Killjoy Bot is an experimental dialectic tool designed to challenge student ideas at the early stages of creative project development. Inspired by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies the bot functions as a critical counterpart, delivering pessimistic or dismissive feedback on creative proposals while offering abstract, loosely contextualized prompts meant to inspire lateral thinking.
The pedagogical aim is to create productive friction: students are encouraged to question assumptions, identify weaknesses, and iteratively refine their creative concepts through synthesis and dialogue with an AI-generated antithesis.