29 September 2026, 1-5pm

Online via Zoom

This workshop imagines and explores dystopian AI futures through the lens of their potential present precursors. It focuses primarily on concrete, near-term risks rather than vague long-term scenarios, asking which current developments already cause harm and point in dangerous directions – and which preventive practices could counter them. The workshop is motivated by the conviction that securing a positive impact of powerful AI-tools requires careful and strategic collective decision-making in the common interest. Thus, the workshop will present and challenge both empirically informed contributions on risks, harms and actual governance gaps, as well as realistic strategies of mitigation, increasing safety, democratic control and, if necessary, resistance.

• 13:00-13:15  – Introduction and Opening Remarks
• 13:15–14:00 – Reza Mosayebi (University Witten/Herdecke): Generative AI, Non-Racism, and Anti-Racism
• 14:05–14:50 – Norbert Paulo (KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt):  The Limits of Foresight. Uncertainty and the Role of Narratives in AI Risk Assessment
• ​14:50–15:00 – Break
• 15:00–15:45 – Luise Müller (FU Berlin): AI Agents and the Hard Problem of Moral Normativity
• 15:50–16:30 – General Discussion and Closing Remarks

To join the workshop, please follow this link:  https://rwth.zoom-x.de/j/68782938772