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"But the most arresting demonstration of the conference for me didn't have anything to do with space creatures, killer robots, or alien life forms. It was a highly detailed digital avatar named Mica. In the demonstration, a riff on Marina Abramović's The Artist Is Present, I sat down at a wooden table opposite the digital character. With the Magic Leap One tracking my eye movement, Mica was able to maintain eye contact, and her subtle smiles and other facial expressions gave the distinct impression she was an interactive digital being. Mica wasn't completely responding to what I was saying or doing - though that is the eventual hope - but the demo nevertheless hinted at the ability to establish what felt like a real connection with a digital creation."

[...] "Le faux a-t-il envahi notre quotidien ? A voir l'étonnant Affordable Solution for Better Living, on est bien forcés de se poser la question. Cette performance dansée décrit en trois tableaux les tribulations d'un homme moderne dans son intérieur où tout est artificiel : du mobilier (imitation bois) à son enveloppe corporelle (une combinaison intégrale Zentaï), en passant par ses pensées (dictées par un assistant vocal)." "On est aussi frappé par la pâte sonore de ce spectacle, cette voix omnisciente qui dirige le personnage et ces extraits de bruits de la nature… S.M. : Nous nous sommes basés sur les tutoriels de remise en forme, qui soutiennent artificiellement le bien-être de l'homme moderne. C'est une sorte de logiciel Siri (assistant vocal), une présence maternelle, qui guide l'homme dans les étapes de sa construction, en parallèle de la construction du meuble. Mais même si cette voix est douce et qu'elle le motive, elle le surveille en permanence."

"Women Reclaiming AI (WRAI) is an expanding activist artwork, presented as a feminist AI voice assistant, programmed through participatory workshops by a growing community of self-identifying women. Through creating a platform for collective writing and editing, the project co-creates an AI that challenges prescribed gender roles. It is a response to the pervasive depiction of AI voice assistants gendered as women, subordinate and serving. Designed by development teams which lack diversity, these systems are embedded with unrepresentative world views and stereotype in ways that reinforce traditional gender roles. WRAI aims to reclaim female voices in the development of future AI systems by empowering self-identifying women to harness conversational AI as a medium for protest. This project is created by artists-technologists Coral Manton and Birgitte Aga in collaboration with an ever evolving community of self-identifying women."