​Michael Christopher Brown is an American artist known for his documentation of the 2011 Libyan Civil War and the resulting monograph, Libyan Sugar.

​Publications have long used reportage illustrations (RI) to illuminate stories in fresh ways. Though a RI may not reflect reality, it may feel true. AIRI (AI generated RI) may go a step further, as an image created from hundreds of millions of photographs may feel not only true, but real.

​A.I may reflect a novel way to translate narratives into useful imagery connecting people with important stories of our time, it may also blur what is real, what is true, what is reportage, what can be trusted and believed, and what can not.