Open Lab Evening: Five-Star Society

Can data, scores, and AI help ensure greater fairness?

What if our society were no longer organized solely by laws and rules, but also by algorithms that evaluate, reward, and penalize behavior? In the Open Lab, you’ll work together to develop your own social scoring system: What—and in what form—should a society based on solidarity and sustainability reward—and where do surveillance, paternalism, and injustice begin?



Algorithms that evaluate, reward, and penalize our individual behavior: What might initially sound like a surveillance state could raise the question of whether socially desirable behavior can be promoted more fairly and flexibly through a social credit system than through penalties and taxes.

Together in the Open Lab, you’ll explore the question of what behavior a society based on solidarity and sustainability should reward, what such incentives might look like, and what data could be used for this purpose. And above all: Where are the limits—when do incentives become paternalism, evaluations become surveillance, and supposed justice give rise to new injustices?



Workshop Facilitator

Mads Pankow publishes and speaks on AI and society. He founded the magazine “Die Epilog,” organized the Digital Bauhaus Summit, and has advised various federal and state ministries. In his book “Die wahrscheinliche Wahrheit” (The Probable Truth), he examines how AI is changing truth, justice, and society.



Information

-> Venue: Futurium Lab Workshop

-> Admission: free

-> Registration is required.

-> Remaining tickets are available at the venue.

-> Event language: German

-> Maximum number of participants: 20 people

-> The event is open to anyone aged 16 and older.

-> Duration: 2.5 hours

-> Requirements: No prior knowledge required



Accessibility

-> We are a wheelchair-accessible venue.

-> Spaces without seating are available for people in wheelchairs.

The future is for everyone! The Futurium aims to be accessible to all. If you have any additional accessibility needs, please let us know. We’ll do our best to accommodate them:

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Photos & Videos

Photos and videos will be taken during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed, please let us know in advance.



Tickets

-> You’ll need a free ticket for this event.

-> Due to limited seating, only one ticket per person can be booked.

-> The Futurium thrives on big ideas—and small contributions. With a donation, you help make the future possible! You can support the Futurium here: with DeepL

Meeting point: Workshop Area of the Lab

Booking: Registration is required

Next date:

• Date Thursday, 14/January/2027 17:00 bis 19:30
• Venue Futurium
• Address Alexanderufer 2, 10117 Berlin-Mitte