EAN: 9781509548811

IN AI WE TRUST - HELGA NOWOTNY GEBUNDEN

One of the most persistent concerns about the future is whether it will be dominated by the
predictive algorithms of AI - and  if so  what this will mean for our behaviour  for our
institutions and for what it means to be human. AI changes our experience of time and the
future and challenges our identities  yet we are blinded by its efficiency and fail to
understand how it affects us. At the heart of our trust in AI lies a paradox: we leverage AI to
increase our control over the future and uncertainty  while at the same time the performativity
of AI  the power it has to make us act in the ways it predicts  reduces our agency over the
future. This happens when we forget that that we humans have created the digital technologies
to which we attribute agency. These developments also challenge the narrative of progress 
which played such a central role in modernity and is based on the hubris of total control. We
are now moving into an era where this control is limited as AI monitors our actions  posing the
threat of surveillance  but also offering the opportunity to reappropriate control and
transform it into care. As we try to adjust to a world in which algorithms  robots and avatars
play an ever-increasing role  we need to understand better the limitations of AI and how their
predictions affect our agency  while at the same time having the courage to embrace the
uncertainty of the future.

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