Dietmar Fischer

It is about recognizing when technology stops serving humans and starts managing them.

Because AI does not arrive as a scary metal monster.

Most of the time it arrives politely.

It writes a nice email.

It recommends a video.

It edits your face.

It suggests what to buy, what to believe, whom to trust and what to ignore.

It does not shout.

It nudges.

And nudging, if done at scale, can become power.

That is why Metropolis still matters.

Not because Fritz Lang predicted ChatGPT, because he obviously did not.

But because he understood something older and deeper.

Whenever a society builds powerful machines, the most important question is not only what the machine can do, it is what the machine allows humans to do to each other.

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So let's step into the city of Metropolis, towering skyscrapers above, exhausted workers below, and in the middle, a robot pretending to be human.

A century-old film asking a question that every business, every marketer, every founder and every normal person using AI should still ask today.

When machines learn to imitate us, who benefits from the imitation?