Who is actually using whom here?

A conversation about AI, democracy, conformity and resistance with Klaus Speidel, Aaron Berman and Gerald Nestler.

Artificial intelligence is often described as a tool that we can use to suit our needs. At the same time, it is increasingly shaping the way we work, communicate, make decisions and find our way. Where does its use end – and where does our adaptation to the technology begin? What influence does AI already have on democratic processes? To what extent does it democratise access to knowledge, creativity and intellectual work? And where does it harm them?

As part of the current wall newspaper *Machines Don’t Learn to Speak*, Klaus Speidel, the mathematician Aaron Berman and the artist and researcher Gerald Nestler discuss power and scope for action when dealing with AI: the promises of democratisation, new forms of dependency and conformity – and ways of appropriating technologies without simply conforming to them.

A conversation about AI as a tool, infrastructure and social force – and about what resistance might mean in today’s technological landscape.