Artificial Intelligence

Intelligent computer systems issue medical diagnoses and give legal advice. They manage equity trading and will soon be able to drive our cars. They paint, write poetry, translate and compose. Ever more intelligent robots are working on assembly lines, greeting us in hotels, guiding us through museums, cooking our burgers and making our salads. But alongside the utopia of a brave new world of intelligent technology, there are also frightening prospects: of intelligent machines monitoring our every move, taking our jobs and eluding our control. Journalist and AI expert Manuela Lenzen shows which of our hopes and fears are realistic and which belong in the realm of science fiction. She explores what it might look like to coexist in a positive way with artificial intelligence – and how intelligent machines can teach us a lot about ourselves.