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PAPERS: After (En)during AI Location: McEwan Hall Auditorium Zoom Link Session Chair: Jesse Josua Benjamin, Eindhoven University of Technology Session Chair: Mafalda Gamboa, Chalmers/GU | |
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Small AI: A degrowth imaginary for designing with/for artificial intelligence 1: Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands; 2: Weizenbaum Institute, Germany This paper presents Small AI as a conceptual lever for designers to resist the ‘bigger is better’ trend in the discourse and development of Generative AI. We explore different types of Small AI: initially in relation to the size of models, as smaller models require less computational resources for both training and inference, thus implying a smaller ecological footprint. However, we extend the meaning of smallness to apply to political, epistemic and cultural domains as well. In this vein, the paper posits Small AI as an imaginary-in-the-making, and a rallying concept for an alternative innovation agenda that holds, in the spirit of E.F. Schumacher’s famous dictum, that it is small (AI) and not big (AI) that is beautiful. The paper draws conclusions for those designing with/for AI, positing Small AI as a form of ‘unmaking’ with which designers may re-articulate the entangled relations between users, computation, and worlds. View Paper: https://doi.org/10.21606/drs.2026.1193
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