Overview
- The episode was scheduled to air on Tuesday, October 20 at 23:15 on ZDF and will be available afterward in the ZDF‑Mediathek for on‑demand viewing.
- Host Markus Lanz invited four guests: AI researcher Hans Uszkoreit, KUKA Group CEO Christoph Schell, ethicist Alena Buyx, and digital commentator Sascha Lobo.
- Christoph Schell is set to explain current and near‑term uses of robots and industrial AI, focusing on how automation is applied in manufacturing and service settings.
- Alena Buyx will raise ethical questions and discuss the regulatory debate over how to govern AI systems and protect people from misuse.
- Sascha Lobo and other guests will highlight security concerns about autonomous AI agents that could plan or carry out cyberattacks and the wider public policy debate this episode feeds into.