A forum on artificial intelligence and its role in the future of humankind was held at the Madlena Art Palace on Friday, 24 November 2023. The discussion was organized on the occasion of publication of the book The Age of AI: And Our Human Future by the recently departed professor of law and diplomat Henry Kissinger which he had written together with Eric Emerson Schmidt, former general manager of Google.
The topic was treated by professor Dr. Nataša Pržulj from the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies who is a leader in the area of artificial intelligence, professor and psychologist Petar Jevremović, engineer of organizational sciences and writer of the book “Između 2 sveta” (“Between Two Worlds”) Branislav Vujović, writer and translator Bojan Savić Ostojić, as well as publicist and diplomat Dragan Bisenić. The debate was moderated by the writer and musician Vladimir Đurić- Đura.
Following the introductory speech about Henty Kissinger and his idea of the notion of artificial intelligence in the future given by Dragan Bisenić, we learned about the author’s pessimistic positions and gloomy forecasts of the 21th century reality where robots and machines will be multiplying themselves rather than being manufactured by humans.
Master of organizational sciences Branislav Vujović – expert for digital era asked what was happening to us and stated that the humankind does not understand the digital world sufficiently. He further quoted Giannis Varoufakis (renowned economist and former Greek Minister of Finance), who claims that capitalism will not succumb to socialism, but to techno-feudalism. Vujović emphasizes that major platforms will gain total power of the planet – power and the market, with artificial intelligence as but one of technologies used.
The further discussion was joined by prof. Dr Nataša Pržulj who has been in the area of artificial intelligence for a long time, more exactly in the area of application of AI in medicine for the purpose of studying human cells and the organism. According to her research, use of artificial intelligence will prolong human life to at least 120 years of age.
