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The AI revolution requires an evolutionary leap in human intelligence. Historical analysis of previous techno-cognitive revolutions helps us face the challenge of AI

The transitions of technology and intelligence
The genes of the great intellectual mutations
The evolutionary leaps of intelligence
The alphabet: the greatest cognitive revolution
The Semitic alphabet and sensory removal
The psyche of writing
The war of the media and the gods
The historical effect of literacy
Alphabet and superhuman intelligence
The commandments of the alphabet: no to images and orality
Greece: from the tales of myth to the texts of philosophy
Philosophy and art
The advent of philosophy and the removal of myth
Number and the physical and mathematical mind
Jews and Greeks: the two cognitive revolutions of the alphabet
The sense of money
The Perspective Machine and the Renaissance
Man the measure of the world
The Florentine avant-garde: the race for innovation
The press and free access to reading
The thought of freedom of the press
Typography and democracy
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Galileo, the telescope and the scientific revolution
The role of cognitive technologies in the experimental scientific method
The advent of photography and the birth of modern art
From modern art to design to everyday life
Photographic technique mirrors the world
Mass media: cinema, radio and TV
The World Wide Web the collective mind
The dark side of the net
The Internet and the power of artificial intelligence
AI: a revolution on the scale of literacy

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The new AI ecosystem requires appropriate anthropological models, pedagogical methodologies and teaching techniques. Education is the main application domain of extended human intelligence

The meaning of extended education
The grand challenges of the education system in the AI era
Toward digital individual education?
Coronavirus: the disaster of distance education
AI: the motivational crisis
Transhumanism and bionic education
University: a model at risk
The future of the school, the school of the future
Beyond the school of letters and numbers
Pedagogy as anthropological design
Adopt or ban AI in schools?
The mediation of the educational community
The school “above” artificial intelligence
Training with AI and at AI
The new skills of the student
The importance of the body and spatiality in cognition: GPS neurons
Culture sub specie ludi
The art of artificial memory
The extended intelligence between AI and XR
Xsense: The Super Senses of Extended Reality.
Intelligere: visual recognition as a learning support
AI-supported incremental teaching applied to extended reality
Didactics and Artificial Intelligence
Solutions for technical education and new professions
The teaching methodology of Innovation Design
The teaching methodology of workplace simulation
Solutions for critical thinking
The educational exploitation of original sources
Designing the future with AI
Chat-bots as artificial tutors
Using multimodal generative AI for content production
Automated technologies to support language study
Supervised pedagogical solutions for soft skill training
Educational platforms above AI: exercising human intelligence beyond artificial intelligence

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Let us try to imagine the forms of human intelligence, extended by interaction with AI, in different areas, from culture to professions, from education to media

Technology as an extension of man
Why an AI-book: mutant publishing
Portraits of Homo Extensus
The cognitive designer of extended intelligence
The algoretic: the one who makes sense of AI
Metis, practical intelligence and AI
Xsense, the man with extended senses
The logosomatic author
The journalist between the real and synthetic world
The mutant publisher
The magister extensus
The multimodal creative
The artist antidote to the artificial
Leonardo’s intelligence
Symposia and artificial councils
The operational encyclopedist
The artificial polyglot
Organizational AI and One-Man-Corporations.
The predictive visionary
The mind empowered by incremental human-machine dialogue
Spacetelling and Exploratory Intelligence
Forms of extended intelligence

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Cultural heritage may find AI a useful technology for preservation and enjoyment, by users with sensory and sensitivity extended by technology.

The digital transformation of culture
AI for inclusivity in museums
Extended museums
The emergence of digital museums
Pervasive and dialogic museums
Immersive exhibitions
Regenerative Arts
Regenerative history
Immersive Historia: immersive storytelling and virtual reconstruction of history
Archaeological reconstructions: from 3D to AI
From writing to spacing, immersive culture

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In addition to addressing the risks of fake news and algorithmic bias, the media industry can seize the opportunities of a new creative season empowered by AI

Real or artificial?
New opportunities for the entire media supply chain
Enhanced Creators
Global authors and publishers
Artificial influencers
Customization of advertising
The extended book
From the picture to the sphere
An observatory and workshop on Media and AI.

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Homo Extensus should not be subjected to, flanked by, or replaced by AI, but should control and manage it. For this, the “Above AI” paradigm must be developed.

Sapiens above the AI
Above AI as a European industrial strategy
AI as a commodity and raw material
A protection for privacy and intellectual property
Above AI mediation for educational communities.
Virtual Interfaces Above AI
Above AI and Over-The-top
Not in or beside, but on top of the AI

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In the field of ethics, there is not only the question of regulating AI, but also the question of managing the influences of Artificial Intelligence on human values and behavior

The future influence of AI on ethical values and behavior
Saints, navigators or co-pilots?
Artificial politically correct or Trumpian ideology?
Confessors, psychologists and spiritual assistants
Chatting with tempting devils or guardian angels
Knowledge or shared wisdom?
Technology and wisdom: the invention of alphabetic writing
The case of Moses and Freud: the birth of consciousness
Artificial super-ego and führer?
AI and the extension of evil
The transgression of Asimov’s laws.
What to do. Open questions on the ethical control of artificial intelligence
Plato: wisdom of the technique or the soul?
Managing the rational automaton
Ethics in Extended Intelligence

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Since Alan Turing’s original idea, AI has tended to imitate humans. The ImitationGame is an effective human-machine interface, but it must be subjected to critical scrutiny and aware that it is a deceptive imitation.

The Turing test and the imitation game of the person
Alexa, Siri and artificial friends.
ChatGPT and the conversational user experience
The deepfake the realistic simulation of real people
Copilot: just an assistant?
Intelligent NPC (Non-Player Character) in Videogames
The Griefbots: AI for the resurrection of the dead
Totem and theriomorphism: understanding the language of animals
Non-anthropomorphic artificial intelligences
The extended mind: technologies as artificial prostheses of the brain
Artificial sages and advisors
Does the human-machine interface pretend to be human-human?

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There is a need to transform the Web and AI from a risk to a resource. Especially in the educational and social fields, negative effects of digital have been highlighted. Appropriate strategies can bring AI back under the control of the educational community

The systemic risks of AI
Risk classification in the AI ACT of the European Union.
Extension or atrophy of human intelligence?
Artificial intelligence VS the educational community
The need for collective extended intelligence
The scientific-cultural origin of the web
The effects of private platforms on the network and AI
The financial drift of the internet and AI
Participatory web 2.0 and wikinomics
The mobile revolution and the sharing economy
The crisis of cultural mediation institutions
The need for a new critical sense
The fake news and deep fakes
The vulgarization of content in social media
Videogames and digital addictions
The smartphone, a weapon of “mass distraction”
AI algorithms that manage content on the web
The attack of the bots
The superficiality of hypertext
Are the network and AI making us stupid?
AI and content rotation
The risks of the custom funnel
Networked ethics and algorithms
The negative impulse of social media – bullying, haters and trolls
The flattening of content quality on the Web
The dominant platforms: the global internet companies “Over The Top”
Traditional media: point-to-multi-point transmission
Internet: from point-to-point communication to AI
From risks to opportunities in accessing networked culture and AI
The Wikipedia case: participatory knowledge
The video resource and AI
Social magazines and the personalization of reading governed by AI algorithms
Machine translation: the web as a translinguistic resource
The forms of control and censorship on the Internet and in AI
Source recognition education
The challenge of digital mediation for the educational and cultural community

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Various “Artificial Intelligences” applied in a variety of economic sectors are emerging, with a major impact on professions

The impact of AI on the world of work
The issue of universal income and the robot tax
Teaching the new professions
European vision in the AI transition
The social doctrine of the Catholic Church and Artificial Intelligence.
Strategic Foresight for economic sectors, businesses and professions
The applications of specialized artificial intelligence
AI: classification of technologies by learning mode and problem solving
Application of AI in economic sectors
Software development
Education
Administrative services
Industry
Tourism
Marketing
Healthcare
Transportation
Environment
Energy
Agribusiness
Military
Finance
AI, globalization and automation

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The role of the artist in the AI era will change profoundly, thanks to new creative potentials. One of the suggestive challenges is to represent the universal and common “world of ideas” between humans and AI

Art as the concretization of intelligence
Digital art
Artistic research on artificial intelligence
Creative Symbiosis with AI
Art as a critical, analytical tool for revolutionary innovation
The platonic representation hypothesis
Platonic ideas, Chinese ideograms or universal ideo-graphs of the future?
Platonic hypothesis and video Esperanto
Planetary interlingual denominators
Interlingual textuality: Eurographia
Letterographia
Mimicon
How to represent the processes of AI image Generation?
Distinctive features of the image generation process using AI
Art and AI image generation
Textuality: discovering new connections between texts and images
Accessibility: a generative art for all?
Conceptuality: the work as a conceptual operation at the root of AI
Universality: the artist explorer of the universal imagination.
Automation: Artists and automatons in search of synergies
Irreality: real versus artificial. Unveiling the mask of generative AI
Ars extensa: the prospects of an art interacting with artificial intelligence

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Homo Extensus intends to place humans above AI, while Singularity envisions the supremacy of technology, and Transhumanism hypothesizes hybridization between humans and machines

AI, a superhuman tool?
Singularity, Transhumanism, and Homo Extensus
The ideas of singularity
The apocalyptic and utopian singularity
Transhumanism, the dystopias of amortal man.
Technocracy VS Democracy
The Artificial Intelligence Switch
Open Source, Open Mind
AI and metaverse: the EU Commission’s guidelines
AI Act: anthropocentric legal protection
Possessors, not possessed by AI.
Artificial intelligent slaves
Unmasking the Imitation Game
Art as an antidote to the venomous aspects of AI
The ontological limit of generative artificial intelligence
Hallucinations
Intelligence or Artificial Intelligence?
Homo et Deus
Deus ex Machina
Homo Extensus, a better man?
A cultural movement for Homo Extensus?

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