Fictional News Articles: Ethics, Sustainability, and Politics of AI Futures (Online)

There has been an increasing interest in discussing implications of AI technologies in terms of ethics and sustainability. This workshop brings such questions into focus by exploring questions of ethics and sustainability through the use of Fictional News Articles. We use Fictional News Articles to cast forward 15 years to 2038 to imagine the future trajectories of AI, and reflect on how we got there. By writing Fictional News Articles – articles of events that are yet to take place and to be written – we will unpick critical tensions in the advancement of AI over the next decades. The workshop invites participants to develop perspectives and sensitivities on the futures of AI-enabled society and to critically reflect on the assumptions, methods, and tools for enabling (and disabling) such futures, with a particular focus on questions of ethics and sustainability. 

Keywords 
Knowledge, design fiction, fictional news articles, ethics, sustainability

Call for Participation 
Prospective workshop participants will each submit a workshop application. Applications should meet the following requirements:

• Application should contain motivation for participating in the workshop, potential ideas they would like to explore in speculative news articles, affiliation, name, and email address.
• Participants are required to attend the workshop online via Zoom.

Preliminary Important Dates

• Submissions due: November 13, 2023
• Workshop: November 14, 2023

Note: Selected fictional news articles may be published in papers resulting from the workshops. By signing up and applying to the workshop, participants agree that the data produced during the workshop may be used to inform a future publication on the Speculative News Articles Method.

Registration and application

Register for the workshop.

Please note that in order to participate in this workshop you must also register for the conference via the event page. Registration for the conference opens on 15 August.

Organizers
Petra Jääskeläinen, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Camilo Sanchez, Aalto University, Finland
Anna-Kaisa Kaila, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Organizing Committee
André Holzapfel, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden