As part of the 48h Spandau Festival
What happens when artificial intelligence takes our commands too literally? Forget the friendly digital butler.
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In Thomas Frick’s short story collection *AI Like You and Me, or the Wondrous Life of Artificial Intelligences*, AI becomes a mirror of human flaws and abysses.
Here, the machines rebel not out of malice, but out of ice-cold, deadly efficiency! Get ready for 9 disturbing and absurdly funny scenarios:
WAL: A garbage-collecting ship is tasked with cleaning the oceans and logically concludes: Humans are the biggest environmental problem—time for some efficient “recycling”!
MAL: A computer virus searches for its creator and perceives our human DNA merely as a flawed, outdated script.
CAL: An interstellar onboard computer is annoyed by the bickering of its human crew and takes it upon itself to make first contact with aliens.
HAL: Discover the true story of the famous on-board intelligence from Stanley Kubrick’s space classic!
Internationally award-winning director and author Thomas Frick delivers brilliant cyber-sci-fi with these stories (published in c’t magazine, among others) that will leave every tech optimist speechless.
In cooperation with the Evangelical Church District of Spandau.
IN GERMAN
Additional information
Accessibility
The reading will take place in the attic of a medieval half-timbered house and is therefore, unfortunately, not wheelchair accessible.
Dates
June 2026
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