Applied Intelligence Issue N°001

Extra! Extra! Get your newspaper from a possible AI future! 
A Design Fiction artifact that imagines a (possible) world we inhabit in which artificial intelligence is mundane, woven seamlessly into the fabric of everyday life.
In fact — we may not even refer to it as artificial, or intelligent, or artificially intelligent or think of it with the same emotional confusion we do today, any more than we marvel at wheels on luggage, wireless speakers, or smart toasters.
This newspaper explores the implications of AI futures through speculative narratives and future artifacts.
Each piece of content in the newspaper represents a material cultural component of the world, based on current trends as well as speculations about the multiple directionalities and implications of AI futures.
Topics covered include AI-enabled spiritual and psychic rituals, Digital Twins (‘Digitwins’), AI-enabled companion intellects, AI-enabled emotional support intelligences (ESIs), home appliances, toys, sports as AI-backed simulations, crime ('prompt front-running’), entertainment (generative films, generative music, the future of the record 'album'), and more.
Tabloid format, 32 pages, full color.
Read more about the process and the artifact here on the Near Future Laboratory project archive.