STORY  SYSTEMS  LAB

Story Systems Lab explores how stories shape human understanding in an age of artificial intelligence. Through research and creative experimentation, we investigate the increasingly unstable boundaries between fact and fiction, and between human and machine-generated narratives.

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Stories in the Age of AI

A person with red hair looking through a small circular mirror held by their hands, focusing on their eye.

STORY LAB PROMPT: What happens when our our deepest stories flow through AIs made in our likeness?

Four astronauts walking in a barren, rocky desert landscape with layered red and beige hills under a partly cloudy sky. Each astronaut has a numbered backpack, with visible numbers 6, 5, and 1.

Featured Case Study: Mars on Earth

At the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, scientists, engineers, and artists inhabit a carefully constructed fiction: that they are living and working on Mars. Within this imagined future, they conduct real scientific research.

This case study explores a question at the heart of Story Systems Lab: Can fiction become a tool for making new knowledge?

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