“Information only becomes knowledge through people.”
Artificial intelligence writes poetry, analyzes data, and creates strategies. Knowledge seems to be available at any time, and answers appear plausible, professional, and convincing. But what if we confuse information with knowledge? What if efficiency becomes ideology? What if we begin to see machines not as tools, but as entities that we blindly follow? The exciting question is not what AI can do, but what we unlearn when we stop thinking for ourselves.
“Machines recognize patterns. People recognize meaning.”
Wolf Lotter, publicist and thought leader in the knowledge economy, places the current AI debate in a historical and economic context. He distinguishes between digitalization as a tool and “digitalism” as an ideology. For him, AI is not a disruption, but the logical continuation of automation. In conversation with Georgiy Michailov, they discuss the productivity paradox of digitalization, debates about working from home, political inability to reform, and why attention has become a commodity.
*Video only in German
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