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Critical AI Fresk

A collaborative card-based workshop to step back from artificial intelligence, examine its narratives, impacts, and blind spots, and open a more critical group conversation about AI uses.

Critical AI Fresk offers a collective exploration of artificial intelligence issues through a card-based workshop. Participants connect visible AI uses with infrastructure, data, design choices, power dynamics, and the social and ecological impacts around them. Following the Fresk format, the workshop creates an accessible discussion space: people handle cards, build links, compare viewpoints, and identify the questions that should be answered before adopting or deploying AI systems.

Introduction

Artificial intelligence is often presented as technical inevitability or as an abstract promise. This workshop brings it back into collective discussion: what do we want to automate, under what conditions, with which data, hidden costs, and alternatives? It is especially relevant for audiences that want to move beyond hype and build a more critical shared culture.

Audience

General public audiences curious about artificial intelligence issues.Teams, associations, libraries, campuses, and education settings.Organizations that want to frame AI use critically.

Outcomes

Understand key social, political, and ecological issues connected with artificial intelligence.
Connect data, infrastructure, models, uses, and impacts.
Identify blind spots and governance questions before deployment.
Open a collective conversation about desirable uses, limits, and alternatives.

Formats

in person

This workshop is developed by its own association. Ecogames helps organize it, include it in public events, and connect venues with trained facilitators.
Ecogames distributes more than half of registration fees back to the workshops' supporting associations, funding their deployment, evolution, and updates.

3h in person

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In a public event

For participants who want to understand AI beyond today's tools, this workshop opens a practical conversation about data, infrastructure, impacts, and the collective choices behind digital systems.

"A workshop to make AI collectively discussable, beyond fascination or reflex rejection."

What this workshop enables

Understand key social, political, and ecological issues connected with artificial intelligence.
Connect data, infrastructure, models, uses, and impacts.
Identify blind spots and governance questions before deployment.
Open a collective conversation about desirable uses, limits, and alternatives.

Who it is for

General public audiences curious about artificial intelligence issues.
Teams, associations, libraries, campuses, and education settings.
Organizations that want to frame AI use critically.

What participants say

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Critical AI Fresk

"The discussions were constructive, and the facilitation made it possible to reflect collectively step by step. It was great to be able to give shape to our thinking."

Audrey Anne Blanchet

Coordonnatrice ÉDI, Université de Sherbrooke

Critical AI Fresk

"Very interesting, with the discussion table, cards, and explanatory texts. I thought the concept was great."

Critical AI Fresk

"I really appreciated the discussions and collective reflection on a complex issue."

Critical AI Fresk

"Reading the cards, trying to find a pattern or a story to tell about a subject I’m trying to get to know and understand better, was very interesting."

Critical AI Fresk

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Voices from the field