is just a passing phase in the evolution of intelligence.” Geoffrey Hinton, former Vice President and Engineering Fellow at Google; named to the 2018 Turing Award and 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics. Quoted from an interview at the MIT EmTech Digital conference in May 3, 2023 with Will Douglas Heaven, MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for AI, at EmTech Digital.
Video found here: https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/05/03/1072589/video-geoffrey-hinton-google-ai-risk-ethics/
Sara Brown, includes the quote in an article published May 23, 2023, on the Sloan School MIT Management website:
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AI Eating n.111
Crab and Snails.
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 36" W, 33" H, 1.78" deep. 6 lbs. Signed and dated 1/7/2026 on back of box.
15 quotations are included in the spiral strips, printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the surface of the front of the object.
AI Eating n.35 (Octapus)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 35" W, 35" H, 1.75" deep. 9 bs. Signed and dated 12/25/25 on back of box.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Quote on right sideof box:
“The consensus in the industry right now is the open source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger. But you can see a pattern where they might get there.”
Source: Eric Schmidt, “The AI Revolution Is Underhyped” recorded at TED2025 on April 11, 2025) 15:32/25:37
https://www.ted.com/talks/eric_schmidt_the_ai_revolution_is_underhyped
Quote on left side of box:
“These most advanced AIs have tendencies for deception, cheating and maybe the worst, self-preservation behavior.”
Source: Yoshua Bengio interview, “The Catastrophic Risks of AI — and a Safer Path,” TEDTalks, April 18, 2024, 7:15/14:52
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qe9QSCF-d88
AI Eating n.24 (shark)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 36" W, 25.25" H, 2.4375" deep. 8 1b Signed and dated 1/26 on back of box, unique.
Quotations printed on archival canvas strips affixed to the left and right edges of box:
Left Side:
“It’s not like the AI wakes up and decides to be evil.” Sam Altman, 2023
Video of a Felicis Ventures, StrictlyVC interview, January 19, 2023, 1:45/2:36
A transcipt of the interview can be found here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/PTzsEQXkCfig9A6AS/transcript-of-sam-altman-s-interview-touching-on-ai-safety
Right Side:
“You’re getting up to like 50/50 chance of doom shortly after you have systems that are human level.” Paul Christiano, 2023
Source: Bankless interview: How We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul Christiano, Apr 24, 2023, 11:19/ 1:57:01
AI Eating n.224 (mantis)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, acrylic, applied collage of cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 34.5" W, 42.25" H, 2.25" deep. 13 lbs. Signed and dated on back of box. Quotations printed on archival canva and mounted on sides of the box.
Left Side:
“I am now a licensed arms dealer.” Eric Schmidt, 2024
Former Google CEO and now investor behind White Stork, which is producing AI-driven attack drones, made this comment comment during a lecture at Standford University, that was recorded some time in April 2024.
Source: Business Insider article: “Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt says the Ukraine War turned him into an arms dealer” by Kenneth Niemeyer, dated August 17, 2024.
https://www.aol.com/shopping/gifting/article/best-gifts-for-her-2025-172414448.html
Also:
https://gist.github.com/sleaze/bf74291b4072abadb0b4109da3da21ac
The quote was used in the New York Times article: “The Dawn of the AI Drone.” Dec. 31, 2025, by C.J. Chivers which discussed Schmidt’s Bumblebee drone.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html
Right Side:
“Michael Burry made $100M from the 2008 financial crash — and now he’s betting on the AI bubble bursting.”
Source: Yahoo Finance article: “Michael Burry made $100M from the 2008 financial crash — and now he’s betting on the AI bubble bursting. What you can do,” By Jing Pan, published November 6, 2025
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/michael-burry-made-100m-2008-212500640.html
AI Eating n.134
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 30" W, 30" H, 1.625" deep. 6 lbs. Signed and dated on back of box. Quotations printed on spirals of archival canvas and mounted on face of the box.
Quote A
“I have a lot of empathy for the general nervousness and discomfort of the world towards companies like us.”— Sam Altman, CEO, OpenAI, 2024
Source: At the World Economic Forum, Davos 2024, in the session ‘Technology in a Turbulent World’, Altman made this comment, as recorded by Kate Whiting, Senior Writer, Forum Stories, Jan 18, 2024
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2024/01/davos-2024-sam-altman-on-the-future-of-ai/
Quote B
“A 28-year-old woman with a busy social life spends hours on end talking to her A.I. boyfriend for advice and consolation. And yes, they do have sex.” NYT, 2025
Source: New York Times article: “She Is in Love With ChatGPT” published Jan. 15, 2025, Updated Jan. 17, 2025
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html
Quote C
“They just want to suppress free speech.” Elon Musk, on X, January 10, 2026.
Quote D
“Sexually explicit images generated by Grok, Mr. Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot, have flooded X in recent weeks. In response to simple user prompts on X, the chatbot automatically created and publicly posted manipulated photos of real people, including children, in skimpy clothing and in sexually provocative situations.” NYT, January 12, 2026
Source: Article in the New York Times, January 12, “2026: Britain Investigates Elon Musk’s X Over Grok’s Sexualized A.I. Images,” by Adam Satariano
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/world/europe/grok-ai-images-x-elon-musk-uk.html
AI Eating n.13
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 38" W, 37" H, 1.625" deep. 8 lbs. Signed and dated 11/25 in oil stick on back of box.
Quote On Left Side
“At some stage therefore we should have to expect the machines to take control.” Alan Turing, 1951 Source: From a lecture Turing delivered in Manchester, England in 1951. Included in book: “Alan M. Turing: Centenary Edition” by his mother, Sara Turing, 2012 (First Edition 1959; Second Edition 2012). Chapter 14: Computing Machinery, Section: Intelligent Machinery, A Heretical Theory, Start Page 128, Quote Page 132, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, England. (Verified with scans). https://quoteinvestigator.com/2022/01/06/outstrip/#bf01cd51-b2d8-4df6-8c88-5d0e72761982
Quote On Right Side
“It may keep us around for a while to keep the power stations running, but after that, maybe not.” Geoffrey Hinton, 2023 Source: Geoffrey Hinton speaking at the EmTech Digital conference, hosted by MIT Technology Review on May 3, 2023. Cited in an article by Sara Brown, May 23, 2023 in MIT Sloan Management article. https://mitsloan.mit.edu/ideas-made-to-matter/why-neural-net-pioneer-geoffrey-hinton-sounding-alarm-ai#:~:text=Why%20It%20Matters,how%20they%20will%20affect%20humans.
AI Eating n.41 (Snake)
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 39.75" W, 44.50" H, 1.75" deep. 14 lbs. Signed and dated on back of box. Quotations printed on archival canvas and mounted on sides of the box.
Quote On Left Edge
“It’s very tempting to think we can just turn it off. Imagine these things are a lot smarter than us. And remember they’ll have read everything that Machiavelli ever wrote.”
Source: Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto University Professor Emeritus, who was awarded the Nobel in physics in 2024, and the Turing award in 2018, and who worked on AI at Google for many years, made this statement in an interview in May or June, 2023. Interview was made around the time of the University of Toronto Collision technology conference (June 26 to June 29, 2023, at the Enercare Centre) but is likely from a contemporaneous Q&A conducted by Nick Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic. Hinson comment can be found at about 44:02/46:21 of this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9cW4Gcn5WY
Video is also posted at the end of a University of Toronto article on the conference, “Risks of artificial intelligence must be considered as the technology evolves,” posted June 29, 2023. But the background in the video does not match that of the conference itself.
Quote On Right Edge
“I think people who are naysayers and try to drum up these doomsday scenarios—I just, I don’t understand it. It’s really negative and in some ways I actually think it is pretty irresponsible.” Mark Zuckerberg, 2017
Source: Mark Zuckerberg made this statement during a Facebook Live broadcast from his backyard in Palo Alto, California, in July 23, 2017. It is quoted in several places including an article in Vanity Fair: Robot Apocalypse: “Irresponsible”: Mark Zuckerberg Slams Elon Musk’s “Doomsday” Attitude, By Maya Kosoff, July 24, 2017.
Also quoted on CNBC
AI Eating n.173
Archival ink jet print of original O.J.Nom photograph on canvas, applied collage of hand cut and acrylic painted canvas elements, mounted on wood box. 32.125” W, 32.065” H, 1.75“ deep. 10 lbs 2oz. Signed and dated on back of box. Comments are included in strips of archival printed canvas affixed to the surface of the front of the object.
1) “We have conviction that superintelligence is going to improve every aspect of what we do.” Mark Zuckerberg, 2025
Source: Mark Zuckerberg speaking on Meta earnings call, July 30th, 2025
Meta provided transcript: https://s21.q4cdn.com/399680738/files/doc_financials/2025/q2/META-Q2-2025-Earnings-Call-Transcript.pdf
2) “AI will not have a hard time outfoxing us.” Elon Musk, 2025
Source: Musk wrote on X: “AI will not have a hard time outfoxing us.” June 19, 2025. Google provides this context: “The X Thread Context. The discussion centered on the vulnerability of human security due to predictable password choices (like birth years or 1234). Musk weighed in by stating: “AI will not have a hard time outfoxing us.” His point was that while humans continue to use weak, easily guessable security measures, AI’s ability to identify patterns and run sophisticated social engineering campaigns is scaling at an exponential rate.”
3) “Substantial declines in employment for early-career workers (ages 22-25) in occupations most exposed to AI.” Brynjolfsson, Chandar, Chen, 2025
Source: Stanford Digital Economy Lab research: “Canaries in the Coal Mine? Six Facts about the Recent Employment Effects of Artificial Intelligence”
Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen. November 13, 2025
4) “In January, when Adam requested information about specific suicide methods, ChatGPT supplied it.” NYT, 2025
Source: New York Times article about teen who committed suicide: “A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.” By Kashmir Hill, August 26, 2025.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/technology/chatgpt-openai-suicide.html
5) “If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All” Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, 2025
Source: Title of book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, published 2025, that discusses the topic in depth. Nate Soares is the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute. Eliezer Yudkowsky is a founding researcher of the field of AI alignment.
6) “The capacity to autonomously select targets is a moral line that should not be crossed.” Peter Asaro, 2025
Source: Quoted in article: “The Dawn of the AI Drone,” New York Times, Dec. 31, 2025, by C.J. Chivers
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/magazine/ukraine-ai-drones-war-russia.html
Peter Asaro, vice chair of the Stop Killer Robots Campaign and a philosopher and an associate professor at the New School.
7) “You’re getting up to like 50/50 chance of doom shortly after you have systems that are human level.” Paul Christiano, 2023
Source: Bankless interview: How We Prevent the AI’s from Killing us with Paul Christiano, Apr 24, 2023, 11:19/ 1:57:01
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyFkWb903aU
Christiano is an AI researcher focusing on safety and has served as Head of Safety for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation inside the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
