Il futuro dell’intelligenza artificiale dipende da quello che pensiamo dell’essere umano

Abstract

What can one think about human beings? At an adequate level of abstraction, one can either believe that humans are special or not. According to the resulting irreconcilable metaphysical positions, AI is either a thought experiment that challenges exceptionalism or evidence of human uniqueness. Since the latter half of the 20th century, we have been experiencing the Promethean drift of exceptionalism, which some term transhumanism. This is not a third way of regarding humans but the unforeseen decoupling phenomenon introduced by AI that is separating humanism from anthropocentrism. While expanding the parameters of the AI debate, the resulting philosophical relentlessness risks fuelling political turmoil and jeopardising AI governance, which in turn sets the stage for the future of AI.