  AI Stories is a proposed interactive dialogue system, that lets children
co-create narrative worlds through conversation. Over the next three years this
system will be developed and tested within pediatric wards, where it offers a
useful resource between the gap of education and play. Telling and making
stories is a fundamental part of language play, and its chatty and nonsensical
qualities are important; therefore, the prologued usage an automated system
offers is a benefit to children. In this paper I will present the current state
of this project, in its more experimental and general guise. Conceptually
story-telling through dialogue relates to the preprint interpretation of story,
beyond the static and linear medium, where stories were performative, temporal,
and social.
