Wagnis, Mut, Verantwortung – Vortrags- und Diskussionsreihe 2025/26

KI und Roboterethik

Anyone who has worked intensively with ChatGPT quickly realises that artificial intelligence can be a far more pleasant conversation partner than many of our fellow human beings. It won't be long before humanoid robots with voice imitation technology are given a human face. Even if this AI is ultimately only a simulation of a counterpart, it can appear to be a real counterpart to its user. From this perspective, the science fiction scenario in which a human falls in love with a machine is no longer so far-fetched. But what does this mean from a philosophical and ethical perspective? What status does a machine have that has become a personal counterpart for a human being? What rules do we need – also to prevent emotional bonds from being exploited by third parties? And what if one day AI does become conscious and becomes a subject?

Prof. Dr. Markus Gabriel
Markus Gabriel (born 1980) studied in Hagen, Bonn and Heidelberg. He was a postdoctoral researcher in Lisbon and New York, where he took up his first professorship at the New School for Social Research in 2008. Since 2009, he has held the Chair of Epistemology and Modern Philosophy at the University of Bonn, where he has been Director of the International Centre for Philosophy since 2012. In 2017, he founded the interdisciplinary Centre for Science and Thought, of which he has been director ever since. He is a regular visiting professor at the Sorbonne (Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne) and the New School for Social Research in New York City. Since 2024, he has also been Senior Global Advisor at the Kyoto Institute of Philosophy.

Philipp Krohn
Philipp Krohn is a journalist and author. After studying economics and German language and literature, he embarked on a career in journalism, first at Deutschlandfunk and, since 2008, in the business editorial department of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, where he has been writing about financial and social policy issues ever since. His work focuses on possible paths to an ecologically and economically sustainable economy. In 2023, his book ‘Ökoliberal. Warum Nachhaltigkeit die Freiheit braucht’ (Ecoliberal: Why Sustainability Needs Freedom) was published.

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