Introduction
Liu Xiaoyi and Emergency Stairs brought language-model co-writing and human–machine script comparison into a bilingual theatre experiment.
Why this entry remains in the timeline
Editorial interpretation: performance and collaborative labour make the selection and presentation of model output researchable. Turing’s test is a creative prompt here, not evidence that a machine passed an intelligence test.
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RESEARCH ACCOUNT
Writing with AI: a bilingual theatre experiment in Singapore
ANTI-AI ARCHIVE · Revised 2026-10-24
Work, media and date
The company dates the project to 2021–2022 and describes platform trials followed by script co-writing for online presentation. Credits distinguish Chinese- and English-language writers, research, direction and editing.
Section sources: Official project account
Historical significance and questions
Editorial interpretation: performance and collaborative labour make the selection and presentation of model output researchable. Turing’s test is a creative prompt here, not evidence that a machine passed an intelligence test.
Section sources: Official project account
Sources for this account
Project text and credits, lines 87–123
Official Chinese text and credits reread; two English-page retries timed out, so tense and credit differences rely on batch 877. Model, code, licence and performance date remain unverified; the performance was not viewed. Regina/Ora credit variants are not silently merged. The account and translation are AI-assisted, pending independent human review. Section references identify evidence without claiming independent verification of every historical statement.
Continue with a comparative question
Compare Turing’s question with its use as a theatrical prompt, without equating performance with a scientific test.
Dates & version record
Date displayed for this node: 2021–2022 · Historical date recorded for the source: 2021/2022
Company-labelled project period; exact performance date unknown. Research-source access on 20 October and history accession on 24 October 2026 are not creation dates.
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Original sources & further reading
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Writing with AI / 与人工智能写作
https://emergencystairs.org/writing-with-ai-zh/
Current cited URL
Official Chinese text and credits reread; two English-page retries timed out, so tense and credit differences rely on batch 877. Model, code, licence and performance date remain unverified; the performance was not viewed. Regina/Ora credit variants are not silently merged.
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Provenance, translation & verification
Timeline entry #129 · Artistic practice and display
Research materials & supplement references · 1
Historical accessions, 24 October 2026 · Project text and credits, lines 87–123 · 001
Date as recorded: 2021/2022
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Writing with AI / 与人工智能写作
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ANTI-AI ARCHIVE. Writing with AI: a bilingual theatre experiment in Singapore. Art-history node #129. https://salondesrefuses.cn/en/art-history/367
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