AMNC25 Day 2: Thijs Biersteker

Can we co-create - and communicate - with AI? At the Annual Meeting of the New Champions 2025, a 3D-printed mushroom sculpture is more than eye-catching. It's a symbol of how nature collaborates, according to sculptor Thijs Biersteker, and how we might learn to do the same with artificial intelligence. The installation provokes us to think about the connections between underground networks of fungi and the vast, intelligent webs that AI is forming. What might mycology tell us about the future of technology?