Concerns about AI have led many to question the place of human creativity, labour and even thinking itself. What is at stake is not just a new tool, but a shift in how intelligence, value and agency are understood. Technology no longer simply serves us; it increasingly shapes the conditions in which we act and imagine.

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This course begins with a basic question: what is technology? Not only the devices we use, but the human drive to build, organise and extend ourselves into the world. To construct and measure is already to shape what counts as knowledge and action.

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Today, information organises social life. Data and algorithms structure the environments in which decisions are made. Systems anticipate behaviour, guide attention and influence what seems possible.

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To think about AI, then, is to understand how these systems both support and regulate contemporary life. Drawing on thinkers such as Martin Heidegger and Bernard Stiegler, we ask how technical systems reshape responsibility, creativity and collective life.

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The aim is not to defend or condemn AI, but to think about it clearly. Instead of reacting with fear or enthusiasm, we ask what kinds of selves and forms of life are being produced, and how we might respond thoughtfully rather than simply adapt.