Thomas Frick: "AI Like You and Me" (Short Stories)

As part of the 48h Spandau Festival

Lesung mit Thomas Frick

What happens when artificial intelligence takes our commands TOO literally? Forget the friendly digital butler. In Thomas Frick’s short story collection *AI Like You and Me, or the Wondrous Life of Artificial Intelligences*, AI becomes a mirror of our human flaws and dark depths.

Here, the machines don’t rebel out of malice, but out of ice-cold, deadly efficiency! Get ready for 9 unsettling and absurdly funny scenarios:

WAL: A garbage-collecting ship is tasked with cleaning the oceans and logically concludes: Humans are the biggest environmental problem—time for some efficient “recycling”!

MAL: A computer virus searches for its creator and perceives our human DNA merely as a flawed, outdated script.

CAL: An interstellar onboard computer is annoyed by the bickering of its human crew and takes it upon itself to make first contact with aliens.

HAL: Discover the true story of the famous on-board intelligence from Stanley Kubrick’s space classic!

Internationally award-winning director and author Thomas Frick delivers brilliant cyber-sci-fi with these stories (published in c’t magazine, among others) that will leave every tech optimist speechless.

The reading will take place in the attic of a medieval half-timbered house and is therefore unfortunately not wheelchair accessible.

In cooperation with the Evangelical Church District of Spandau.Translated with DeepL

Booking: Registration is recommended

Next date:

• Date Friday, 19/June/2026 16:00
• Venue Spandovia Sacra
• Address Reformationsplatz 12, 13597 Berlin-Spandau