Artists Unveil 5-Foot Anti-OpenAI Sculpture at San Francisco Event
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Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 29
Artists Unveil 5-Foot Anti-OpenAI Sculpture at San Francisco Event
3 articles · Updated · Ars Technica · Sep 29
Summary
Two Bay Area artists placed “What Iceberg?”—a 5-foot-tall installation—at the public entrance to an OpenAI developer event in San Francisco on Tuesday.
The table-sized sculpture depicts OpenAI leaders and investors fleeing a sinking ship with vast wealth while others are left to bear AI’s costs, framing the protest around inequality and harm.
Kevin, a co-creator from Berkeley-based Odd Friend Studio, said the team spent the last five days building it from papier mâché, cardboard, paint and a repurposed table.
He said the Titanic metaphor was less about the iceberg than about who gets a contingency plan, arguing wealthy AI insiders can escape while workers and the public face the consequences.