The new, faithful helper of a much-frightened humanity goes by the abbreviation AI. Entire years of robotics seem to be contained in the appearance of this monogram. You can feel the whistling and squeaking of the Star-Wars-Tin can R2-D2 canceled in the two letters. If Theodor W. Adorno, known to be the strictest cultural critic of modern German-speaking times, came across the term AI, he would subsequently fall under all the clouds of disillusionment. For him, no other definition of the abbreviation would be conceivable than that of “culture industry”. Because of artificial intelligence.
