Colloqium #31
14 September 2024
Description
Join us in this talk for a thought-provoking exploration of AI’s transformative potential beyond its current applications. While acknowledging the challenges and justified fears surrounding AI, we’ll explore unique opportunities to address systemic issues in our society. We will touch on topics such as complexity theory, psychology, biases and organisational development in the context of AI.
Speakers
Cersten Frank: Cersten Frank is an independent coach who specializes in facilitation and organizational development. His focus is on volunteering and activism. After five years of involvement in the political climate movement, the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence led him back to his IT roots. Today, he combines his extensive experience in movements, non-violent communication, collaboration, self-organizing systems, AI and IT to drive societal improvements.
(source: https://www.zeitfenster-aachen.de/2024/04/ki-und-gesellschaftlicher-wandel)
Moderation
Auris–E. Lipinski: Auris-E. Lipinski is a studied philosophy teacher with experience in the tech industry, providing one-on-one lessons and tech-communications for companies and entrepeneurs, as well as language trainings and simultanoues translations. While studying Philosophy & English at Humboldt University, Berlin, she became a scientific assistant at VIOM GmbH. She founded PhenCoCo in the aftermath of university seminars like “Konstruktion und Phänomenologie der Wahrnehmung”, Phänomenologie und Kognition" (M. Thiering) and “Computation und Geist” (J. Bach). She has been involved in different research and development projects, guiding her academic interests towards way finding and cognitive preconditions for navigation, both computational and phenomenological. This includes working on spacial concepts found in philosophy, psychology and robotics, subsuming Gestalt theory, embodiment theories, language/ concept importance, association and intuition. Her personal interests lie a.o. in current issues in philosophy, technology, and science, specifically navigation, optimisation, and telematics.