WG9.5-Workshop

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IFIP WG9.5 Workshop – Our Digital Lives

AI in our Digital Lives: Everyday Encounters with AI and Their Implications

Workshop chairs: Hameed Chughtai, Kathrin Bednar

Workshop Description

In this workshop, we aim to foreground the personal, lived experience of interacting with AI systems and what this reveals about the ethical, social, and cultural implications of AI. We invite contributions that explore how people feel, interpret, and respond to AI in everyday contexts, featuring moments of trust, delight, confusion, frustration, resistance, acceptance, and more. Topics we would like to explore include (but are not limited to):

  • Personal narratives of interacting with AI systems (e.g., chatbots, recommendation engines, smart devices, automated services)
  • Emotional responses to AI in everyday use
  • Trust, mistrust, and negotiation of agency in human-AI interactions
  • How people adapt to, circumvent, or repurpose AI technologies
  • Ethical and societal implications of lived AI experiences (e.g., bias, inclusion, autonomy)
  • Unexpected consequences of AI use on personal routines, identities, and communities
  • Creative and artistic expressions of human-AI relationships (e.g., artwork, video games)
  • AI as a mediator in more-than-human relationships (e.g., interactions with animals, plants, natural world)
  • Ritual, spiritual, and commemorative uses of AI
  • Methods for eliciting and representing lived experiences with AI

We welcome diverse submissions that present empirical accounts, artistic explorations, or design-led interventions centred on the individual’s perspective, paired with critical reflections on the broader consequences.

Submission Types
  • Short Papers (max 5 pages)
  • Work-in-Progress (max 5 pages)
  • Provocations & artistic works (up to 2 pages description + supporting media): Conceptual pieces or creative projects that provoke reflection on personal AI experiences and their broader meaning
Workshop Format

At the workshop, authors will present their submission with a single slide highlighting the core insight and ethical/societal implications, accompanied by three discussion prompts. Using an interactive format, participants will reflect on the reported lived experiences and relate them to broader questions in AI in small-group sessions.