Eine Ringvorlesung des Instituts für Theaterwissenschaft der Freien Universität Berlin

A.I. Ambiguous Intelligence – Per/Forming Critique

• Prof. Dr. Florian Conradi
  Institut für Theaterwissenschaft,
  metaLAB (at) Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin
  Dieser Beitrag findet in englischer Sprache statt.

We find ourselves currently observing how hidden biases are being reinforced by AI systems, dominating the internet with perceptions and probabilities. As AI infiltrates everyday life, its systems increasingly determine human knowledge and behaviours. Search engine queries, autocomplete, autocorrect, personalised aides, and chatbots mediate our every uncertainty and apparently ‘solve’ our problems. Yet, these processes have worrying consequences. Who gets to make the narratives of AI? Who suffers the consequences of its immense analysis? What alternative pathways of AI can and have to be formulated, performed, and practised to allow visions of ‘alternat(iv)e intelligences’ to counter current power structures within the co-habitation of coded lifeworlds?

In this talk, urgencies are reflected on, and alternat(iv)e approaches are exemplified through interdisciplinary outcomes of research projects and seminars, with the aim of moving towards a collective stance that surpasses the boundaries of human/machine, offline/online, and real/unreal. Critical artistic design as performative practice might provide one methodology to enable this debate, producing counter-narratives that incite a more inclusive discourse on visions of AI. More ambiguity, more fluidity. Hopefully.