Im Imitationsspiel. Über die Kommunikation mit Maschinen und das Streben nach Artificial General Intelligence

This article examines how machines are categorized as artificial intelligence, and under which conditions this categorization gains societal acceptance. Drawing on theories of social and cultural differentiation, it shows how artificial intelligence blurs the line between humans and machines and underscores the role of mediatization. To this end, the paper reconstructs the Turing Test as a blueprint for a communicative solution to the problem of machine intelligence. The article suggests that artificial intelligence currently occupies an ontological hybrid position between fiction and fact. In this context, the race toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), as proclaimed by technology leaders, serves to temporalize the question of AI’s ontological status.

Dickel, Sascha. "Im Imitationsspiel. Über die Kommunikation mit Maschinen und das Streben nach Artificial General Intelligence" Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1515/zfsoz-2025-2011