Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the centre of the digitalisation we are currently experiencing. It is only through intelligent analysis that it is possible to do something with the data, and this analysis is provided by algorithms that work with various methods from the AI toolbox. There are great hopes and fears associated with this. The book follows a realistic perspective. Manuela Lenzen describes the basics, possibilities and limits of artificial intelligence, its most important applications and consequences that have already occurred or are imminent.