Speculative F(r)iction in AI Use and Governance
Bogdana Rakova, Val Elefante, Melissa, Kevin Hunt, Nikki HekmatA library of design fiction and constructive friction artifacts that empower improved human agency and AI literacy through sharing stories articulating, negotiating, and transforming friction between people and AI.
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engineer, researcher, Responsible AI, ex-Mozilla Fellow, building agentic AI systems evaluation pipelines through legal red-teaming, standardization, and socio-technical participatory design
Freelance researcher & writer working on tech for LGBTQIA+ expression\ud83c\udf08, financial empowerment\ud83d\udcb8, collective governance\ud83c\udf10, and spiritual transcendence✨ Projects include: Reliabl.ai, Lips.social, Metagov, & Cookie Jar Collective
Melissa writes, speaks, and listens—turning observations about culture, conventions, and daily life into critical essays, lingering reflections, and creative work.
Writer/Researcher. Culture & the senses. Film, painting, photography, design, embodied knowing, ecology, technology, space/time, touch, sound & vision… Director of Doctoral Programmes & Snr Lecturer, Nottingham School of Art & Design, NTU, UK.
Nikki Hekmat is a second-year Political Economy student at UC Berkeley with a minor in Creative Writing. On a pre-law track, she hopes to help regulate AI to protect the intellectual property of creatives, artists, and storytellers.
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