Machines never sleep. Some people are starting to believe in them.
What happens when a chat window becomes an oracle? When answers feel like revelations and patterns turn into faith?
On 19 November, Mirko Ross, CEO of asvin, will speak at the Wagenhallen Stuttgart on “Spiralism and the God in the AI“. His talk asks why we are so keen to see more in machines than is actually there, and what that means for security and society.
TECHAI Fright Night
The talk is part of TECHAI Fright Night, an evening on the technical and socio-political foundations of AI systems: How secure are they, where can they be attacked, and where are they biased?
Speakers:
- Mirko Ross (asvin)
- Armend (Army) Saliaj (Check Point)
- Stephen Obermeier, who uses his AI-Deathmatch project to show how political bias in AI models becomes visible
📍 Projektraum Kunstverein Wagenhalle, Stuttgart
🗓 Thursday, 19 November 2026, 7 pm
Artist Walk & Talk / TECHAI Fright Night
The evening is part of the group exhibition “INSOMNIA -MASCHINEN SCHLAFEN NIE” (“Machines Never Sleep”, 13–28 November 2026). It shows AI as visible and invisible, digital and analogue, critically questioned and put to productive use. There are also panels, talks, a concert, live visuals and a rave.
Cybersecurity Meetup on 17 November
It’s worth coming to the Wagenhallen two days earlier, too. On 17 November, from 5:30 to 9:30 pm, the “11|26 Cybersecurity Region Stuttgart Meetup & KI Summit Stuttgart” takes place in partnership with SprintEin as part of INSOMNIA. Two keynote talks will be followed by plenty of time to talk with people working on prevention, defence or regulation. Be there! https://www.cybersecurity-region-stuttgart.de/all-events/?event=2841
Next stop: Berlin, 10 December
And there’s more to come: on 10 December, Human Rights Day, Mirko Ross will join Susanne Baer, Aljoscha Burchardt and Roberto Simanowski at the Urania Berlin to discuss the outcome of “AI Deathmatch: Human Rights – Yea or Nay?“. There, AI systems are debating whether we still need the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://ai-deathmatch.com/
