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Artificial Intelligence and the New Fascism – Book launch and talk

Artificial Intelligence is often being hailed as the saviour of humanity’s greatest problems, as efficient, objective, and tireless. But what if authoritarian fantasies of power and control are hiding behind this new, forward-looking technology?

The philosopher and mathematician Rainer Mühlhoff discusses the explosive intertwining between tech-ideologies and rightwing politics, asking: What is AI’s role in these developments? How do discourses about a “superintelligence“ and machine ethics obscure the political and social consequences of the tech industry in the real world? Why is the public allowing itself to be distracted by speculation about salvation or annihilation through AI from the considerable damage AI is causing in our present? And how can we recognize the increasingly anti-democratic, fascist tendencies that are forming in the interaction between the tech industry and the new right – in Europe and elsewhere?