Prof. Dr. Christian Stöcker is head of the "Digital Communication" course at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. Previously, he was head of the Net World department at SPIEGEL ONLINE. As an expert on digital public issues, he advised the Bundestag, the Enquete Commission "Artificial Intelligence - Social Responsibility and Economic, Social and Ecological Potential", and the Thuringian state parliament, among others.
In 2010, he received the Prize for Science Journalism and Science Communication of the German Psychological Society. In the fall of 2020, his most recent book "Das Experiment sind wir" (The Experiment is Us) was published about the so-called "Great Acceleration", which has been changing the world ever faster since the 1960s.
Artificial intelligence and climate crisis
Digital technology and the progressive destruction of the human living environment have something in common: both are phenomena characterized by exponential, i.e. accelerated, change processes. Artificial intelligence or, more precisely, machine learning is the latest and probably most powerful line of development in digitization - but how can it be used meaningfully in the service of sustainable developments?