Narrativas del futuro comestible

Abstract

At the beginning of 2023 we found ourselves with the possibility of holding conversations with an Artificial Intelligence language model (Chat GPT), which allowed us to ask questions and expand the imaginaries about other possible forms of what we knew up to that moment. In the same way, the model stimulates thinking about the future and the challenges that we will face in our daily lives, such as what we eat. This led us to have a conversation with Chat GPT about the future of food and what is the future of cooking in Colombia.
This reflection will take fragments of that conversation, where we obtained responses of a universal order that evidenced the power dynamics between the global North and global South. Which led us to ask questions that showed gaps of a cultural, political and social nature between both scenarios of the future. However, the most striking thing was that in neither of the two scenarios did responses associated with solving hunger arise, this being one of the biggest problems of the current and Colombian food system. In this sense, this article presents a reflection on the future of Colombian cuisine, the questions we are asking ourselves about the future and those that we still need to propose.