Embodying the Algorithm is a series of performances composed by an artificial intelligence and performed by a group of human artists during COVID-19 quarantine conditions. In these performances, the artists who come from a variety of performance art practices and locations around the world develop performances written by GPT-3: the largest language model in existence. OpenAI’s GPT-3 uses machine learning to produce texts which are difficult to distinguish from those by humans. The language model was trained on the largest dataset of any to-date including articles, books, blog entries, and texts sourced from the internet. As a result, however, GPT-3’s text sometimes reflects the statements and ideas of the internet and its human authors including biases, prejudices, and sometimes hateful or toxic output. This has resulted in some controversy around GPT-3 adding to existing concerns about artificial intelligence’s increasing presence in our lives. This series of performances touches upon these issues of autonomy and individuality as well as the relationship between technology and the body, authorship and identity, and AI creativity vs. reproduction ultimately asking: what makes performance art performance art? What works of performance art might an artificial intelligence generate? And what can those performances tell us about ourselves and the words we immortalize online?