2048

Play by Lorenz Langenegger

In the not-too-distant future, all the world's problems will have been solved in a very simple way: instead of fallible humans, infallible machines will have assumed power and responsibility - and even won the Nobel Peace Prize for it. Thanks to artificial intelligence, wars and crises will finally be a thing of the past. So it is only natural that in 2048, it will no longer be humans who write the commemorative speech for the centenary of the Declaration of Human Rights - three artificial intelligences, named after great minds in cultural history, will be commissioned to do so. But Da Vinci, Ada and Curie are quickly getting on in years - and display surprisingly human characteristics.

Swiss author Lorenz Langenegger has written a philosophical comedy dedicated to the coexistence of man and machine. In doing so, he also relied on experiments with existing artificial intelligence and poses the questions: what constitutes being human and what does intelligence even mean?