More details about this year's SEMFS Society for Early Modern French Studies Conference & the Society are available at this site. www.semfs.org.uk/conference/ Some images of the Conference in this post & the previous one have been manually edited to remove attendees who preferred not to be pictured.
![Image by BISA. A slide with text from a PowerPoint about the paper described in the post, including 'Challenges and Opportunities..., Limits of immersion? (How M.A.D are we?), AI-generated scenarios or aids to decision-making...baked in assumptions..., Unintended consequences..., The greatest unknown/'black box'...humans using games!' To the right there is a screenshot image showing leaders from the Civilization I game, including the text "[Non-wargaming example, but relevant...] Screenshot from Civilization I, of ruler Mahatma Gandhi, with the comment, "Greetings from M. Gandhi, ruler and King of the Indians...Our word are backed with NUCLEAR WEAPONS!" 1991 - a reference to the apocryphal glitch in the early Civilization games which accidentally made AI-controlled Gandhi the player most likely to use nuclear weapons and the meme culture which grew up around this (the precise circumstances and effects of the glitch, where it seems to occur, are debated). To the right of the screen are portraits of people on Zoom, attending the conference.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:gwcf7ysiy3njfk32qhes456i/bafkreifwoklopjedh24ac3pgaotgauvrz6ptzkg7b4hkggl64kfewkhr4a)
