Last year I had the pleasure of contributing writing, research, and narrative design for Caroline Sinders and Romayne GadelRab’s new interactive installation that explores AI and decision making through the lens of disability benefits.
We drew inspiration from bureaucracy simulators such as “Papers, Please”, which have the player make decisions on other people’s lives. Instead of an allegorical dystopia, we decided to portray a near-future society beginning to attempt to reform the system to be more humane to disabled people. This attempt is furtive and incomplete, not least because its institutions still reduce people to numbers and datapoints.
The piece is now on display at Umea University’s Bildmuseet as part of the exhibition “AI and the Paradox of Agency”, which runs from 2026-03-13 to 2027-01-17.
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