NSFW

This week's song is perfect to be heard while sitting in a well air-conditioned train crossing the summer landscape: Coline Rio, Paysage:

YouTube has a nice and very reduced live-version with a very dominant guitar as well:

Her YouTube-channel and her Insta are full with nice melodies to hear during a cruise or a very early morning run when the heat is not that brutal yet.

Retrospect

Wiener Wissen

The video-

and the audio-podcast

Forgó: „Spielen einfach nicht in der ersten Liga“

Künstliche Intelligenz verändert die Welt rasanter als jede Technologie zuvor. Doch während Europa stark hinterherhinkt, sitzen die mächtigsten…

Krone.atkrone.at

of my first ever prenece in KroneTV are online now. It's about digital souvreignty, AI and Europe.

One of the issues not mentioned there by Dr. Katja Mayer and me - but should have been said - are the energy and environmental costs of this hype. May I warmly recommend a long read on this.

"Google’s power consumption isn’t just growing – the rate at which it is growing is growing. We have a word for this: exponential growth."

#arsboni

Dr. Rumman Chowdhury spoke about her experiences with Twitter, on Red Teaming, Responsibility and Thinking About Thinking when it comes to AI .

Rummann held a nice TED-talk in 2024 that helped me in preparing for the interview.

The Vienna Legal Literacy Project did 2 episodes, one on drugs and one on data protection (with yours truly),

On Thursday I had a very inspiring conversation with Quint Haidar Aly from ACCICE - “Access to Justice”. The reason for the interview was a very remarkable text on German legal education in LTO.

Aly has also published the relevant document on his LinkedIn.

Personal Assistants

I gave an ORF-interview on the bizarre story of a father who was arrested for having planned the assassination of his son with ChatGPT.

The story will be (hopefully) aired in the next days to come. The plot reminded me of the last episode of Wunderpanik.

HAPPY WUNDERPANIK

Ein Jahr Wunderpanik und zum ersten Mal sitzen Katha und Melanie dabei tatsächlich im selben Raum. Zwischen Meyers Lexikon als Mikrofonständer, wackligem WLAN, einem Glas Wein und zwei Menschen, die seit zwölf Monaten versuchen, den digitalen Wahnsinn in Worte zu fassen. Was kann da schon schiefgehen? In unserer Geburtstagsfolge graben wir die Momente aus, die uns bis heute nicht loslassen: Die Videos, die unsere Realität verbogen haben. Die KI, die plötzlich Therapeutin, Freundin oder Lebensberater wurde. Die absurden Reddit-Experimente und Agenten-Hypes. Ein Jahr Wunderpanik, das war ein Jahr Staunen, Zweifeln, Lachen, Diskutieren und manchmal auch kollektives „Das kann doch jetzt nicht euer Ernst sein?!“, allein und mit unseren tollen Gästen! 🥳 Darum geht’s in dieser Folge: 🎂 Unser erstes Podcast-Jahr und die erste gemeinsame Aufnahme in einem Raum 🎥 Der Veo-Moment: Als KI-Videos plötzlich zu echt wurden 🕵️ Deepfakes, Schockanrufe und die Frage: Was können wir überhaupt noch glauben? 🐔 Das legendäre 73-Kilo-Hähnchen und was es über KI verrät 💔 Warum Millionen Menschen inzwischen mit KI über ihre Gefühle sprechen 🤖 KI als Therapeut, Begleiter und digitaler Seelentröster 🦞 Agenten-Hype, Rent-a-Human und andere Tech-Fieberträume ⚔️ Claude vs. ChatGPT: Der erste große KI-Glaubenskrieg? 👓 Im Auge der KI mit der Meta-Brille 🍷 Ein ehrlicher Blick zurück auf zwölf Monate zwischen Wunder und Panik

WUNDERPANIKKatharina Mager-Micijevic, Melanie Hölting-Eckert

Here I learned about the funny - yet bizarre - experiences users made and reported on Reddit when asking ChatGPT on how to get rid of a "73kg dead chicken".

Here's one example:

Ironically, there's even a video with Sam Altmann on Reddit in which he asks that ChatsGPT should be somehow privleged like a theraopist or a priest as people start sharing their darkest secrets with the machine.

Prospect

Summer Discourse

UNIVIE's Sommerhochschule in Strobl/Wolfgangsee is going to start soon and the summer discourse will be - again - a programme-highlight. You may expect an extraordinary line up of speakers, a bunch of the brightest studentsone might imagine, a relaxed, friendly, open and curious atmoshere and a meeting venue 20 meters away from lake St. Wolfgang - one of Austria's - or the world's? - most beautiful landscapes.

I am - somehow - responsible for Friday morning again and very much looking forward to this:

#arsboni

I will be in Hannover next week, to see old friends and colleagues. This is why I will stream an arsboni-episode with the former head of Lower-Saxony's data protection authority, Barbara Thield, on Wednesday, Juky 8th at 17.00 CET.

Look and Feel

Ernst Molden & Ursula Strauss

Molden and Strauss gave a very nice concert in Theater im Park as a preview of their third album "nochdvegl" that will be released in autumn and officially presented in Konzerthaus on September 30th.

As Molden rightly mentioned, the venue is one of the nicest places to be in summer.

It was funny to see that both performed barefoot.

The support act was new to me, Gravögel. They performed, inter alia, a protest song against the planned building of a street in Lower Austria, S:34. The song is available on Facebook.

Molden and Straus did a similar concert in May already, and here's a good quality recording from then.

Ivan Krastev

Armin Wolf interviewed Ivan Krastev for "Im Gespräch".

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The original (English) version is on YouTube

Wolf has transcript on his personal website. It's interesting to see how AI becomes more important in his thinking - and it's as always - a highly inspiring series of analogies, reflections and insights.

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann would have become 100 years old on June 25th. This is a reason for an avalanche of new books on her and her work. I joined the party (late, I know) after a visit at Buchhandlung Riedl with a book written by Fleur Jaeggy.

One can read this in (literally) 20 minutes, it's a dense and personal memory full with hints and omissions. Deutschlandfunk has more on the book (including an Instagram Reel).

I remember "Das 30. Jahr" (and, later, Malina) in my late 20ies to be a reading experience so dense that it was almost physically painful.

Soccer

OE1 has a wonderful feature about the history of women's soccer in Austria. One can learn there how long it was illegal for women to play, how sexist commentaries were even after the ban's end and how successful, despite all odds, Austria's national team has been.

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Have a wonderful week and take care of yourself!

Kind regards

Nikolaus (Forgó)