Roberto Simanowski, cultural scientist and media philosopher, lives in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin and is the author of 15 books on art, culture and politics in digital media. After holding professorships in the USA, Hong Kong and Switzerland, he is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard University and the University of Berlin. His book »Todesalgorithmus. Das Dilemma der künstlichen Intelligenz« (The Death Algorithm: The Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence) was awarded the Tractatus Prize for philosophical essay writing in 2020.
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Every technology has the power to impose its own logic on its unaware users. Are ChatGPT, Claude, Zwilling, Pi or Gemini weaning us of reading, writing and thinking? Are they persuading us to adopt views we don’t even hold? Are they disempowering us by being so eager to serve us? And are they perhaps dangerous precisely because they seem to give us everything we want? Simanowski explores these and other questions with a philosophical sense of how new technology will change the human condition.