Artificial intelligence is not only transforming the production of texts, images, and stories but also the narratives through which societies understand themselves. Which worldviews does AI make visible, which does it amplify—and which disappear? This event discusses AI as a cultural technology of order that generates new forms of social reality.

With: 

• Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen, Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research
• Julia Kloiber, SUPERRR
• Prof. Dr. Genia Kostka, SCRIPTS, Freie Universität Berlin
• Jens Lubbadeh, Journalist and Science Fiction Author
• Moderation: Gesa Ufer

Other events in the series

• 5 Nov 2026, 6:30 pm, ZOiS: AI, Disinformation, and Digital Power

• 10 Nov 2026, 6:30 pm, WZB: AI, Labour, and Social Inequality

"AI, Power, and Societal Control – Between Freedom, Security, and Inequality": A series by SCRIPTS in cooperation with the Leibniz Centre for Literary and Cultural Research (ZfL), the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB), and the Centre for East European and International Studies (ZOiS), as part of Berlin Science Week.