Abstract
Smart cities are becoming an inevitable trend in the design of urban futures. With the speed of technological advancement, by the time that smart city visions come to life, the urban environment could already be seen as a co-living space of humans and technological entities, such as Artificial Intelligence. This raises the question of whether these future visions should get already co-created by both people and technology, especially given AI’s potential role as a decision-making agent in data-driven smart city visions (e.g. urban planning). In this workshop, we aim to explore how visions of smart city futures can be co-speculated by people and AI through the collaborative process of writing fiction. Through writing short speculative stories, we want to encourage participants to critically reflect on their own expectations about smart city futures, as well as on what values these should preferably be based on. Moreover, we will analyze and discuss the future narratives and potential biases that AI might bring into the process of futuring.
Role: Co-author
Type: Extended Abstract (Workshop)
Conference: Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference
Date: 2024
Co-Authors: Margarita Osipova, Jordi Tost, Konstantina Marra, Britta F. Schulte, Jeffrey Bardzell and Eva Hornecker
BibTeX
@inproceedings{aicitizen2024mindtrek,
author = {Osipova, Margarita and Tost, Jordi and Buruk, Oğuz 'Oz' and Marra, Konstantina and Schulte, Britta F. and Bardzell, Jeffrey and Hornecker, Eva},
title = {AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing},
year = {2024},
isbn = {9798400718236},
publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744},
doi = {10.1145/3681716.3681744},
abstract = {Smart cities are becoming an inevitable trend in the design of urban futures. With the speed of technological advancement, by the time that smart city visions come to life, the urban environment could already be seen as a co-living space of humans and technological entities, such as Artificial Intelligence. This raises the question of whether these future visions should get already co-created by both people and technology, especially given AI’s potential role as a decision-making agent in data-driven smart city visions (e.g. urban planning). In this workshop, we aim to explore how visions of smart city futures can be co-speculated by people and AI through the collaborative process of writing fiction. Through writing short speculative stories, we want to encourage participants to critically reflect on their own expectations about smart city futures, as well as on what values these should preferably be based on. Moreover, we will analyze and discuss the future narratives and potential biases that AI might bring into the process of futuring.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference},
pages = {330–335},
numpages = {6},
keywords = {AI Futuring, Design Fiction, Human-AI Collaboration, Irritation, Smart City, Speculative Design, Story Completion, Values},
location = {Tampere, Finland},
series = {Mindtrek '24}
}
Margarita Osipova, Jordi Tost, Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk, Konstantina Marra, Britta F. Schulte, Jeffrey Bardzell and Eva Hornecker. 2024. AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing. In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 330–335. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
Osipova, M., Tost, J., Buruk, O., Marra, K., Schulte, B. F., Bardzell, J., & Hornecker, E. (2024). AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing. In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24). pp. 330–335. 1-6. New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
Osipova, Margarita et al."AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing." In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24), New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, 2024, pp. 330–335. pp. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
Osipova, M., Tost, J., Buruk, O., Marra, K., Schulte, B. F., Bardzell, J., and Hornecker, E. (2024). ‘AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing’, In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24), p. 330–335. p. 1-6. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
Osipova M, Tost J, Buruk O, Marra K, Schulte BF, Bardzell J, et al. AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery; 2024. p. 330–335. p. 1-6. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
Osipova, Margarita, Jordi Tost, Oğuz 'Oz' Buruk, Konstantina Marra, Britta F. Schulte, Jeffrey Bardzell, and Eva Hornecker. "AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing." In Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24), New York, NY, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, (2024): 330–335. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
OSIPOVA, M.; TOST, J.; BURUK, O.; MARRA, K.; SCHULTE, B. F.; BARDZELL, J.; HORNECKER, E. AI as a Citizen: Eliciting Smart City Future Stories through Human-AI Collaborative Fiction Writing. In: Proceedings of the 27th International Academic Mindtrek Conference (Mindtrek '24). New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery, 2024. pp. 330–335. 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1145/3681716.3681744
