Debating Europe

They reply to our e-mails, finish our homework, support scientific research, and even write poems and plays if asked. The most recent chat bots, text-based dialogue systems like ChatGPT, already do certain things better and faster than human beings. Will one of humanity’s deepest fears now become reality as such programs threaten to make us redundant? Will they become even smarter than the smartest among us? These are the questions which Debating Europe will tackle this time around, featuring the following experts and artists.

With:

Lisz Hirn – philosopher and writer

Peter Knees – Associate Professor of Informatics, TU Wien

Helga Nowotny – Professor em. of Social Studies of Science, former President of the European Research Council

Maya Pindeus – CEO, Co-Founder at Humanising Autonomy, London

Jörg Piringer – writer, artist, and computer scientist

Chaired by: Petra Stuiber – Der Standard

The discussion will be held in German.

Tickets and more information: Europa im Diskurs – Debating Europe | Burgtheater

Debating Europe – Europa im Diskurs

This series of public morning debates brings leading politicians, scientists and intellectuals on to the stage of Vienna’s Burgtheater to discuss topical issues of political and social relevance. This long-standing event is a collaborative production of the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM), Burgtheater, ERSTE Foundation and Austrian daily Der Standard.