Adults 18+ - Oral History Living Through AI's Arrival

**Would you like to add your voice to a national oral history project about what it is like to live through the arrival of AI?** I have launched "Who We Are Now: First-Person Stories from a World Being Changed by AI", a national oral history project capturing people's experiences with AI now, while the technology is still relatively new and its effects on our lives, our work, and our futures are still unfolding. **You do not need to be an AI expert.** I am interested in how AI is affecting ordinary people in all kinds of ways: at work, at school, at home, in relationships, in creative work, and simply in how we think about the future. I want to hear from people who are excited about AI, worried about it, skeptical of it, benefiting from it, being harmed by it, or still trying to figure out what they think. If you are interested in participating, we would do interview over Zoom and it would last about 30 minutes. The oral history would be an audio recording; the video would not be part of the collection. The format is similar to my first national oral history project. From September 2020 through September 2021, I traveled 12,000 miles across the United States interviewing people from all walks of life about their lives during the COVID pandemic. The audio files of all the interviews are going to be preserved at a university. Excerpts from 100 of those interviews were published by UNC Press in association with the Duke Center for Documentary Studies in *Who We Are Now: Stories of What Americans Lost and Found During the COVID-19 Pandemic*, which was named a “2023 Outstanding Academic Title” by the American Association of College and Research Libraries. Many oral histories are collected years after the events they document. I am interested in something different: capturing what people are thinking, feeling, experiencing, and saying while history is still happening. If you would like to be interviewed, please message me here or email me at [email redacted]. I am happy to answer any questions.