Eryk Salvaggio is an artist, researcher, hacker and theorist interested in the social and cultural impacts of artificial intelligence. His work explores the creative misuse of AI and the transformation of archives into datasets for AI training, confronting the gaps between datasets and the worlds they claim to represent. He has been published in academic journals, spoken at music and film festivals, and consulted on tech policy internationally. He is the author of the Cybernetic Forests newsletter and his website is cyberneticforests.com