When Machines Dream the Future: Festival on Living with Artificial Intelligence

Old Ways, New CEO Angie Abdilla joined fellow authors Tyson Yunkaporta, Rick Shaw and Megan Kelleher in the panel discussion on their recently published paper ‘The Blindspots of A’I, as part of the Goethe Institute AI 3-day festival in Dresden.

The festival discusses theories and fictions as well as offering practical exercises and applications for a realistic perspective on the AI myth. Over three days, international key figures from backgrounds in AI research, science, philosophy, music, culture, literature and civil society came together in a variety of formats. They address a central question about the principles and effects of the phenomenon we now call “artificial intelligence”. The focus here is on three main aspects: firstly theories enabling a realistic understanding of AI logic and how it is rooted in society, secondly its handling concept – how it intersects with technology today and tomorrow in artists’ imagination as well as in a fiction setting, and finally work with artificial intelligence on the basis of practical training units.