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We support leaders and organizations in building the resilience required to engage in experimentation and development with artificial intelligence. Our aim is to contribute to the informed preparedness of individuals and institutions by inspiring and advancing their understanding of AI-related challenges and opportunities
WE CONTRIBUTE TO THE PUBLIC DEBATE
We aim to enrich public discourse by contributing sharp analyses, thought-provoking articles, and active participation in conferences, always with a focus on fostering a nuanced and informed debate.
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AI challenges the status quo for businesses, citizens, and society. Finding the best solutions requires not only mastering its possibilities but also maintaining a critical perspective. Drawing on systems thinking, we facilitate open, interdisciplinary dialogue on AI to enhance the capacity of leaders and change agents, fostering informed action and innovation in organizations.
OUR MISSION
We are a constellation of interdisciplinary specialists spanning advanced data analytics, business development, organizational studies, the arts, philosophy, and technology. We believe that diverse perspectives and interdisciplinary collaboration are essential to fostering informed and critical discourse on artificial intelligence and build resilience.
Coding and Data Systems Architecture
Analytics, Organization, Business Development, Strategy
Art, Culture
Philosophy
INTERDISCIPLINARY SKILLS
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WE OFFER FORESIGHT SESSIONS AND TOOLS FOR BUSINESSES
We invite you to engage in bold and wild imaginings about the future. Through the realms of art, philosophy, and the senses, we challenge conventional thinking, illuminate dilemmas, and through business insight and organizational understanding, equip you with concrete tools to move forward with AI.
LEARN ABOUT OUR FORESIGTH SESSIONS AND WHAT WE OFFER
AI opens up many possibilities, and with new opportunities and shortcuts come dilemmas. We aim to raise questions and highlight dilemmas and striving to find a balance between technological excitement and practical usability.
Who do we become, when the world around us is no longer real, but generated?
Historically, culture has been shaped by community, and if culture is the glue that holds society together, how do we continue to maintain that cohesion. What happens to us if we can no longer remember our culture?
If individual language models mean that culture is also defined individually?
Can we handle the threat of mass misinformation, or are we already losing control?
As AI becomes embedded in politics, economics, security, and communication, a new set of urgent questions emerges, Does AI influence geopolitics — and if so, who holds the power? How do we live with the cyber (in)security and risks of identity theft that follow in its wake?
What happens to companies if the employees are AI agents rather than humans?
What will collaboration with AI be like? Are we skilled enough? How will it feel to work when your colleague is an AI? And what if your boss prefers the AI? Will we even need to earn money in the future?
AI is always available, does this
blur our understanding of real friendship?
How do technology and AI affect our social skills and relationships? When does a machine become my best friend? What dilemmas arise when AI becomes our go-to for sensitive, life-defining matters, such as suicide prevention, diet guidance, or therapy?
What opportunities and challenges does AI create for our collective decision-making processes?
How does it change the way we make decisions, together?
In a world where algorithms can predict, recommend, and even decide, do we still have a democracy? Do we still share the power to make decisions? Who gets to decide and on what basis? Is a machine’s decision ever truly democratic?
X42 is a collective of interdisciplinary expertise, each rooted in their own area of specialization. Our members are C-level and represent fields such as consumer behavior, statistics, mathematics, culture, ethics, creativity, technology, language models, development, organizational behavior and leadership.