The latest developments in artificial intelligence are equally accompanied by enthusiasm and concerns. The journalist Janosch Delcker takes us into research in research laboratories, companies and institutions. You like to follow, because he reports lively and entertaining, describes his own, conflicting feelings and has many good suggestions ready.
For Parkinson’s sufferers or epileptics, KI can be the rescue if the brain functions can be monitored by implants and can be reacted to in good time if necessary. But the idea that our thoughts could be read out and influenced, already controlled is also scary. And it is not soothing to read what is already possible today and what is planned.
How do you keep control? And how do you meet the consequences of revolutionary technology? The author has followed the creation of the “Ai Act” up close, this laboriously achieved regulation of the European Union for regulating AI. One step in the right direction, but it is still important to be vigilant.
Delcker develops strategies out of his own dismay to detach a smartphone from the “dopamine machine”, which makes us addicted to us through many small rewards and is already strongly influencing us. And he passes passionately for the freedom of thoughts, because it is “a great good, maybe our biggest”. Barbara brass
Janosch Delcker:
The thought code
How artificial intelligence decrypted our thinking and we still keep control
Verlag Ch Beck, 206 p., € 16, –
ISBN 978-3-406-82343-5