Exhibition Transition In Progress!

Justice Chamber is intended to be a physical exhibit that can be set up in any kind of college, library, or museum space.  We are currently transitioning our high-fidelity prototype from code only to an interface that can be spoken to and controlled with buttons.

Further Interface Development

There are several aspects of our interface which could use further development, though they are out of scope for this semester's timeline:

• Strengthening the prompting for each AI bot so it represents its justice model more precisely and less hesitantly (i.e. without waiting for the user to specify a scenario or other details)

• Adding more justice model representations (such as equality and equity)

• Adding capacity to store custom justice models

• Putting more thought into the prompting and questions needed to create a custom justice model.

• Refining out physical setup if Justice Chamber successfully transitions from an exhibit at Olin to another location.

Finding a Home for Justice Chamber

While we are currently planning to house Justice Chamber in the Olin library, we’d love to feature our exhibit at a museum. Such possibilities include:

• The MIT Museum which currently has an exhibition about how AI reflects more about human values and thinking than it reveals about the inner workings of these complex computational creations. Our provocative exhibit that hints at the usefulness of AI in discussing justice theory would fit right in.

• The Boston Museum of Science has an exhibition dedicated to AI that our project would fit well into for reasons similar to the previous entry. Our exhibit also has an education piece that fits well into the needs met by exhibits in this museum.

• WNDR is a Boston museum all about strange and mystical interaction with technology that is both grounded in realism whose mysterious yet impressive exhibits tend to stick with any guests. Our innovative exhibit allows visitors to explore any curiosities they may have about justice while exploring the justice models that visitors before them have created. This bizarre meta-situation where visitors can learn of their predecessors’ perspectives through an interface run by AI is especially appropriate for WNDR.

All of these exhibits are local to Boston and setting up Justice Chamber will be less challenging as a result. We intentionally kept the physical materials needed to set up Justice Chamber to a minimum to increase its accessibility.