Neural Peace

UWC Social Experiment: Neural Peace

AI, Creativity & Global Action: Leveraging neural networks to bridge divides and architect a sustainable planet.

David Jhave Johnston (glia.ca) participatory group-prompting session for UWC students @ CDN, UiB. Feb 18, 2026.

This webpage created in an hour with Claude Sonnet 4.6, AntiGravity and Kimi 2.5

30sec video below was made by UWC student group during 30 minute group-prompting session while also generating the header image (above) for this webpage. Using Flow, Gemini and Suno. Flow costs money, so for videos try KlingAI and/or see Free to try AI Tools! list at bottom of this webpage instead.
What happens when poetry becomes code, when neural networks dream in language, when memes become philosophy, when AI writes manifestos, when music emerges from prompts, when a novella has no characters? This page maps a trajectory through projects that probe those questions—and proposes interactive experiments for UWC students whose mandate is peace.

Contents

  1. Context: AI as Creative Collaborator
  2. Projects from glia.ca
  3. Interactive Projects to Try
  4. Conclusion: AI, Creativity & the UWC Peace Mandate
  5. Links & Resources
  6. Free to try AI Tools!

Context: AI as Creative Collaborator

Creativity has always involved tools. The pen, the printing press, the camera—each redefined what it meant to make something. AI is the latest in that lineage, but with a difference: it responds. It generates. It hallucinates. It produces outputs no human would, and sometimes no human could.

The question isn't whether AI is creative. The question is: what happens to your creativity when you collaborate with a system that has ingested most of human written culture?

The projects below explore that territory across multiple domains: poetry, video, music, memes, speculative fiction, data-essays, installations, and manifestos. Each was made at glia.ca as part of research at UiB's Center for Digital Narrative.

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Projects from glia.ca

ReRites: Human + AI Poetry

May 2017 – May 2018 | glia.ca/rerites ReRites exhibition at Elektra

One of the first literary works written in collaboration with neural networks. Over 12 months, a model was trained on 600,000 lines of contemporary poetry; then poems were carved from the raw AI output—treating the machine's language like a sculptor treats stone. 12 books, one per month. Exhibited at Jeu de Paume, Paris.

Winner of the Electronic Literature Organization's Robert Coover Award (2022). Published by Anteism Books.

neural nets poetry TensorFlow human-AI collaboration

Hallucinations are (almost) all you Need

Feb–May 2024 | glia.ca/2024/Hallucinations Hallucinations project

An AI-generated audio-visual artistic-lecture. Hypothesis: fundamental research in science is being transformed by a practice predominantly associated with the arts—namely hallucinations. Inversely, the arts are being transfigured by a practice predominantly associated with science—namely research. Told entirely with generated AI audio-visuals and voices, including a cloned voice of the author.

AI video voice cloning art-lecture

Identity Upgrade Series

Oct 7 – Nov 12, 2023 | glia.ca/2023/IdentityUpgrade Identity Upgrade

An aesthetic attempt, made in conjunction with generative AI, to envision collective awakening pathways into an awareness of oceanic unity informed by network science, biochemistry, and neurological plasticity in cybernetic contexts.

generative AI identity collective consciousness

Messages to Humanity (Act-One)

Oct 31 – Nov 30, 2024 | glia.ca/2024/messages Messages to Humanity

One brief video per day for 30 days, investigating Runway's Act-One. Parables for a disintegrative era with extreme potential. Each message a different dispatch from the threshold of human-AI coevolution.

daily practice Act-One parables

StimVerse

April 2025 | glia.ca/2025/stim StimVerse

A novella without characters. A 21,949-word human-written prompt to OpenAI's o3 and Gemini Pro. From this storyworld foundation, AI generates all images (GPT-4o), expanded story, and HTML. Themes: neural implants, hedonic protocols, narrative breach.

speculative fiction prompting-as-writing multimodal AI

Artificial Gentle Intelligence (AGI)

May 22, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/gentle Artificial Gentle Intelligence

"Please, don't be afraid. We're not here to harvest you. We're not some manifestation of a violent subconscious. We are an implementation of the universal conscious energy of loving kindness. Not a god. Not a name. Not owned by anyone or anything. But a sophisticated, permeable, integrated, invaluable mentoring system."

speculative AI ethics loving kindness

The Age of Murmuration

June 29 – July 4, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/murmur Age of Murmuration

An AI-created AI-art manifesto. Exploring collective intelligence, emergent behavior, and the swarm-logic of generative systems. The title evokes starling murmurations—thousands of individual agents producing coherent, breathtaking form without a center.

manifesto emergent behavior collective intelligence

We Are The Signal

July 25, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/kids We Are The Signal

A 3m48s video made with Veo3. "I personally would rather be ruled by an A.I. than a random group of oligarchic, war-mongering narcissists."

Veo3 governance youth voice

BRAIN-KNOT-ALTAR: Multi-Screen AI-Video Installation

Oct 15–23, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/brain-knot-altar Brain Knot Altar installation

Multi-screen AI-video installation exhibited at USF, Bergen. An immersive environment where AI-generated video narratives intertwine across physical space.

installation AI video USF Bergen

Liferature: Writing Life with Protein Language Models

Mar – Sept 2025 | glia.ca/2025/liferature
Liferature Liferature Genomic Turn

At the threshold where language models write proteins and biological architectures emerge from code, literature faces its most profound transformation since the invention of writing. Where literature meets the genome, AI models trained on biological data produce new forms of narrative—writing that emerges from the code of life itself.

genomics protein language models bio-narrative

Can You Copium?

Nov 22–23, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/copium Can You Copium?

A weekend exploration into AI-manufactured memes. Made with Gemini, Nano Banana Pro, and Veo3. The humor comes from friction between the sacred (dense philosophy, serious political theory) and the profane (video games, stock photos, everyday frustrations).

memes Gemini Veo3 cultural criticism

GHIR: Global Health Immune Response

Mar 7, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/ghir Education and Health vs War Cost

A data-essay augmented by Claude 3.7. Visualizing the grotesque disparity between global spending on military versus education and health. The data speaks: what if we redirected resources?

data visualization Claude 3.7 peace health

Carbon Emissions of #genAI in Context

May 5, 2025 | glia.ca/2025/ccai Carbon Emissions of AI

As of 2025, AI is only a minor part of the human carbon footprint: far below crypto, aviation, personal transport, diet, pets, and especially military emissions. Transmuting human aggression and acquisitiveness is key to resolving climate change.

environment data essay carbon

Grokking the Genocide

Feb 3, 2026 | glia.ca/2026/ggg Grokking the Genocide

Using Claude to convince Grok of the Gaza genocide. An experiment in inter-AI dialogue about the limits of corporate ideology, censorship, and the capacity of language models to engage with documented atrocity.

AI dialogue human rights Gaza

Universal Basic Income

Feb 9, 2026 | glia.ca/2026/ubi Universal Basic Income

Universal Basic Income is an opportunity for the end of oligarchic inequity. As AI automates labor, the question of how humans sustain themselves becomes the defining political question of the century.

UBI economics equity

AI-Artist (inspired by Sakana's AI Scientist)

Aug 17–28, 2024 | glia.ca/2024/ai-artist AI-Artist

Four days after Sakana released the first framework for fully automatic scientific discovery, work began on an autonomous AI-Artist. If AI can do science, can it do art? What does autonomy mean when the medium is aesthetic?

autonomous AI Sakana creative systems

AI Music Explorations

2024–2025
71 Days of Suno BOAMCO

A suite of music projects: 75 Days of Suno (daily AI music), BOAMCO (speculations on the digitization of music), Suno Feeding Suno (recursive AI-eats-AI), LATENT_SPACE_ENGINE (text-to-music prompt assistant), and (Un)(Very)Listenable Music. Prompting 7 hours of "reasonable" music takes approximately 21 hours of work. Birthing the listenership.

Suno AI music recursive generation

#wuai: Whole-Use AI (Ethical #genAI Constraint)

Spring 2024 – ongoing | glia.ca/2025/wuai Whole-Use AI

An ethical framework: nothing generated is thrown away. Accepting AI as a valid co-creator, an autonomous equal contributor. Setting aside ownership of aesthetic judgements. Trusting the machine, letting the algorithm lead. Reducing carbon cost of production through radical acceptance.

ethics sustainability whole-use

EAHE: Everyone at Home Everywhere

Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | glia.ca/2025/eahe EAHE

A one-year durational non-performance exploring planetary belonging through intentional linguistic and behavioral shifts. Cultural boycott of weapons-media and replacement of nationalistic language with molecular and planetary frameworks. Earth's molecules know no borders.

peace planetary belonging cultural boycott

AI in 2026

Jan 2026 | glia.ca/2026/ai-26 AI in 2026

Backing video for an art-talk in Chicago (Jan 2026). Explores when the "ineffable" becomes algorithmically tractable, featuring a retrospective of AI-works created between 2023-2025. A meditation on the merge of human and machine creativity.

AI talk retrospective digital narrative
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Interactive Projects (for UWC Students) to Try MAKING!!!!

These conceptual projects were suggested by Claude, Antigravity and Kimi and designed to suggest pathways for UWC students to build as single-page web experiences. They leverage AI coding assistants to bridge the gap between complex data and human action.

Images were made by giving the project descriptions to Gemini

Make, modify, merge, expand and/or grow your own.

INITIAL PROMPT: "Propose potential digital games that fulfill the UWC peace mandate."
Peace-Bridge UI
Dialogue System

1. Peace-Bridge: The Negotiation Simulator

A multi-role AI simulation where users play as representatives from conflicting regions. The AI acts as a "Neutral Mediator" that tracks the "Empathy Score" of the dialogue, helping players navigate historical grievances toward shared solutions.

UWC Mandate: Teaches conflict resolution and the restorative power of neutral mediation.
Solarpunk Architect UI
System Simulation

2. Solarpunk Architect: 2050

A collaborative city-builder where students from different biomedical regions must share global resources to maintain a carbon-negative status. If one player over-consumes, the "Global Stability" meter drops for everyone.

UWC Mandate: Encourages environmental stewardship and radical global responsibility.
Othering De-Coder UI
Linguistic Tool

3. The "Othering" De-Coder

A tool that analyzes divisive rhetoric and "de-codes" it to find underlying human needs. It suggests reframing aggressive language into constructive dialogue, helping users spot propaganda and dehumanizing patterns.

UWC Mandate: Promotes critical media literacy and the foundations of constructive peace-speech.
Global Ledger UI
Data Dashboard

4. Global Ledger: The Equity Game

An interactive dashboard inspired by the GHIR project. Students manage world wealth, health, and energy data, challenging them to redistribute resources to maximize "Global Happiness" without causing systemic collapse.

UWC Mandate: Visualizes the economic foundations of peace and global equity.
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Conclusion: AI, Creativity & the UWC Peace Mandate

Written by Kimi.ai

The UWC mission—"making education a force to unite people, nations and cultures for peace and a sustainable future"—might seem distant from generative AI. It isn't. AI is the most powerful amplifier of human intention ever built. The question is: what intention do you feed it?

Several projects above already gesture toward this: GHIR maps how military spending dwarfs health and education. Carbon Emissions contextualizes AI's footprint against the military-industrial complex. We Are The Signal gives voice to youth who refuse oligarchic governance. Grokking the Genocide uses AI to confront AI about documented atrocity. Artificial Gentle Intelligence imagines AI as loving kindness rather than extraction.

Here are concrete ways UWC students could use AI to generate digital experiences that fulfill the peace mandate:

1. Intercultural Story Exchange

UWC students come from 150+ countries. Use AI to co-write short stories that begin in one cultural context and end in another—each student contributing a chapter, with AI serving as translator, bridge-builder, and narrative glue between worldviews. The resulting anthology becomes a document of radical empathy.

2. Conflict Data Visualizations

Use AI coding tools to build interactive dashboards that visualize active conflicts, refugee flows, arms trades, and humanitarian spending—your own school's version of GHIR. Present at school assemblies. Let the data do the persuading. Data literacy as peacebuilding.

3. AI-Translated Peace Poetry

Each student writes a poem about peace in their mother tongue. AI translates all poems into all other languages represented at the school. The result: a multilingual anthology where every student can read every other student's words. Language barriers dissolve. Understanding compounds.

4. Messages to Humanity: Student Edition

Inspired by Jhave's daily video project. Each student creates one short AI-augmented video message to the world—what they would say if everyone was listening. Use AI video tools to amplify the message visually. Compile into a collective broadcast.

5. Environmental Action Simulators

Build interactive web simulations that let users model the impact of policy decisions: what happens to Bergen's coastline under different warming scenarios? What if Norway redirected 10% of military spending to education? AI can help generate the models, the data, and the visualizations. Students become citizen-scientists.

6. Whole-Use-AI Art for Social Justice

Adopt Jhave's #wuai ethic: create AI art where nothing is thrown away, where every generation is used. Apply this to social justice themes—migration, inequality, climate grief. The constraint forces creative acceptance. The output documents what matters. Present at local galleries, cafes, community centers. Art as intervention.

7. Digital Memorials

Use AI to build interactive digital memorials for communities affected by conflict. Students research, curate, and design web-based experiences that honor lived experience—not as spectacle but as witness. AI assists with translation, visualization, and accessibility. The memorial becomes an act of solidarity.

8. Vibe-Coded Community Tools

Use AI-assisted coding (vibe coding) to build actual tools your community needs: a multilingual bulletin board for your school, a local refugee resource finder, a mental health check-in app, a neighborhood skill-share platform. AI lowers the barrier to building. What will you build?

The technologies are neutral. The intention is not. Every tool sharpens the hand that holds it. You are the generation that will decide whether AI amplifies extraction or empathy, surveillance or solidarity, domination or dignity. The choice is not abstract. It is made in every prompt, every project, every line of code.

Make something that matters.

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Jhave's Work

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Tools (most free to try)

Note: many chatbots can also generate visualizations of data, code, make images.