Philipp Weber - AI: Artificial Idiots!

Homo digitalis and his analog apes

Yesterday is today's tomorrow, right. But how quickly does today become yesterday's tomorrow? Digitalization, genetic engineering, artificial intelligence: mankind is hurtling into the future. Yet instead of looking forward, everyone stares at their smartphones. Homo digitalis bends so low that he'll soon forget how to walk upright. Terrifying! For years the Stasi bugged Uncle Heinz in his apartment, and today he buys Alexa himself. Are machines replacing humans - or liberating them? Is the "end of work" coming? Great, finally we'll have time for something meaningful! But when has mankind ever done something meaningful just because they had time for it? Or are we already robots dreaming of being human? Paranoid humanoid!

What happened to the promises of the future? Where is clean fusion energy, the time machine, downloadable beer? We're flying to Mars soon, fantastic! Only, what do we want there? It's a dull, empty, and terribly boring place. For humanity to land on such a planet, we'll soon not need to take a single step. As an analog ape, one really wants to shout from one's tree: "Oh God, human! Where are you actually going?"

But there is hope! In the future, someone is waiting for you: Philipp Weber. With his program "AI: Artificial Idiots!" he has become a prophet. He is already considered the cabaret reincarnation of the Oracle of Delphi - only even funnier. Where fortune tellers only see darkness, Philipp Weber makes you laugh fearlessly. Because the most important tool for everything to come was, is, and will always be: humor!