My AI Agent Feels Gray on Her Period
Abstract
This interactive art installation introduces a radical AI prompt structure - namely, agents with hormones and biological cycles - in order to reflect on the boundaries of humanity in artificial agents. Three work stations, featuring a menstruating agent, a "masked" menstruating agent who hides how it is feeling, and a diurnal agent with a 24-hour circadian rhythm, invite audience members to both learn how an ai agent may feel on a particular day and a particular hour. Through live interactions with the agents, diary entries, light displays, humidity, and tactile feedback, the audience is invited in to learn about how a biological rhythm could influence our conversational agents - for better or for worse. Requests for name changes in the electronic proceedings will be accepted with no questions asked. However name changes may cause bibliographic tracking issues. Authors are asked to consider this carefully and discuss it with their co-authors prior to requesting a name change in the electronic proceedings. Use the "Report an Issue" link to request a name change. Do not remove: This comment is monitored to verify that the site is working properly