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President Donald Trump takes questions from members of the media aboard Air Force One on December 9. (

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This image explores the visual culture of generative artificial intelligence landscapes, positioning it as a "new frontier" that echoes the 1850s to 1870s Manifest Destiny paintings (often associated with the Hudson River School). The base image, titled “Across the Continent: Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way" by Frances Flora Bond Palmer (1868) is one of many propagandistic artworks that intended to lure settlers westward while “conveniently” concealing the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous populations. Through collage, this image reappropriates the idea of ‘the next frontier’ as AI-frontier models to draw attention to the not-so-new forms of colonization within the digital realm.

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US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday in Washington, DC. The executive order seeks to curbs states' ability to regulate artificial intelligence, something for which the tech industry has been lobbying. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

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NAIROBI, KENYA - NOVEMBER 20: Activists hold a candlelight vigil to commemorate those who lost their lives in post-election violence in Tanzania. Participants carried flags and banners, sang solidarity songs, and lit candles. The United Nations Human Rights Office had reported that hundreds of people were killed in the protests that erupted after last month's elections, in which President Samia Suluhu was declared the winner. (Photo by Lucas Mukasa/Anadolu via Getty Images)

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US President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order as (L-R) Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and White House artificial intelligence (AI) and crypto czar David Sacks look on in the Oval Office of the White House on December 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)


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Hanna Barakat & Archival Images of AI + AIxDESIGN / Better Images of AI

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