Tracey introduces a tarot-style card deck pairing "system" cards (AI and infrastructure shaping behavior) with "self" cards (personal agency). Drawing one of each prompts reflection on whether you have more control than you think, and where hidden systemic forces might be steering your choices.
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I've got another piece which is gonna be out quite soon, which is called The System and Self. And one of the first iterations of it is a card deck. So I'm very conscious again of agency. I think agency will reside in people. It does reside in people. At the moment is being trained out of us. So we don't realize we have personal agency. The system, as it becomes more infrastructural and AI becomes embedded, guides you to behaviors, and kind of circumvents your choice. You don't even realize you have a choice on something because you're so in the system then, just like a cog in this big machine. And so there's an academic paper on this that is a preprint, it's just being peer-reviewed right now, but the card deck is the first interpretation or iteration of it. And the card deck has, it's a bit like a tarot pack and it's got lots of system cards and lots of self cards. And you draw one system and one self card and you basically challenge yourself to reflect on, actually, do I have more personal agency in this situation than I thought I did? Or how should I interpret, reinterpret, or, or re-perceive the situation where I can do something about this?
