JIA-REY CHANG: LOKITEST @ XAIxArts24

Jia-Rey Chang’s (Lecturer / MediaLab) AI interactive artwork, “Loki Test”, is selected to join the 2nd international XAIxArts (eXplainable AI for the Arts) workshop @ 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition in Chicago/Hybrid (23rd June 2024). The XAIxArts workshop intends to bring together a community of researchers and creative practitioners in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)/Interaction Design/AI/explainable AI (XAI)/Digital Arts to explore the role of XAI for the Arts. XAI is a core concern of Human-Centred AI and relies heavily on HCI techniques to explore how to make complex and difficult-to-understand AI models more understandable to people. It further discovers using AI as art materials to execute this concept. The “Loki Test” challenges AI obedience, with a chatbot named after the god of mischief aiming to joke rather than being satisfied and pleased. It sharply reflects the bias in AI's database and encourages critical thinking about AI trustworthiness. Unlike obedient AI assistants on the market, Loki prompts caution in trusting AI.

The XAIxArts 2024 website
The 16th ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition website
The Loki Test Video