A Better World

AI-enhanced creativity

A Better World is a collective brainstorming experience assisted by an AI-powered system.

Tasked with the objective of coming up with one concrete idea for making the world a better place, participants use their collective intelligence to imagine the most desirable solution.

Along the way they can rely on IAnn, their AI sidekick, to whom they can turn for inspiration, feedback and foresight.

Credits
A project by Pierre Thirion

Curation: Nicolas Fonseca

Original Commission: C2 Montréal 2022
Original Presentation supported by: Mavrik

Object Design: Isaac-Pierre Racine

Beta Testers: Michael Baker, Mourad Bouaziz, Cécile Chandran, Ingrid Enriquez-Donissaint, Thomas Heller, Jean Hounkpe, Allan Johnson, Laura de Lanouvelle, Sonia Malek, Olivier Philippe, Yolène Le Roux, Eva Schindling

IAnn provides inspiration in the form of thousands of ideas it generated and which are printed live on thermal paper.

Participants are invited to browse them, and pick the one they find the most inspiring.

These ideas are starting points for the ensuing conversation, during which people will collectively agree on the most pressing challenge to solve and brainstorm ideas on how best to solve it.

At anytime during this process, they can turn to the system for guidance.

For example, IAnn provides participants with her opinion on which of their objectives has the most potential to make the world a better place.

She can also perform a cost / benefit analysis of any given idea, challenging participants to revisit what might have looked like a great idea on paper.

At the end of the experience, IAnn offers a prediction on how the group's final idea might change the world over the next decades - for the better or the worst.