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The Promptah No. 4: “It’s Only the Beginning!”
How to keep calm and navigate through turbulent times? Some of the world’s leading thinkers offer guidance in the fourth issue of DLD’s people magazine for curious minds.
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When AI Becomes “Smarter than Its Developers”
In one of his last interviews, the late German author, filmmaker and philosopher Alexander Kluge explores Artificial Intelligence and its ability to reveal hidden truths in unexpected ways.
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AI & Philosophy: “Die Wetterkunde des Denkens”
In turbulent, fast-moving times, philosophy must become young again – not by repeating ancient thought, but by developing a new “meteorology of thinking” capable of reading the digital storms reshaping…
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Sex: Why We Live And Die for It
Going through a romantic breakup causes genuine physical pain, triggering brain activity that looks “remarkably like someone going through cocaine withdrawal.” This is one of many surprising findings that Dr.…
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How to Build a More Connected, Resilient, and Humane World
The real risk of AI may not be that it outsmarts us, but that it quietly erodes what makes human connections meaningful, as you’ll hear in this DLD26 expert panel…
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Connecting Problems, Identifying Solutions
Mozilla’s Chief Technology Officer, Raffi Krikorian, argues that we’re making a critical mistake by surrendering to a handful of tech giants. In his DLD26 conversation with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of…
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Epistemic Warfare
Mainstream economics operates on a lazy, outdated logic where cutting down a rainforest is considered a success as long as the timber yields a profit. And instead of revinventing the…
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Aenne Burda Award Ceremony 2026
Elisabeth Burda-Furtwängler presents the prestigious Aenne Burda Award for Creative Leadership to Grammy-winning artist FKA twigs in a session filled with celebration and inspiration. The award comes with a proud…
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When Humanity Looks to AI for Meaning
Millions of people today are turning to algorithms in search of answers to life’s deepest questions. In this DLD26 session, Joanna Shields, Founder and CEO of Precognition, discusses the consequences…
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The Ripple Effect
Spyware enables a new kind of silent attack on victims – one that has a profound effect on invididuals and society as a whole, as this DLD26 session makes clear.…
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Utopia Pragmatism
Merging visionary dreams with everyday functionality serves as the ultimate blueprint for sustainable architecture and the cities of tomorrow, star architect Bjarke Ingels shows in his captivating DLD26 talk. The…
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Future of Media in the Age of AI
In an age of infinite content, the media brands people already trust may become more valuable – precisely because everything else is drowning in noise. That’s a key takeaway of…
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Infinite AI
Artists Holly Herdon and Mat Dryhurst are known for their pioneering work at the intersection of art, technology and AI. In their DLD24 conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries) they share how they originally met, recording one of the earliest podcasts...
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From Blue Lion to Blue Swan
The title of this DLD Future Hub session may sound like something out of a fairy tale, but Blue Lion and Blue Swan actually refer to Bavaria’s push into supercomputing and building an AI gigafactory, as Dieter Kranzlmüller explains. “Blue Lion is...
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