Gunpowder meets AI: Cai Guo-Qiang lights up LA skies
Gunpowder artist Cai Guo-Qiang just debuted a massive daytime fireworks show in Los Angeles designed in collaboration with 'AI Cai,' a custom multimodal model trained on his archives and favorite philosophers. The performance deployed 2,300 explosive-carrying drones and 10,000 fireworks across the stadium stands to visually manifest AI-generated answers about humanity's future. Why it matters: Cai sees gunpowder and AI as identical twins of creative unpredictability—both dangerous, hard to control, and capable of sublime awe.