Mikael Brunila Read Bio Collapse
Mikael Brunila is a Montreal-based postdoctoral researcher who recently defended his PhD thesis on information theory. His academic research has been published in top outlets for computational linguistics (EMNLP, NAACL) and geography (JAPA, GIScience, Transactions in GIS). In addition to his academic work, Brunila is working on open-source encrypted mapping services. In the 2000s, Brunila was involved in organizing solidarity actions against file-sharing lawsuits through the Helsinki squatters’ movement.
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If centralized AI makes the world a smaller place, tunneling AI will make it larger and more fragmented. In terms of a project for an opacity from below, tunnels are the structures that afford us the condition of opacity. They have limited access points but often lead to a sprawling and decentralized network. To maintain, build, expand, and protect tunnels, one can operate on many planes—from building and adapting new tools that destitute the centralized AI platforms, to nudging national and philanthropic investment programs towards directing funds into the techniques of “private” and decentralized AI.