Symposium “Perspektiven politischer Bildung”

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

Please, send your questions to: symposium@ph-ooe.at.