DEATH ALGORITHM
The Artificial Intelligence Dilemma
Genre:
Philosophy
Author:
Roberto Simanowski
Publisher:
Passagen
Language:
German
AUTHOR BIO:
Roberto Simanowski, born in 1963, is a cultural and media scholar and has been a Distinguished Fellow of Global Literary Studies in the Excellence Cluster “Temporal Communities” at Freie Universität Berlin since 2020.
Pages:
119
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DESCRIPTION:
The dystopian promise of artificial intelligence is to return home to a paradise in which our own creation is our God and we take on the task of recognizing and making decisions.
They say, algorithms rule the world today and even more tomorrow.
We sit at the wheel of self-driving cars and control more and more social processes.
How do we program them and what happens when they finally program themselves?
The fear is as great as the hope and the moral dilemma.
Are algorithms allowed to decide who has to die in an emergency? Will artificial intelligence take away people's free will, protect them from themselves and send them back to the paradise of indecision? This book invites to philosophical speculation about our future. It is about the aporias and paradoxes of artificial intelligence. It wanders around in thought, connects the apparently unconnected and in the end sees in the inventors of Silicon Valley no more and no less than the managing directors of Hegel's Weltgeist.
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„Was reißerisch klingt, ist eine sehr kluge Analyse dessen, was Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) künftig eventuell zu leisten vermag, auch wenn wir Menschen dafür einen Preis zahlen müssen.“ - Holger Moos für Goethe Institut / Oktober 2020 „Simanowski stellt das Dilemma der KI anhand zahlreicher Beispiele – vom MIT- Projekt Moral Machine bis hin zu Ferdinand von Schirachs Gerichtsdrama Terror – brillant dar" - Christian Höller, für Springerin / Heft 3/2020 „Simanowskis Überlegungen sind im besten Sinne essayistisch und vereinen in diesem Formbezug eine weit ausgreifende Vielfalt diverser Überlegungen, ein vielfältiges Potpourri an Denkanstößen in einer luziden Hybridstellung zwischen Kritik und Zukunftsvision.“ - Simon Scharf für literaturkritik.de / 04.09.2020 „Ist Mark Zuckerberg der Na...
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