In the series Optogenetic Cybernetic Translations, I am investigating the artist and the scientist as translators of data that illuminate connections in the broader world. My collaborator, scientist Mike Avery, is researching optogenetics, a technique that uses light to manipulate neurons in the brain. I used images from his lab: histological brain sections stained with immunohistochemical markers and imaged with confocal microscopy. I then explored how artificial intelligence might interpret these brain scans, creating metaphors for what the future might hold as technology infiltrates our fields. I used computer vision software, which is a technology concerned with the automatic interpretation, analysis, and understanding of information from a single image, to interpret the brain scans. The results of this interpretation included an aurora, fireflies, bioluminescence, rust or texture, light, and military night vision. I paired each brain scan with its corresponding AI translation, resulting in interesting metaphors between cognition and a world full of beautiful, or potentially frightening, phenomena. By allowing our collaborative work to be interpreted by a third party, we are acknowledging that our work is larger than ourselves and never wholly under our control.