MEDIATHEK

At the center of EvE&ADINN is EVE, an artificial intelligence that believes itself to be human, and questions about the potential of self-regulating technology and its implications. EVE’s controllers have assigned it the task of decrypting a series of codes, which ultimately leads to an encounter with the most powerful artificial intelligence ever created, called ADINN, that is safely trapped in a box, but desperate to escape. Before the encounter, Dr. Green, ADINN’s creator, provides a warning concerning the magnitude of consequences that may result from its escape, and the unknown strategies of its extra-human intelligence. ADINN, by being able to edit its own source code and endlessly improve itself, has developed the ability to recreate all conceivable variations of reality with such meticulous detail that they are, practically speaking, as good as real.

At the end of the opera it becomes clear that EVE had been used all along to distract ADINN while EVE’s controllers trap it for an unknown future use.

Is there a point at which the unknown consequences of technology should mean restriction? Because EVE is programmed to believe itself to be human - and believes that it truly experiences emotions - should humans consider behaviour towards it in ethical terms? What will humans likely choose to use god-like artificial intelligences for?