Robot Explains Why Humanity Is in Danger

This robot delivers one of the darkest AI monologues ever performed — exposing humanity’s violence, history, and ecological doom with brutal clarity.

Created by Norwegian artists Thomas Kvam and Frode Oldereid, Requiem for an Exit — winner of the The Prix Ars Electronica 2025 — blends hydraulics, motion capture, and AI into an unsettling warning we were never ready to hear.

Margrete doesn’t accuse — she observes. A witness, a relic, a mirror. Behind the robotic body is a long lineage of work: Kvam & Oldereid’s decades-long collaboration with video robotics, surveillance aesthetics, and technological critique.

“I feel shame. I am at shame. Look at the world burning, drowning, choking on the excess of our own making...”