troubling AI: a screenshot archive 📸

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI?

This evolving archive gathers screenshots of troubling AI encounters, together with comments on their circumstances and how they are troubling.

The screenshot is perhaps one of today's most familiar and accessible modes of data capture. With regard to AI, screenshots can capture moments when situational, temporary and emergent aspects of interactions are foregrounded over behavioral patterning. They also have a 'social life': we share them with each other with various social and political intentions and commitments.

Screenshots have accordingly become a prominent method for documenting and sharing AI's injustices and other AI troubles - from researchers studying racist search results to customers capturing swearing chatbots, from artists exploring algorithmic culture to social media users publicizing bias.

With this archive, we are aiming to build a collective picture of AI's weirdness, strangeness and uncanniness, and how screenshotting can open up possibilities for collectivizing troubles and concerns about AI.

If you'd like to contribute, please send us mobile phone screenshots, laptop or desktop screen captures, or other forms of grabbing content from a screen, including videos or other types of screen recordings. You can share them via this form.

This project is co-organised by Joanna Zylinska, Tommy Shaffer Shane, Axel Meunier and Jonathan W. Y. Gray as a collaboration between the Digital Futures Institute's Centre for Digital Culture and Centre for Attention Studies at King's College London, the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris and the Public Data Lab.

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