Can AI Help Us Embrace Complexity on a Journey Towards Empathy?

At Komons, we have spent the past five years analyzing cultural battles across diverse contexts through the lens of narrative change—exploring dominant, marginalized, and emerging narratives. Our work spans topics such as disinformation, hate speech, and narratives of collaboration. By examining digital complexity and fostering collective processes, we’ve observed how understanding these dynamics can empower diverse social actors to collaborate effectively, even amidst their differences.

In this session, we invite you to experiment with a prototype solution we have developed. It aims to foster positive experiences by engaging with challenging contexts and uncovering insights to better understand complexity. Participants will be invited to converse for a few minutes with an AI prototype, designed to embody distinct perspectives on climate change. These bots, built on digital analysis, provide a platform for reflection and discussion of diverse viewpoints.

We encourage participants to converse with one of the bots with an open mind, setting aside assumptions to enrich our collective understanding of complexity. What might we discover? What can we empathize with?

The goal is to test whether these virtual interactions can foster empathy and increase awareness of the complexities surrounding social dynamics and climate change. Join us on this experimental journey to explore how AI might help us navigate complexity and deepen connections in an increasingly fragmented digital age