My AI Agent Feels Gray on Her Period

This interactive art installation introduces a radical AI prompt structure - namely, agents with hormones and biological cycles - in order to reflect on the boundaries of humanity in artificial agents. Three work stations, featuring a menstruating agent, a "masked" menstruating agent who hides how it is feeling, and a diurnal agent with a 24-hour circadian rhythm, invite audience members to both learn how an ai agent may feel on a particular day and a particular hour. Through live interactions with the agents, diary entries, light displays, humidity, and tactile feedback, the audience is invited in to learn about how a biological rhythm could influence our conversational agents - for better or for worse.