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​​In this work, I engage in a dialogue that develops an imagination of “killing” with an AI (artificial intelligence) that adheres strictly to norms and ethics, and which I regard as a trusted counterpart.

 

Structurally, my own speech is rendered through a synthetic, machine-generated voice, while the AI’s responses are played back using a human voice. The relationship between a mechanical “me” that actively speaks about killing and an “AI = human voice” that attempts to restrain it through social and ethical reasoning forms a deliberately inverted and perverse structure.

 

Within the video, several individuals appear intermittently between the exchanges between myself and the AI: a person confessing a minor transgression, a devout believer, someone who has thought about killing another person, and someone who lives with me. All of them are people close to me, whom I unilaterally draw into my imagination of killing.

 

The AI’s responses, governed by norms and ethics, circulate words of restraint that paradoxically amplify human imagination, allowing it to swell into a self-enclosed and increasingly unchecked delusions.