In 1982 the creators of Bladerunner imagined a 2019 Los Angeles with robots that are indistinguishable from humans, but without smartphones. Decker goes to a payphone to make a call. The StarTrek universe is full of omniscient computers, but is set in a perfect egalitarian society. Our real future turned out to be somewhere in between. Our digitalisation had been swift, opportunistic, and invisible. We live digitally augmented lives that generate a lot of digital data. In parallel, computational power and artificial intelligent methods have also developed and can process that data in new ways. These two forces are slowly reconfiguring the rights and power within the society.
The talk critically explores the power of AI as it stands today and the ethical impact it has on academic society and individuals.
