Carl Jung and Artificial Intelligence: Shadows and Governments Dr. Philip

200 THB
Science fiction has long warned us of the moment when our creations begin to dream—and govern—for us. Today, as generative AI floods the public square with hyper-realistic deepfakes, synthetic influencers, and algorithmic propaganda, our collective psyche faces an unprecedented mirror. While mainstream debates focus on productivity and regulation, a deeper crisis remains underexplored in posthumanist discourse: the convergence of artificial intelligence, digital identity, and mass narrative manipulation.
In Blade Runner 2049, the giant holographic projection of Joi demonstrates how synthetic entities are engineered to mirror and exploit our deepest psychological desires—a visual parallel to the AI-driven cybersimulacra Dr. Freiberg will dissect:
Join Socratic Café Chiang Mai and Dr. Philip Y. Freiberg for a critical exploration of how modern AI brings classic sci-fi prophecies to life, acting as a vessel for the Jungian "Shadow" by projecting our repressed collective fears, biases, and desires into the digital ether to reshape cultural realities and democratic processes.
What We Will Explore

• The Jungian Shadow in the Machine: Much like the "Monsters from the Id" in Forbidden Planet or the rogue replication of Agent Smith in The Matrix, how do modern large language models and generative media absorb, amplify, and reflect the hidden shadow of human consciousness back into public life?
• Cybersimulacra and Reality Drift: Echoing Philip K. Dick’s Simulacra, the holographic companions of Blade Runner 2049, and the digital grieving avatars of Black Mirror ("Be Right Back"), we draw on integrated critical theory and contemporary case studies—from viral election deepfakes to synthetic social movements—to examine how AI-driven cybersimulacra dissolve the boundary between authentic discourse and fabricated consensus.
• The Rise of Cyber-de-ocracy: From the predictive behavioral control of the AI supercomputer Rehoboam in Westworld (Season 3) to the bureaucratic mind-monitoring of Psycho-Pass, we examine how state and non-state actors deploy algorithmic governance, automated surveillance, and narrative manipulation to hollow out traditional government structures, replacing democratic deliberation with cyber-de-ocracy.
• Posthumanism and Fragmented Agency: Channeling the existential identity crises of Ghost in the Shell (where the "Puppet Master" AI emerges from the sea of information to hack human memories) and William Gibson’s Neuromancer, we use a case-based theoretical synthesis to investigate how outsourcing cognition and civic judgment to autonomous systems fragments human agency and accelerates our transition into a volatile new techno-future.

The Format
Following Dr. Freiberg’s presentation and theoretical synthesis, we will open the floor in true Socratic Café tradition. Expect rigorous, participatory dialogue where we question our assumptions, dissect real-world AI events alongside their speculative fiction counterparts, and ask what remains of the sovereign human self when the machine begins to dream for us.