Automatic Everything
Speculative design, short film
Activities: social research, narrative film making
A speculative design studio project at the MFA. Transdisciplinary Design program at Parsons
Creative tool: Adobe Premiere
2017
Social context
While AI is more and more ubiquitous in our daily lives, we are outsourcing our everyday decision-making to digital intelligence, and less and less relying on human intelligence in both the online and offline world.
What if in the near future, AI predictions are much more accurate than humans, and we make decisions from what AI tells us, from the big political decisions to the small decisions in everyday life?
Create
Speculative scenario, narrative film
We started from the plausible future phenomenon of “loss of causality” that in this near future, we humans either have no interests or are not capable of understanding AI predictions anymore. The predictions AI delivers to us don’t sound make sense to us but are accurate through AI algorithms. One example of AI prediction would be: borrow a yellow umbrella from the man next to you, and you will get a bottle of syrup for your pancake tomorrow.
In that case, what would intimacy look like in that world?
The narrative film below is telling the conversations between two strangers who meet for the first time in person, while they’ve already known all the information about each other, through AI.
Team: Chunk Kuan, Oliver Arellano, and me
Advisors: Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby