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AI researcher Ethan Mollick launches interactive 'Imminence' game

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Ethan Mollick, an AI researcher, has developed an interactive web application called "Astra" that prompts users to create a game about "Imminence." The game's theme centers on a large, strange, and unknowable presence arriving in a suburb, aiming to evoke the feeling of the end of all things without resorting to horror, sadness, or fear. The application requires JavaScript to run and is accessible via a provided URL. AI

IMPACT This interactive application allows users to explore themes of existential change through game creation, potentially influencing creative AI applications.

RANK_REASON This is a product launch of a specific application, not a frontier AI model or significant industry event.

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AI researcher Ethan Mollick launches interactive 'Imminence' game

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  1. Bluesky Jetstream — AI desk TIER_1 English(EN) · emollick.bsky.social ·

    Astra's turn: "Make a game about Imminence. Something very big, very strange is happening. A suburb & the arrival of a vast & unknowable presence. Not horror, i

    Astra's turn: "Make a game about Imminence. Something very big, very strange is happening. A suburb & the arrival of a vast & unknowable presence. Not horror, invoke the feeling of the end of all things coming, inevitably, but also not sad or scary" Here: imminence-afternoon.net…

    LINKS imminence-afternoon.netlify.app

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