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The Black Box: How AI Answers Your Questions
AI assistants often provide answers in a matter of seconds, but how they make decisions is mysterious.
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Data Doppelgangers
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Data Doppelgangers
According to Silicon Valley it takes just 150 likes for Facebook to know you better than your parents or your friends.
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Is It You or AI Speaking?
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Is It You or AI Speaking?
Imagine an AI assistant that could write all your correspondence with friends and family without you lifting a finger.
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The Great Illusion: Confirmation Bias
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Could AI Develop Consciousness?
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Could AI Develop Consciousness?
Can machines develop genuine consciousness?
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Who is Responsable When AI Makes Mistakes?
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Who is Responsable When AI Makes Mistakes?
What happens when AI harms rather than helps? And even drives people to despair? Who is responsible when AI goes wrong?
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When Machines Become Gods
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When Machines Become Gods
with fewer people believing in God, is AI a deity for our times?
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AI Explained

The Great Illusion: Confirmation Bias

3 min

Available until 19/05/2026

We believe what we want to believe - even when it comes to machines. If a AI chatbot addresses us in a familiar tone, we often treat it more like a human being. How do we fool ourselves like this?

Author

Hans Block
Moritz Riesewieck

Production

Docmine
Gebrüder Beetz

Country

Switzerland
Germany

Year

2025

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