Can humans co-evolve with AI? Reflecting on narrative research design in collaborative, co-evolutionary Explainable AI systems
Forum of Ideas | Moya Baldry
Date: Thursday 23 May
Workshop: 10am-11.30am
Location: QUT Gardens Point
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Moya Baldry
Moya presented on a creative artefact design, The Nadir, a virtual reality narrative for the noosphere, a fourth-order cybernetic space where humans and co-evolutionary AI systems interact. In reflecting on the design of this emergent system, the presentation explained the integration of age-old human-centred design techniques, including celestial navigation and symbolic rituals, with AI models to build Explainable AI strategies. The design decisions, such as embedding the AI systems as characters in the narrative, aimed to create a contextually aware and collaborative AI system that participates in self-governance. This research contributed creative approaches to Explainable AI, aiming to build trust and transparency in AI systems. The environment was designed to improve explainability methods, ensuring that the general public could participate in dialogue around the development of AI. The presentation engaged the audience in the design of The Nadir across multiple disciplines, including narrative and design research, cybernetics, future screen studies, AI, and human-centred design.
Moya is an interdisciplinary, human-centred researcher working across Extended Reality (XR) and digital media technologies, Narrative, and AI, and is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the ARC Training Centre for Behavioural Insights for Technology Adoption. Most recently Moya identified the socio-technical risks of Extended Reality social gaming environments, extending this to AI attacks-at-scale. How we can intervene in grooming and online social attacks using AI to build safe virtual spaces is a major focus of her research. Moya is also a creative practitioner and built one of the first location-based games for phones. Other projects (a 360 doco "Global Rivers" and AR novel "Thesaura and the Magical Notebook") investigate the effects of climate change on cultures. Her doctoral research designed a complex narrative for VR and she is exploring this research within the context of Explainable AI and self-governing AI systems.