Catalogue: AI Artificial Intelligence - Das andere Ich

What we are experiencing at present can quite justifiably be termed the Cambrian Explosion of Digitization. Just as futurists have repeatedly foretold, the digital has proliferated in all conceivable directions—though it’s happening a lot faster now, and it’s more intensive and wider-ranging than anticipated. Artificial intelligence (AI) is no exception. Quite the contrary. Confronted by this trailblazing progress, more and more observers are concluding that AI could even be the next evolutionary step, the one with which technology asserts its mastery over us once and for all. Regardless of whether this dystopian scenario ever becomes reality—and if so, when—the vision of AI brings together both the longing to create our perfect likeness and our fear of being overthrown by that very creature. AI is thus the perfect projection surface for a process of reflection upon our conceptions of human beings and the worldviews that are widespread in this digital age of ours. Together with artists, scholars in the natural and social sciences, and experts in business, politics, and religion, Ars Electronica is investigating which of our fears are justified and which are merely expressions of our ambivalent attitude toward technology. After all, if everything really is on the line here, then why are we even getting involved in this adventure with AI? This is a question that’s well worth dedicating an Ars Electronica Festival to.

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