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They are tiny, fast-paced and overcome every obstacle: killer robots kill a bloodbath in the university's lecture hall. A mother, especially in a video chat with her son, has to watch that even the folding seat, under which he hides, offers no protection. Later in the news of about 8300 students killed. Your offense? Maybe a shared Facebook post that has not pleased anyone or an algorithm. The story, told in a nearly three-minute film, is fiction. But she could be true. They have been around for a long time – machines that decide that people have to die.
New culture of the Gewalt
'These weapons should be banned,' says Toby Walsh in Weimar. He is a professor of artificial intelligence at the University of New South Wales, Australia, and one of the leading minds in the field. He has now left behind more than 100 NGOs and around 30,000 scientists from all over the world. They all do not want to conclude with the development of Artificial Intelligence. But they say no to a whole new culture of violence and demand that the United Nations agree on a ban on killer robots. So far, this has failed because of the resistance of Russia, the USA, Israel and Australia.
Performance of "Most Mechanics are Crooks", a collective of artists from Greece in Weimar
Worldwide challenges
People around the world are facing enormous challenges: How are digitization and globalization affecting the economy and our societies? What must we do to continue to be authors of our lives? How can we keep track of the increasingly complex world? And how do we deal with stronger right forces and a worldwide retreat into nationalisms? Questions that the Goethe Institut has now explored under the title "The route is recalculated" – in Weimar, the historic Central German city of culture, and in the context of a symposium with around 400 guests from 70 countries, including numerous experts from the fields of culture , Science, economics, journalism, media and politics.
Goethe-Institut wants to think about the future
An exclusive think tank over three days, during which you traveled from event to event, on foot or on a rental bike, made friends during coffee and lunch breaks and in the evening at the festival grounds around the E-Werk with wine and live music. Music continued to talk, laugh, dance and let itself be touched by the delicate movements with which the Taiwanese dancer Huang Yi and industrial robot KUKA circled each other.
Huang Yi and the dancing robot KUKA
Or you went to the National Theater of Weimar, where "The Circle" was shown after the novel by Dave Eggers in an opera version. Or to the Study Center of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library on the Blue Sofa, where a number of authors have discussed key issues of the symposium.
Diverse worldviews
The big questions of the future, there is no doubt about it, concern us all. However, it is very different with them in the world: in established Estonia democracy, for example, you can do everything online today, right up to marrying. Only the data that the state really needs is collected. And it means that they are well secured and accessible to the user.
In the multi-ethnic state of India with its many illiterates, however, the fear of state data collection is great. The Chinese central government, in turn, is convinced, Rogier Creemers, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Leiden in Leiden, in a short presentation, that the success of their work with the amount of data collected. They facilitate influencing the population – reward or punishment included.
Anab Jain spoke at the opening event
Autocratic Russia, however, explained renowned historian and bestselling author Timothy Snyder, is characterized by the absence of a clear idea of the future. "The problem of abolishing democracy is that there is no succession, it is a taboo in Russia, nobody knows what is coming after Putin, there is no future."
Whether the British-Indian designer and futurist Anab Jain should occur there at all? In Weimar she gave a brief explanation of why she creates future scenarios at the beginning of the symposium: so that we may set the course differently. The sheikhs, whom she has given a taste of Dubai's air-polluted air from 2025, will hopefully be more concerned about further developing their country's infrastructure.
The future has long since begun
The future, says Australian Toby Walsh, is almost here. And by 2062, machines will be smarter than humans. Volvo announce already for 2025 autonomously driving cars. There will be less traffic fatalities, you can sleep while driving, work, whatever.
In fact, life changes radically. The question is, how do we manage the changes? And who distributes the wealth that the machines generate?
Who has the power? The human or the machine?
57 percent of today's jobs are automatable, said Nicole Scoble-Williams, director of Deloitte's Future of Work Center of Excellence in Singapore in a Future of Work panel. Robots will in the future also take care of the elderly and care for the sick. They can already be partners or partners in everyday life. Machines without emotions, for which humans develop feelings. Do you have to be happy for him or to regret him?
Not everyone will win
Winners in this new world will most likely be, who knows how to learn. And the new currency is called competence – says Krish Chetty, head of research at the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. At the same time, it is to be feared that the group of dependents will increase significantly. There will not be enough work for everyone.
That does not remain without consequences. Already, according to the journalist and writer Pankaj Mishra in his contribution, we live in an age of wrath. Furious modernization losers and losers drove aimlessly into the arms of right-wing demagogues – in Hungary as well as in Italy or in Latin America. "Today, people around the world know that they are competing with people elsewhere in the world."
Beautiful new world of fluoroscopy and surveillance
For the first time in 200 years, there is a chance that the future will not improve. Even in Germany for the first time there is a declining basic trust in securing the next generations. Benjamin-Immanuel Hoff, Thuringia's Minister for Culture, Federal and European Affairs, pointed this out in his welcoming address to the opening of the Cultural Symposium. Right-wing extremists are cooking their poisonous soup on this breeding ground. They rush and slander on social networks. And they let their words follow their words. Since 1990, up to 196 people have died in Germany by right-wing violence, headlines the daily newspaper taz this weekend. The so far last is with great probability the CDU politician Walter Lübcke. He was shot dead at Wolfhagen on 2 June.
Recalculate the route
"We urgently need a global movement to regain what is called human dignity," demanded Hungarian media scholar Anna Szilágyi in Weimar. And a really well educated youth as well as courageous journalists and journalists – that has been heard again and again in these days. For all skepticism, the future can be good. We just have to get involved and get involved. All.
"So many roads to the future need some navigation", rapper Blumio sings at the end of the Weimar Cultural Symposium. Let's go with the world, let's go with it. Let's evolve – human 2.0! " (I want to connect with the world, with every country, let's go the right way before we lose everything, let's evolve as humans 2.0.)
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