For the 50th episode of Off Center, host Scott Rettberg visits Sciences Po’s Médialab in Paris to speak with design research lead Donato Ricci and sociologist Gabriel Alcaras. They explore how people actually live and work with large language models in everyday practice, moving beyond broad media hype to uncover the unspoken labor, emotional crutches, and professional anxieties surrounding AI. The conversation highlights how innovative research design - from analog reflection notebooks to performative and multimodal publishing - creates space for honest dialogue about human-machine collaboration.References
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