A Witty Dinner Speech on AI, Robots, and the End of the World
Cyborg, rocket scientist and digital ethicist Christoph Holz takes your guests on an entertaining journey into the age of AI — sharp, optimistic and guaranteed free of PowerPoint fatigue. It's long been too late for pessimism anyway.
Should Terminators really come, there will be good ones too — from Austria.
Housework is a common cause of breakups. A good household robot will save relationships.
By the way, when it comes to AI wiping out humanity, I don't believe in combat robots. We'd notice those. No, the extermination will be handled by sex droids. Going extinct has never been as pleasant as it is today.
Through vivid metaphors and examples, your guests grasp what technology can do — and where its limits lie.
an evening that entertains and still leaves you with something to take home.
and gain an optimistic, action-ready mindset.
Thought experiments that keep the table talking long afterward.
Guidance for Leaders in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
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Voices from hosts and audiences.
Christoph Holz is an extremely inspiring speaker who captivates his audience through a blend of personality, wit and expertise.
★★★★★TBThomas BergmannDigital Summit Zürich
★★★★★Rhetorically brilliant. That was magnificent. Absolutely magnificent. Absolutely fantastic.
TBTobias Beck · Top-Speaker & Jurymitglied
★★★★★At the Insight Health Symposium he delivered an entertaining, crystal-clear talk on AI and an outlook into the digital world, richly illustrated with imagery. Simply brilliant!
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his talk curated on ted.com proves he nails complex digital-future topics convincingly the world over.
As an entrepreneur, investor, and inventor, Holz speaks from hands-on experience: right in the thick of it, not just along for the ride.
Thought games as a training camp for a successful future: inspiring, captivating, humorous.
Yes: examples and key topics are tailored to the industry in advance with the organizer — here, for instance, to Artificial Intelligence, robots, and quantum computers.
Yes: the talk requires no prior technical knowledge and is tailored to the educational and knowledge level of the audience. Usually Holz joins in beforehand to get to know his listeners.
Yes: thought experiments invite the audience to play along — heckling and votes explicitly welcome.
Yes — courage, to be precise: vivid stories like the quantum computer in the wine cellar spark conversations that outlast the evening. Christoph Holz is deliberately optimistic — technology as a tool that empowers the guests.
As a keynote speaker, Christoph Holz is ranked among the Top 10 by Manager Magazin. Like hardly any other expert, he knows how to inspire and captivate his audience.
Holz has carried an RFID chip under his skin since Cebit 2016.
Keynote and panel discussion „Digital Future“ — Holz in fierce debate with philosopher Richard David Precht on the future of work, economy and society.
Christoph Holz is featured as a TED Speaker on the original TED.com platform.
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