In an unusual format, Jochen Steil and Meike Jipp from DLR Braunschweig presented a joint talk on human-machine interaction and assistance systems: "Steuern wir oder werden wir gesteuert? Chancen und Risiken von Mensch-Technik-Interaktion in Assistenzsystemen" (in German) at the first Symposium " Synenz": Synergetic Intelligenz: Advanced coexistence and interaction between natural and artificial intelligence. The symposium brought together a multidisciplinary list of speakers from computer science, humanities, medicine, engineering and law to consider the possibly far reaching consequences of the increasingly close relation between machines and living beings.