[Air-L] New tripleC article by Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski: Against the Power of Computers and the Destruction of Reason. For the Development of Human Creativity and Judgement. Remembering the Critical Intellectual Joseph Weizenbaum on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday

[Christian Fuchs]

Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski:
Against the Power of Computers and the Destruction of Reason. For the 
Development of Human Creativity and Judgement. Remembering the Critical 
Intellectual Joseph Weizenbaum on the Occasion of his 100th Birthday
tripleC 21 (2): 140-146
DOI: https://doi.org/10.31269/triplec.v21i2.1479

Abstract
This article is a reflection on the relevance of Joseph Weizenbaum’s 
ethics today on the occasion of his 100th birthday. Today, there are 
many debates about the impact of AI technologies such as ChatGPT on 
society. Weizenbaum understood himself not as a computer and AI critic, 
but as a critic of society. He situated the problems of computing in the 
context of society. The paper shows that in the spirit of Weizenbaum we 
should also in the contemporary age of advanced AI remind ourselves that 
computers cannot understand, do not have feelings, and therefore cannot 
do many things that humans actively and consciously do.

Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski is a German computer scientist and philosopher of 
science. He was a Professor of Information Processing at Humboldt 
University in Berlin. In 2022, he was awarded the Wiener-Schmidt-Price 
by the German Society for Cybernetics (Deutsche Gesellschaft für 
Kybernetik).