Die Militarisierung der sozialen Medien - Big Data, Krieg und Künstliche Intelligenz

/ zeitraumexit @ T6/18 / Lecture / german / 16+ yrs / 

Big tech shapes our everyday civilian lives as well as hyperwars. Their “intelligent” systems “learn” from our social media posts to calculate abstract dangers and prevent them pre-emptively. The use of these media technologies leads to the death of civilians in Gaza, the deprivation of liberty of innocent citizens and presents society with new cultural and ethical challenges.

Christian Heck, Academy of Media Arts Cologne:
Current hybrid warfare practices affect civilian, public and media spaces, as well as our informational and communication spaces. These practices blur the legal and moral boundaries between war and peace. Disinformation and propaganda campaigns, the targeted interference of big tech monopolies in political processes, and AI-supported targeting processes to track down the 'unknown known' (as D. Rumsfeld defined it) are just some of the challenges we face. Many of these techniques have equal roots in security, military and big data logics. This also applies to the data-driven language technologies of our time. Over the past year and a half, chatbot-like interfaces such as ChatGPT have introduced entirely new forms of 'artificiality', through which 'intelligent' systems impact civil society. We are just beginning to learn the consequences to understand. In warfare, AI-Chatbots become deadly weapons. They create artificial realities in which life and death are decided. This lecture explores a specific form of dehumanisation generated by such chatbots, examining resistance strategies and practices from art and cultural contexts with the aim of reclaiming digital sovereignty and the power to act as a civil society.

More Info: BG / berlinergazette.de / 7. Mai 2025
https://berlinergazette.de/de/absolutierte-praevention-big-data-ki-und-die-zukunft-als-bedrohung/

Christian Heck, since 2017 lecturer and PhD student at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne.2015 MA Univ. of the Arts Berlin, 2012 Dipl. in Media Art Academy of Fine Arts Munich. Research and work focus on protest and movement research, ethics of AI, adversarial hacking strategies, code literature, generative systems, ADM, IT security technologies, combat drones and autonomous weapons systems.