Roberto Simanowski: "On the Future of Communication: Looking at AI through the Eyes of German Classics"

If language is the "house of our being," as Martin Heidegger once asserted, then artificial intelligence has undoubtedly broken into that house. Who, then, is the speaker in AI-generated texts? According to whose principles and values are these texts generated? AI is forcing society to confront longstanding questions that have been neglected because of their complexity. There should be less talk about how to reliably instill values in technology and more reflection on what those values should be.  The lecture will approach this issue using several German classics.          Read more

Roberto Simanowski is an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence Temporal Communities at the Freie Universität Berlin. He holds a Ph.D. in Literary Studies and a Venia Legendi in Media Studies and has been a professor of German Studies at Brown University and Professor of Media Studies at the University of Basel and the City University of Hong Kong.