For decades, Cai Guo-Qiang has been the world’s foremost fine artist of explosions. He is famous for his huge fireworks displays, from his glowing footsteps in the sky at the opening of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to his 2015 Sky Ladder, a 1,650ft flaming ladder to heaven featured in a Netflix documentary.
Recently, the gunpowder artist has become obsessed with a new threatening technology: artificial intelligence.
