Hannah Korsmeyer

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Hannah Korsmeyer’s research sits at the intersection of speculative design, qualitative futures studies, and the ethics of emerging technologies. Her most cited work, “Generative AI and Broken Futures” (2025), introduces a novel methodological approach that uses generative AI to produce speculative future narratives, which are then deployed as prompts to elicit people’s lived experiences and imaginaries of possible—and broken—futures. This contribution is significant because it demonstrates how AI can be a tool not just for prediction, but for critical, participatory inquiry into societal hopes and anxieties. With three citations in its first year, the paper signals growing interest in her approach among scholars of technology and society. Korsmeyer’s work challenges deterministic narratives of progress, instead foregrounding the messy, contested, and often unequal ways people envision what lies ahead. For students and researchers, her research offers a powerful example of how qualitative methods can be creatively adapted to study the cultural and ethical dimensions of AI, making her a key voice in the emerging field of critical futures studies.