Author: Kris Krüg
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sleep little machine
i gave my data center protest sign a lullaby.
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Who’s the thirsty little democracy?
I went to Vancouver’s AI protest. Cedar brought the land. Stephanie brought the public-power questions. Both hands full. Now show me the deal.
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World Tourism Day at Capilano: The Glowing Jellyfish Problem
At Capilano University’s World Tourism Day panel, a kayak guide asked what to do when AI itineraries promise glowing jellyfish that aren’t there. My answer: keep the human judgment, and build from real trips.
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AI Day at Robson Square: No Slogan Gets Us Out of Doing the Governance
Fifteen minutes at AI Day 2.0 in Robson Square, one working mic, one bar of wifi. Both hands full, what really came out of ALL IN Montreal, and the chalk line that says no slogan gets us out of doing the governance.
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ALL IN Montreal, Final Day: A Heartbeat Under My Boots
On the last morning of ALL IN Montreal, I crossed Moment Factory, Mila and the SAT, following AI out of the conference and into games, archives, GPUs, haptic floors and a 3D map of the data centres hiding downtown. Through the viewfinder By Friday morning I was running on coffee, borrowed sleep and the nutritional…
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ALL IN Montreal, Day Two: Uncle Evan and the Extremely Suspicious Backpack
Day two at ALL IN Montreal: a bomb squad for my backpack, five minutes with Justine Gauthier, two minutes with Minister Evan Solomon, and BC + AI’s transparency work in front of the people who need to see it.
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Headed East for ALL IN Montréal
Canada started making its case before I even boarded: a voice model waiting on its benchmark, a room learning to play, and a plane full of strange machinery headed for Montréal.
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AI Lands Inside Every Profession
Business in Vancouver got the thesis right: AI lands inside every profession. Here is the connective infrastructure B.C. still has to build and what BC + AI is already doing.
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I AM NOMAD: Nine Cuts, One Melting Whale, and a Very Patient AI Editor
How Kris Krüg and Suzy Easton turned the AI Film Club’s one-word Retro challenge into a 53.5-second 4K film, a psychedelic WebGL airport, and a real holographic souvenir.
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Watch Who’s Smiling
The AI Doc is beautifully made and worth your two hours. It’s also a comfort machine, and the cheeriest voices in it are the people holding the biggest positions in the thing they’re cheering for. Follow the money and the mood follows it.
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Artists Learn. Machines Extract.
Morgane Oger asked the good version of the copyright and AI question: if artists learn from artists, what makes machine training different? The answer lives in consent, scale, secrecy, and substitution.
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The AI Mindset: Adapting to the New Creative Paradigm
A field note on the AI mindset: thinking with machines without surrendering taste, agency, or the human weirdness that makes the work worth doing.
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Make Culture, Not Content
Generative engines now spill out adequate everything. Your value is shifting from production to selection, orchestration, and meaning-making — a field manual.
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Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era
Generation has been commoditized. Selection hasn’t. The DJs figured this out in the ’80s — taste is the moat.
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Punk Rock AI
Most AI conversations force a binary. Boosters say embrace it. Doomers say resist it. Both feel lazy. I hold the critique in one hand. I hold the capability in the other. That is the only honest place to stand right now.
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Applied Ethical AI: Responsible AI Professional Certification (RAP)
4 weeks. Built with Martin Lopatka and Sarah Downey. First cohort starts May 22. Wrote up the whole story… the gap, the collaborators, what’s actually in it, and the honest notes about the pilot.
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Spa at the End of Time
Kate Armstrong turned the planetarium into a séance. Flux LoRA trained on her hot tub paintings. Not AI wallpaper… an oracle of leisure, plumbing, and the post-body future.
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Name the Bias
Stop calling it “AI bias.” It’s misogyny when image generators strip authority from women. It’s racism when facial recognition fails Black women at 40x the rate it fails white men. It’s sexism when resume algorithms favor men. Name what you’re seeing. Make discrimination visible.
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Both Hands Full
This piece is for creatives who feel two things at once: anger about the non-consensual training mess, and curiosity about what these tools can do inside a real practice. I’m not selling “embrace” or “resist.” I’m arguing for both hands full: left hand holds critique (consent, labor, dependency), right hand holds agency (workflows that actually…