On October 5, four artists, researchers and technologists imagined a world out loud, together. Artificial Inquiries, a live worldbuilding card game about AI being developed by More&More, opened Eyebeam's 2026–27 year of programming around AGENCY. At a moment when so much attention goes to the supposed agency of “AI” systems, the panel was asked to turn some of it back toward the human decisions, values and structures that decide what those systems get built to do in the first place.
Together, the players, accompanied by a live illustrator, built a speculative future out loud. Prompt cards introduce new conditions and questions: How do people live and work? Who holds power? What gets valued? What happens to labor, data centers, planetary resources, pleasure, and multispecies life?
The event on October 5th was hosted by ITP and moderated by ITP faculty member Sarah Rothberg.