Artificial Intelligence (AI) is omnipresent, without us always being aware of it. For many years it has been making our everyday lives easier, for example when mobile phones are unlocked by means of face recognition or when individual advertising guides us through the thicket of the Internet. AI can manipulate us humans. Can it become a danger to democracy? The first signs of this apparent development came with the Brexit vote or the US presidential elections.
In order to avoid feeling like Goethe’s sorcerer’s apprentice, the symposium will first of all work out how artificial intelligence already influences all our lives, where AI is already “thinking along” or even has already taken over thinking. We consider how this development influences our democratic system and how we can deal with it in the field of education.
The symposium will take place as part of this year’s Ars Electronica Festivals in cooperation with the University of Education.
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