Janosch Delcker

A portrait of Janosch Delcker, wearing a dark sweatshirt and smiling into the camera, taken outside in Berlin
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Maja Scholtze

Tech journalist and futurist Janosch Delcker has been covering artificial intelligence since it was considered blue-sky research and reporting on it was often viewed as geeky niche journalism. Over the past decade, he's documented AI's foray into the mainstream. In 2018, Politico named him the world's first AI correspondent. Between 2021 and 2025, he was Deutsche Welle's chief technology correspondent, anchoring documentaries on AI from around the world.

Janosch is a graduate of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and a former Fulbright Scholar. His reporting has won several awards, including the national award of the US Foreign Press Association. In late 2024, his book "Der Gedanken-Code: Wie künstliche Intelligenz unser Denken entschlüsselt und wir trotzdem die Kontrolle behalten" ("The Mind Code: How Artificial Intelligence is Decoding Our Thoughts and How to Stay in Control") was published by C.H. Beck in Germany.

 

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Mind-reading AI: How new technology decodes our thoughts — and how we stay in control

Janosch Delcker

Summary
Behind closed doors, researchers and powerful companies are developing tools to understand what we think and feel. Janosch Delcker reveals what's happening. He explains what governments must do to protect our thoughts, and shares tips for everyone on how to stay in control.
Digital rights
Brain
AI
Future & Utopia
Stage 1
Talk
English
re:claim Digital Future
Conference