AI Yesterday
Project Leads:
PhD researcher
Interaction designer
Interaction designer
AI Yesterday is a digital zine that challenges dominant narratives about AI’s potential futures. Through experimental, freeform participation, the project embraces voices and outputs that academic writing and journalism often exclude. Historically, zines help make the communities that create them. The AI Yesterday community will integrate academics, artists, technology practitioners and communities of users. Our methods call for wider literary and creative participation within a supportive environment, providing a space for a community to grow with an ongoing, embedded peer support system. Through this collaboration, joining disparate groups that work on or are affected by the same technology, new visions for AI research, practice and use will emerge.
AI yesterday is a co-created, multi-institution project among partners that sit across academia and technology practice. Together, we aim to scale both tool and a network. We also plan to make AI itself a contributor. A GPT3 NLP-enabled bot will critically engage with the AI Yesterday community, making AI become both our central focus and an engaged participant, providing even more material for the broader community to reflect upon.
