AI – heaven or hell?

PPE Forum examines artificial intelligence from philosophical, technological, linguistic, and social science perspectives.

Artificial intelligence is shaping an ever-growing number of areas in our society, but how should we really understand this technology?

Is it primarily an innovation comparable to the typewriter, the internet, and the pocket calculator, or does it represent something fundamentally new in human history?

In this panel discussion, we explore artificial intelligence from philosophical, technological, linguistic, and social science perspectives.

Through which lens should we view its development: innovation, working life, power relations, or perhaps colonial structures?
Is artificial intelligence a tool that can free people from monotonous work, or does it contribute to greater alienation and new forms of control?
And how realistic is the idea that we are creating an intelligence capable of surpassing us?
Drawing on a range of academic approaches, the panel invites discussion about the opportunities, challenges, and consequences of a technology that is already shaping the future.

Panelists:
Tom Ryen, Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Ståle Gundersen, Associate Professor of Philosophy
Helle Sjøvaag, Professor of Journalism
David Natvig, Professor of Nordic Linguistics

PPE Forum is the current affairs forum for the one-year program in Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE) at the University of Stavanger. Panel discussions are held regularly and released as podcasts.