Die "Imaginaries" Künstlicher Intelligenz: Die kommunikative Konstruktion von KI in China, Deutschland und der USA

• Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Christian Katzenbach
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft
• Förderung: Förderung seit 2020
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 450649594

Artificial intelligence (AI) is considered a key technology in contemporary societies, expectedto substantially change sectors as diverse as health, warfare, mobility or communication. Consequently, political andeconomic stakeholders in many countries have allocated considerable resources to AI development, and the technologyhas been the object of extensive public debates. At the same time, observers criticize these public debates for using theconcept of AI vaguely and inconsistently, for over-hyping its promise, and for oscillating between naive hopes anddystopian fears. This indicates the fundamental interpretative flexibility of broad technologies such as AI: Theirdevelopment and societal integration is contextual, shaped by political, economic and sociocultural interests, and subjectto discursive negotiations in public arenas. These public debates are crucially important. Here, the “sociotechnicalimaginaries”, i.e. the societal understandings of the possibilities, potentials and risks embedded in certain technologies,are socially constructed. These imaginaries play a large role in influencing how societies deal with emerging keytechnologies like AI.

• DFG-Verfahren: Sachbeihilfen
• Internationaler Bezug: Schweiz
• Mitverantwortlich: Dr. João Carlos Viera Magalhães
• Kooperationspartner: Professor Dr. Mike Schäfer