‘Interaction Between Natural and Artificial Intelligence’ Symposium

Faced with progressive digitalisation, how will people, animals and plants live together with machines in the future? How will the interaction between natural and artificial intelligence evolve? Is it even possible to measure the scope and intensity of the new synergies?
The commission ‘Synergy and intelligence: technical, ethical and legal challenges of interaction between living and non-living entities in an age of digitalisation (SYnENZ)’ at Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (BWG) is investigating the forms of cohabitation that emerge from digital developments. The groups considers not only new types of communication and interaction between humans, but also of cooperation between humans and other living or non-living entities. These interactions are associated with fundamental legal, ethical and anthropological issues, that will be presented and discussed during this first BWG Symposium.

Three areas of responsibility will be elucidated:
• Individuality and collectivity: will intensified communication and extended use of assistance systems lead to stronger cooperation and interdependence between individuals or collectives?
• Individualisation and standardisation: in addition to beneficial influences, does the extended interaction also present inherent risks of standardisation in human behaviour and personal development?
• Autonomy and accountability: what are the consequences for autonomous human decision-making, as well as for legal and moral accountability?

The significant complexity of these broad thematic fields will be addressed in three application areas: 1. in medicine and healthcare; 2. in physical and virtual forms of mobility; and 3. in the cooperation with livestock and plants within agriculture. The event will also address methodical-technical aspects, e.g. the interaction between human and machine intelligence, as well as collaboration by means of swarm intelligence.

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Kontakt: info@synenz.de