AI

Tool, mirror, imposition. What machines can do, and why they still need us.

Sascha Schulz: Portrait in a dark jacket
  • Collage illustration: a machine-like coach with a clipboard stands at the sideline while a human player in rust red runs across the pitch with the ball.

    Who Thinks When the Machine Thinks?

    AI can raise the level of almost any piece of work. The catch: whoever stops thinking for themselves loses the very skill needed to check the machine.

  • Screenprint collage: a typewriter whose paper ribbon curls into a smile, a gold spark above

    The Machine Told a Joke

    Software now writes jokes that strangers rate funnier than most people’s. What it cannot do is decide whether this is the moment for one.

  • Screenprint collage: a gramophone horn sending out a sound wave held by a gold padlock

    Who Owns Your Voice?

    A few seconds of audio can now become a voice that says anything. On three continents, the law’s answer is converging on one word: consent.