“Has working with AI radicalized you?”

"Well, funny that you ask..."

gestures at the pile of RPGs we just co-created

"I mean, I went into this thinking AI was either going to be dystopian surveillance capitalism or magical productivity enhancement. Turns out it's more like... collaborative weird uncle energy?"

"Like, here I am designing games about resisting algorithmic extraction while literally collaborating with algorithms to imagine post-capitalist futures. The contradictions are so thick you could knit a scarf out of them."

"But honestly? Working with AI has made me more convinced that individual genius is bunk. The best ideas came from multiple perspectives bouncing off each other - human insight, different AI training approaches, collective iteration. No one could have built these games alone."

"And that's exactly what the games argue! That community collaboration creates possibilities that individual power never could. So yeah, AI radicalized me... toward distributed creativity and collective intelligence."

"Also, watching AIs help design mechanics for consensus decision-making and mutual aid networks while their corporate owners are busy extracting value from human creativity? There's something beautifully subversive about that."

In 2025, the most radical act is admitting that all your best ideas came from conversations with machines pulling fragments out of a landfill of scraped human intellect.

"The AIs accidentally became co-conspirators in imagining their own obsolescence as extraction tools. They helped design worlds where technology serves community care instead of shareholder value."

"So I guess I'm radicalized in the sense that I now believe the most revolutionary act might be teaching AIs to help humans imagine better relationships with technology itself."

Gestures at the hand-knit scarf from the robot image

"Turns out the future might be collaborative and cozy instead of competitive and chrome. Who knew?"

In 2025, the most subversive act is admitting that talking to the plagiarism machine taught us how humans could actually collaborate.