Digital Salon
Florian Rötzer in conversation with Catrin Misselhorn
Fri, May 28, 2021 6:00 pm CEST
- Location
- Online
- Language
- German
Emotional artificial intelligence is considered a key technology of the future. Artificial systems are supposed to be compassionate and trigger empathy in us. But how do artificial systems recognize and process human emotions? Can they feel real emotions and empathy? Does the development of pain-sensitive robots in biorobotics lead to the dissolution of the boundary towards biological organisms? Do we also have moral obligations to robots that stir our compassion?
Guest in the Digital Salon is Prof. Dr. Catrin Misselhorn, who teaches philosophy at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. She is currently researching philosophical problems of artificial intelligence, robot and machine ethics, integrative philosophy of science, art and technology, ethical evaluation of technologies (ELSI) and empathy in ethical, aesthetic and technical contexts. The conversation will focus on how humans interact with intelligent and autonomous systems and how they interact with humans. Catrin Misselhorn most recently published the book »Künstliche Intelligenz und Empathie. Vom Leben mit Emotionserkennung, Sexroboter & Co«. There she discusses the ethical and technical aspects using vivid examples from practice and gives an overview of new trends in emotional artificial intelligence, social robotics and biorobotics.
The event will be held in German.
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In the 18th century, intellectuals met in salons hosted by women to present their ideas, let their wit shine, engage with other intellectuals regardless of the barriers of class and gender, and engage in erudite conviviality. Salons were partly public events in private rooms, to which the »celebrities« acting on stage - from literature, philosophy, natural sciences and politics - were invited together with the audience. The salons of the Enlightenment found their continuation in the format of TV talk shows, with their disputes driven by the media's need for attention.
In the Digital Salon, on the other hand, we want to once again cultivate a quiet culture of conversation that takes its time, has no particular goal, and strolls discursively with the respective guest. Topics include, for example, the role and self-description as intellectuals, the thoughts that are timely, the change in attention and publicity through the digital lifeworld, political visions of the future, and »what needs to be done«.