[DE] Intelligenz & Phantasie – mit Thomas Raab

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Fungi live alongside people in particular places, and sometimes make it possible for people to live there at all, yet these relationships are barely documented. Documenting them is also overshadowed by the colonial capitalisation of relationships between people and other species. As a result, there can seem to be no way to record these relationships and protect them before they are lost. Field mycologist and fungal activist Giuliana Furci, founder and director of the Fungi Foundation, the world's first NGO dedicated to fungal conservation, describes how the foundation freed itself from this paralysis and designed a way forward for continuing to live with fungi, in place. Furci is an associate at Harvard University and a National Geographic Explorer, and co-authored the publications that defined the term "funga" and proposed the 3F framework of Fauna, Flora & Funga.Undisciplined Intelligence is a podcast series produced by the Technopolitics working group that engages with guests from different disciplines to discuss how the notion of intelligence has changed in the age of AI. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/Credits Intro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Gerald Nestler / Guest: Giuliana Furci Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Der Hype um KI verlangt nach einer speziesübergreifenden Definition von Intelligenz und nach der Anerkennung intelligenter Eigenschaften von Akteuren, die traditionell aus dem Intelligenzraster gefallen sind. Besonders Pflanzen, lange als unbeweglich, reaktiv und „niedrig“ wahrgenommen, erfahren in westlichen Wissenschaften und (Agrar-)Kulturen neue Aufmerksamkeit, während ihre Ausbeutung durch neue Technologien zugleich zunimmt. Pflanzen kommunizieren, treffen Entscheidungen, passen sich an ihre Umwelt an und verändern sie. Damit entsprechen sie gängigen Definitionen von Intelligenz. Die Kunsttheoretikerin Yvonne Volkart (HGK Basel FHNW, ZHdK) erläutert ausgehend von ihrem SNF-Forschungsprojekt „Plants_Intelligence. Learning Like a Plant“ (2022–25), worin sich Pflanzenintelligenz von KI unterscheidet und welche Möglichkeiten Kunst und ästhetische Praktiken eröffnen. Diskutiert wird auch, ob es politisch relevant ist, den Intelligenzbegriff auf bisher vernachlässigte Sphären auszudehnen, oder ob das im Gegenteil zu seiner Überbewertung beiträgt.Undisciplined Intelligence ist eine Podcastreihe der Arbeitsgruppe Technopolitics, in der Gäste aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen diskutieren, wie sich der Begriff der Intelligenz im Zeitalter der KI verändert hat. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/ CreditsIntro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Felix Stalder / Guest: Yvonne Volkart / gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!How can statistical prediction systems become part of artistic practice, both shaping and unsettling the conditions of creation? S()fia Braga, an Italian transmedia artist based in Vienna, has worked with machine learning since its early cultural adoption, developing AI-mediated moving-image workflows that create speculative fabulations about human–non-human collaboration. In this episode she reflects on how agency is negotiated between human intention and machine process. She also explains how artistic control can be sustained through custom open-source workflows and self-managed infrastructure, which make possible a more critical engagement with the material conditions of AI. The conversation also touches on her concepts of Platform Workshipping and Interveillance, which analyse power and labour within centralised social media infrastructures. Braga's work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Belvedere 21 and the 19th Venice Architecture Biennale, among others.Undisciplined Intelligence is a podcast series produced by the Technopolitics working group that engages with guests from different disciplines to discuss how the notion of intelligence has changed in the age of AI. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/CreditsIntro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Axel Stockburger / Guest: S()fia Braga Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!What happens to people when technology reshapes the economy faster than they can adapt? Economist Ljubica Nedelkoska, a faculty member at the Complexity Science Hub, visiting Professor at the Central European University and co-director of its Growth CoLab, studies how technology affects labour markets, skills and migration. In this episode she discusses the forces transforming work, such as automation, and how people adjust when their old skills are no longer needed. Drawing on a decade of research and policy work in Albania, Colombia, Sri Lanka, Germany and elsewhere, she combines data science with human-centred storytelling to ask who benefits when machines become intelligent and what happens to careers when skills become obsolete. The conversation also asks whether migration can be a form of innovation and what a truly adaptable economy might look like.Undisciplined Intelligence is a podcast series produced by the Technopolitics working group that engages with guests from different disciplines to discuss how the notion of intelligence has changed in the age of AI. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/ Credits Intro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Gerald Straub / Guest: Ljubica Nedelkoska Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Innovation, also die Fähigkeit, neuartige Lösungen für unbekannte Probleme zu finden, ist ein zentrales Merkmal kognitiver Flexibilität und entscheidend, um die technologische Entwicklung des Menschen zu verstehen. Die Kognitionsbiologin Alice Auersperg leitet seit 2011 das Goffin Lab of Comparative Cognition an der Veterinärmedizinischen Universität Wien und erforscht die Evolution der Intelligenz bei Vögeln. Im Gespräch geht sie der Frage nach, wie Erfindergeist bei unterschiedlichen Arten entsteht, mit Beispielen aus ihrer Forschung mit Papageien, Primaten und Kindern. Diese reichen von innovativer Nahrungssuche über mehrstufiges Problemlösen bis zu Werkzeuggebrauch und Werkzeugherstellung. Dabei zeigt sich, wie Literaturstudien, Freilandbeobachtungen und kontrollierte Experimente gemeinsam neue Perspektiven auf Tiere, Menschen und Maschinen eröffnen. Ihr Buch „Der Erfindergeist der Tiere“ ist 2025 im Brandstätter Verlag erschienen.Undisciplined Intelligence ist eine Podcastreihe der Arbeitsgruppe Technopolitics, in der Gäste aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen diskutieren, wie sich der Begriff der Intelligenz im Zeitalter der KI verändert hat. Undisciplined Intelligence is a podcast series produced by the Technopolitics working group that engages with guests from different disciplines to discuss how the notion of intelligence has changed in the age of AI. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/CreditsIntro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Felix Stalder / Interview: Thomas Thaler / Guest: Alice Auersperg / gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Data colonialism names the latest wave of measuring, datafying and quantifying society. Like territorial imperialism, it has an economic core: everything becomes a resource, above all data about our behaviour, from which a few extract enormous profits. With AI, these "weapons of math destruction" now target thinking itself, including creative production, composition and authorship. Anna Echterhölter shows that the history of data leads straight to the colonies: the first centres of calculation served early modern empires, and the first traces of today's AI appear in Cold War intelligence services rather than in sociology seminars. Data colonialism also overwrites whole types of knowledge, since anything that cannot be quantified or was never documented is lost, and colonial epistemicides multiply. The conversation then turns to alternatives: decolonial uses of data, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, the Environmental Data Justice Lab and data feminism. Anna Echterhölter is Professor of History of Science at the University of Vienna, co-editor of Science in Context, and researches the history of quantification, epistemic decolonisation and the sciences of German colonialism in Oceania.Undisciplined Intelligence is a podcast series produced by the Technopolitics working group that engages with guests from different disciplines to discuss how the notion of intelligence has changed in the age of AI. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/Credits Intro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Emma Dowling / Guest: Anna Echterhölter Funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Housing, Arts, Culture, Media and Sport

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode!Betrachtet man generative KI von ihrer technischen Seite, zeigt sich Interessanteres als die Science Fiction der Futurologinnen und Mahnerinnen. Wie jedes Programm beruht sie auf einem stark idealisierten Problem: Bei Chatbots ist das die Erzeugung von Zeichenketten, die Nutzer*innen als sinnvoll deuten, ermöglicht durch Rechenleistung, Stromverbrauch, riesige Datenmengen und Statistik. Sprache wird dabei zum Korpus aller dokumentierten Äußerungen verkürzt. Möglich ist das nur, weil bürokratische Verwaltung die Daten längst aufbereitet hat. KI löst ein menschengemachtes, karikaturhaftes Problem. Dem setzt Thomas Raab ein psychologisches Verständnis von Intelligenz entgegen: nicht als Problemlösung, sondern als kreatives Suchen und Finden von Problemen, gestützt auf Erinnerung, Denken, Phantasie und eine sozial eingebettete Lebensgeschichte. Thomas Raab ist Schriftsteller und Kognitionsforscher; seine Essays zum Thema sind 2025 unter dem Titel „Intelligenz & Phantasie“ im Parodos Verlag erschienen.Undisciplined Intelligence ist eine Podcastreihe der Arbeitsgruppe Technopolitics, in der Gäste aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen diskutieren, wie sich der Begriff der Intelligenz im Zeitalter der KI verändert hat. https://www.technopolitics.info/podcast/ Credits Intro & Mastering: Volkmar Klien / Editing & Sound Production: Thomas Thaler / Graphic & Webdesign: Sylvia Eckermann / Host: Emma Dowling / Guest: Thomas Raab / gefördert vom Bundesministerium für Wohnen, Kunst, Kultur, Medien und Sport