Protopia: Human Agency vs Tech Theology

Monika Bielskyte's research explores how SciFi influences real future-making, and often biases us to focus on fictional dangers while ignoring very real risks. AI is set to supercharge hybrid warfare and facilitate social and geopolitical fracturing - how can we avoid fear-based narratives, while ensuring that Gen AI tools are used not just to simulate/distort our past or present reality, but also to foster population scale resilience and prototype more expansive, hopeful and livable future possibilities?