Artificial Intelligence can be understood as a technology, a political movement, a variety of capitalism, and an experiment in simulating cultures. In this seminar, we will explore two main modes of AI, generation and prediction, as devices through which to understand how subjects engage with and are engaged by AI systems. Reading broadly across the fields of anthropology, science and technology studies, and design, we will investigate the prefigurations and entailments of intelligence and artificiality alongside generation and prediction as disciplinary formations. Questions we will particularly address include: does AI shift notions of sovereignty and of personhood? Does AI labor? How can we understand debates about intelligence outside the boundaries of testing and benchmarks and their attendant supremacist philosophies? What justifies AI energy use? And, how do people and environments live with and alongside AI infrastructures and imaginaries? We will also conduct our own experiments with AI systems to understand how AI systems emerge, reflect, and remake our worlds. Students will engage in close reading and writing projects around questions of generation and prediction thrown up by AI and will also engage in semester-long group research experiments designed to deepen ethnographic understandings of these systems.