Meeting KI-Postdocs: ‘An optimistic view on the merging with AI?'

"On Self- building technologies"
(Dr. Charlotte Gauvry)

The recent literature has convincingly demonstrated certain perverse effects of what has been called the “merging with AI.” Susan Schneider (2019) even argued that different merging techniques, for example the implantation of silicon chips in our brains, could lead to a dissolution of our selfhood. In my talk, I propose to discuss this hypothesis based on a recent provocative article by François Kammerer, which considers, on the contrary, the possibility of "self-building technologies:"artificial technologies (paradigmatically some digital app) would actually allow us to “strengthen our selfhood.”