AI Climate Governance (2025–2524)
Medium: 3D Animation (Installation)
Year:2025-2026
What happens when humanity hands over climate governance to artificial intelligence (AI)? AI Climate Governance (2025–2524) constructs a future parable in which non-human intelligence takes over the governance of global warming. The work begins with global climate and social data from 1950 to 2024, introducing four AI agents as governing subjects that independently make decisions about climate governance over the next five hundred years. Through this process, the system continuously projects changes in a speculative world, including temperature, CO₂ concentration, sea level, forest coverage, economic activity, and social stability. From these projections emerges a set of governance indicators distinct from human experiential scales, used to characterize the governance state of non-human intelligence. Extending the artist’s sustained engagement with posthuman narratives, the work explores how the world might be reconfigured when the subjects of understanding, interpretation, and governance shift from humans to non-human intelligence. It asks whether a future projected by AI has already begun to acquire the power to define the present—and even to rewrite the past.
Version 1.2.V1 | AI Climate Governance (2025–2524)
In version 1.2.V1, governance logic is translated into an environment that can be directly sensed, unfolding within realistic urban space and articulated through “water level” as the ongoing calibration of a non-human governance system in response to overall systemic deviation.
Version 1.1.V1 | AI Climate Governance: Retroactive Present (2025–2524)
In version 1.1.V1, each “present” rendered through visual languages such as light delay, color temperature drift, and structural convergence and dispersion is not a simulation of future climate conditions. Instead, it represents a state that is permitted to appear only after being continuously recalibrated according to the governance evaluation criteria of the following year—a present shaped retroactively by future projections. In other words, the “now” encountered by the viewer is itself derived from a projected future.
HAN YAJUAN+ 