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The Human Being in the Age of AI

What remains human when machines can do more and more?

The book

Who Decides?

The Human Being, the Machine, the Soul and Responsibility

by Andreas Hosang

5 parts, 16 chapters: Starting Point · The Human Being · The Machine · Decision and Responsibility · Outlook

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Machine translation v1.0 · German original v1.0.5 · October 2026

Machine translation of the German original. In case of discrepancy, the German original is authoritative. German original

«What distinguishes the human being from a machine that comes ever closer to it in thinking?»
«One asks what a system can do.The other asks what the human being is for.This book brings them into conversation.»
Andreas Hosang, Preface

Contents

Note on this translation: This edition is a machine-generated translation of the German original. References, bibliographic citations and page numbers have been retained from the German original and refer to the editions cited there. Quotations, including biblical quotations, have as a rule been translated from the German text and have not been checked against the original sources or against English-language editions of the Bible. In cases of ambiguity or discrepancy, the German original is authoritative.

Preface

Sources & evidence