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Instructors: Prof. Dr. Jan Söffner
Event type:
Seminar
Org-unit: Transformation Management in Digital Societies
Displayed in timetable as:
Künstliche Intellig.
Hours per week:
3
Credits:
6,0
Location:
Campus der Zeppelin Universität
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
5 | 24
Priority scheme: Standard-Priorisierung
Course content:
"Many monsters dwell in this world, but none is more monstrous than man," thus Sophocles begins the second stasimon of his Antigone, in which the human monster is above all a political one: one that lives in law and morality, and in this respect rises above the world, thinks about it and decides about it - and no longer merely lives in it. This intelligence of the "about", the conscious rationality also transformed man into the first monster after which an earth age could be named - the "Anthropocene", which denominates the transformation of the planet by a single species. But what happens when intelligence emancipates itself from the conditionality (and limitedness) of human thought? What if consciousness were no longer the central organ of rationality, indeed if man were no longer the most intelligent being on earth? Are there in the meantime greater monsters than ourselves? And how do we then relate to them? The seminar addresses this question by determining as precisely as possible what computers can and cannot do, how we interact with them, and how their existence shapes human life in the Algorithmocene.
Literature: recommended for preparatory reading:Alan turing: Computing Machinery and Intelligence (1950); Hubert Dreyfus: What Computers Can't Do (1972) und Nick Bostrom: Superintelligence (2014), Thomas Fuchs: Verteidigung des Menschen (2020).
Learning Objectives
By the end of the seminar, you will
Have gained an orientation to the question of artificial intelligences and the challenges they pose to human intelligence.
Be able to understand, discuss, and question complex theories.
Have gained insight into pressing questions and problems of the present and learned about approaches to answer and address them.
Examination Credits:
Midterm and Final (Midterm: Participation in forum, discussion, and development of a term paper topic - the term paper itself is Endterm).
Further information about the examination performances:
Midterm 10%, Endterm 90%.
Further information about the exams:
Midterm 10 %, Endterm 90 %
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