The Fox Who tricked the Superintelligence & Other Stories is an artwork and card game that harnesses storytelling to create alternative fairy tales about our technological futures.

Storytelling has long shaped culture by transmitting history, values and collective memory. Today, Big Tech dominates narratives about AI, promoting messianic visions of AI superintelligence as either humanity’s saviour or its extinction. These techno-futurist ideologies, ranging from space colonisation to digital immortality, echo colonial and eugenic thinking, where some are considered more worthy of survival than others, and the intelligence of a few is considered superior to the rest.

In The Fox Who Tricked the Superintelligence, players respond to Big Tech’s myths by collaboratively creating fairy tales. The aim is to redistribute the power of storytelling among players. The game takes place in a parallel world where a civilisation awaits the arrival of a promised Superintelligence. From there, the story is in the players’ hands: Does the Superintelligence make their world a better place? Does it threaten their existence? Do its inhabitants resist it, outsmart it, reshape it, or find ways of using it for the benefit of their community?

Through play, imagination and collective storytelling, participants are invited to challenge familiar assumptions about technological progress and explore different possibilities for how our relationship with AI might unfold. The stories created during the workshop will contribute to an online anthology of alternative fairy tales about technological futures.