The frameworks that inform the innovation and development of deep learning AI applications are embedded with layers of bias in the status quo. Kate Crawford in Atlas of AI, argues the far-reaching harms of biased technological systems. These algorithms, in practice, not only perpetuate the bias they are built on but also amplify the existing systems of discrimination.
MESIF - Marker of Emotional Stability, Intelligence, and Functionality
has become a universalised scoring system that demarcates the function of an individual in society. This system is an aggregate score of five AI-driven sub-scoring systems - Happiness Meter, Smile Scale, Resting Factor, Labour Rate and Social Life Expectancy. These sub-systems are based on the AI research and experiments of 2024 - Mental-Health Biomarkers, Computer Vision, Movement Analysis, Office Monitoring, and Social Media AI tools, respectively.
Methodologies
Thinking through Making | Narrative Building | Participatory Design | Research through VR | Speculative Fictions
Collaborators
Team Members
(Collective Research + Narrative Building + Execution)
Unity Designer - Yashika Goel
(Collective Research + Narrative Building + Execution)
Unity Designer - Yashika Goel
3D Maker - Emerald Chen
Tools and Mediums
Virtual Reality > Immersive Experience >
Unity for VR Development
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What do you eat in VR ?
Will You Eat Me? is an interactive speculative storytelling experience wherein the audience is invited to create their own cheesburgers using speculative digital food ingredients, while listening to the narration encapsulating the journey of food from today to tomorrow.
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Why speculate VR Food Futures ?
As climate change fundamentally alters our food production capabilities, there's an urgent need to reimagine our relationship with food consumption. While this future might seem distant, the decisions we make today directly shape tomorrow's dining table.
"Will You Eat Me?" emerged as a response to this critical juncture, using virtual reality not just as a technological tool, but as a medium for embodied storytelling that bridges the gap between current food practices and potential future realities. The project deliberately employs familiar actions - like building a burger - to make abstract concepts about food sustainability tangible and personally relevant. By contrasting comfortable food memories with unfamiliar future alternatives, the experience creates a space for meaningful discourse about food sustainability while remaining accessible to diverse audiences.
Signal - Softbank and their Emotion AI
1. Emotion Cancelling AI that is built for better customer srvice by altering emotional states of the employees through changing tones of customer speech, and AI triggered video montage to calm and relax the employee.
Refer here.
Signal - Bumble AI Assistant?
2. Bumble co-founder suggesting an AI Concierge that would date other people’s AI concierge so you don’t have to talk to anyone and everyone.
Refer here.
Signal - AI Therapists
3. Masses increasingly seeking AI advice for their mental health concerns through AI chatbots and AI therapist bots, disregarding harm enacted through computational bias.
Refer here and here.