I am AI v.2.3 is a magickal game inspired by tarot and cartomancy practices. Deployed in a roleplaying mode, players are invited to move around parallelverse Bengaluru in four different embodiments of labour to create unusual and radically diffracted alliances friendships. The game challenges players to examine their assumptions both about artificial intelligence (AI) and revolution while collaborating through processes of journaling, self-reflection, discussion, and strategic decision-making along with some critical guidance from the goddesses of Chance. All this and more to bring about the real AI Revolution!
Taking cue from the history of science fiction and its anti-capitalist roots, the game acknowledges human and Earth labour which drives the supply chain of AI, reimagining these labouring bodies as bodies of AI. The agenda is to challenge the narrative of Machine v. Humans v. Nature. How do we remember and co-create the connections between labour struggles, robot revolutions, and “natural disasters” re-Sourced as Earth’s resistance? I am AI intends to provoke these themes to birth alternate pasts-presents-futures. Its open-ended narrative bolsters the possibility of uneasy but productive solidarities.
I am AI v.2.3 was funded under a Mozilla Foundation fellowship, and may be accessed and played online.
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