We invite anyone in the games community interested in engaging in design fiction surrounding the use of AI in a playful, social, and anti-productive manner to join us for an inaugural workshop on the topic at the FDG 2024 conference in Worcester, MA.
This workshop, taking inspiration from a workshop held at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in 2018 on post-capitalist HCI, is geared toward visions for a future of AI which is focusing on applications that lay outside of the hegemonic, productive, and capitalist values that pervade much of the current systems. Instead, we encourage focus on applications of AI with values that we believe to be anti-capitalist, or ones that are playful, social, and anti-productive. Through the course of this half-day workshop, speculative designs of AI systems will be generated. The FDG conference theme this year on playing well together supports this workshops’ values - as we encourage people to think about social and playful uses of AI as well as those that are anti or counter-productive, or systems not concerned with increasing productivity or profit. With this workshop, we aim to bring an interdisciplinary group together - not only those that have an AI research focus, but anyone interested in discussing more about this topic, and understanding how AI systems can be designed now and in the future to better promote anti-capitalist values.
Full workshop schedule and activities coming soon!
Relevant Dates:
Submissions: Monday, March 25, 2024 AoE
Notifications: Thursday, April 1, 2024
Workshop: May 21, 2024