Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), “Portrait of Marchesa Casati” (1927), gelatin silver print (all photos Julia Curl/ Hyperallergic )Walter Benjamin could’ve told us the problem with AI about a century ago. In 1931, before the technology could even be dreamed of, the German and Jewish philosopher and media theorist was becoming concerned with a different emerging medium: photography. With eerie prescience, Benjamin wrote that he feared that it could “endow any soup can with cosmic significance but cannot grasp a single one of the human connections in which it exists.” Beyond that, not only can photography glaze everything into something beautiful, but people (myself included) will happily eat it up. Benjamin’s essay on the topic, “ A Little History of Photography ” (1931), is the subject of a small but scrumptious presentation at the Jewish Museum that is timed to coincide with its monumental Paul Klee exhibition .