Workshop Political Hope Vol. 1

In this upcoming workshop on June 28-30, 2023, we aim to explore the interdependency and relations between hope, technological innovations and digital transformations.

New technological developments, such as artificial intelligence (AI), offer hopeful and promising prospects for the future across various application areas. Images of hope, for example, in the medical context for a more precise and individualized health care, as well as dystopian images of total surveillance, for instance, are associated with AI-driven applications.

How future perspectives are drawn and discussed in relation to emerging technologies is a decisive factor for policy-making and public discussion. Whether and how hope can be politically stirred up or prevented, whether and how technologies contribute at all to hopeful or hopeless future perspectives, but also to what extent political hopes may reasonably be associated with technologies, will be reflected upon from different perspectives in a first workshop on “Political Hope, Technology & Digital Transformation”.