Our Projects in 2021

This year we created provocations around the ethics in human-conversational agent relationships.

 

More about the projects

All storylines are set in the future between now up until the year 2050.

Each project consists of a service or feature and quotes from short interviews of humans experiencing human-agent relationships and their possibly unintended consequences.

 

The reactions we hope to get

We hope to see a wide spectrum of responses - from strong disagreement to some sort of partial agreement up to excitement - and that people will be contributing to the debate by feeling triggered by our work, raising even more relevant questions and pointing out further challenges to emphasize what we need to pay attention to when designing for these relationships.

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BLOODSISTERS

What if agents help you become the “best” friends?

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ROLEMODELS

What if agents would not allow for being negative role models for humans?

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HELPISHERE

What if humans would connect so deeply to their agents that they felt pain when they are suddenly gone?

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BABYAGENT & AGENTNANNIES

What if agents were like a blank canvas and humans would be able to shape their agents based on their preferred values?

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