When AI Prompts Us: Queering the Predictable

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When AI Prompts Us: Queering the Predictable

A workshop with Hannah Silva exploring experimental approaches to writing in conversation with Large Language Models. Silva’s memoir ‘My Child, the Algorithm’ was one of the first books to engage creatively with AI, its “hallucinations” and glitches. Join her exploration into ways of neuroqueering today’s models. We will experiment with linguistic code-switching, inventive prompts, and ways of harnessing AI’s strengths.

Through practical exercises, we will discover how to transform AI from a tool of linguistic prediction into a collaborator in linguistic subversion. We will play with techniques for using AI to amplify and queer rather than flatten the edges of language, finding radical new forms of expression at the intersection of human and machine creativity. This isn’t about how to use AI to write better, but about how engaging with AI might prompt us to think and write differently.

This online, free, workshop is 1hr long, with 30 mins Q&A  at the end.

This is a small workshop with only 20 participants. Please only book if you are certain you can attend.

About Hannah Silva

HANNAH SILVA is a writer and performer confronting big ideas through formal innovation and a seriously playful approach to language and technology. Their work spans BBC radio dramas—winning the Tinniswood Award for best script—and two decades of critically acclaimed poetry and performance.Their sound poetry album ‘Talk in a bit’ was among The Wire’s top 25 albums of 2016.

Their latest book, My Child, the Algorithm (Footnote Press UK/Softskull Press North America), weaves memoir and fiction through conversations with a toddler and an early open source language model, exploring queer single parenting and love. It was named one of Granta’s Books of the Year 2023.

Most recently, an extract from Silva’s current writing on housing and universal credit earned a place on the 2024 Orwell Prize shortlist for Reporting Homelessness