Künstliche Intelligenz - Wahrnehmung, Ethik und unsere Chance | Birte Platow | TEDxDresden

The transcript discusses the myth of Epimetheus and Prometheus to explore humanity's relationship with technology, particularly Artificial Intelligence. Prometheus, who gifted fire to humans, symbolizes progress and technological advancement, enabling control over nature, cooking, tool-making, and even powering engines. Fire represents life, power, and enabling human development. Epimetheus, meaning "one who thinks later," was tasked with distributing talents to living beings but squandered them due to his impulsiveness, leaving humanity deficient. This deficiency is presented as the reason Prometheus stole fire, providing humans with a means to overcome their limitations. The narrative suggests that at the core of innovation lies the recognition of our shortcomings and needs. The speaker then uses a thought experiment involving a dermatologist and an AI diagnosing a mole to illustrate how AI's superior data processing can lead to feelings of inferiority in humans. The AI's ability to analyze vast amounts of data surpasses human capacity, prompting a comparison of speed, precision, and data access. This comparison can unconsciously diminish self-confidence, even in small interactions. The text highlights that humans are social beings who establish norms through shared assessments and behaviors. The increasing acceptance of AI's outputs as superior to human work could be creating new norms. Furthermore, AI learns from data, including our state of mind, potentially amplifying our perceptions of ourselves in relation to AI. While some feel empowered by AI, viewing it as a tool, the speaker notes a lack of an in-between state, leading to extremes of feeling either superior or inferior. AI is often depicted as a blessing or a curse, a new beginning, or an optimizing fusion. The speaker emphasizes that AI is not just another tool; it deeply affects us, influencing our self-perception and activating core human characteristics like imagination and the ability to transcend the present moment. Finally, the transcript calls for further education and an ethically reflective approach to AI. It suggests embracing our mistakes as freedom, our slowness as strength, and our limitations as opportunities for creativity, thereby elevating the "anti-hero" Epimetheus to a heroic status.