Slow AI
Slow AI is an invocation for counter narratives of AI, beyond big tech imaginaries
The Slow AI project seeks to unpack and re-imagine alternative narratives for AI outside Silicon Valley ideologies. Inspired by counter movements like slow fashion and slow food, it aims to subvert corporate-first thinking by collectively researching & practicing new perspectives such as Small AI, Ancestral AI, and Esoteric AI as ways to “imagine and craft the worlds we cannot live without, just as we dismantle the ones we cannot live within” – Ruha Benjamin.
We invite critical AI researchers, designers, creative technologists, and artists to interrogate and publish critical AI discourse through community sessions, webwoven essays, and playful critiques, creating one hot compost pile of anthologies, Miro boards and zines we hope will spark new modes of thinking & talking about AI.
This project is self-initiated and emerged from my own mixed feelings of working in the AI space over the past years, and a craving for better imaginaries, conversations, and horizons. I lead the project in terms of research, creative direction, curation, content, and general alignment and impact, supported by the fantastic AIxDESIGN dream team.
