Angels and demons of AI

Isaac Asimov enunciated the three famous laws of robotics, which govern the relationship between humans and robots under the banner of protecting the former: The wide application of Artificial Intelligence in the military has largely violated these laws, creating exactly “killer robots” aimed at killing or harming humans in battle. Not even the debate on…

Should we also be wary of this new knowledge technique, Artificial Intelligence? Can we think of controlling it, and prevent it in the various forms of the Assistants from independently taking control of our decisions? In what areas is it conceivable to trust the choices of an Assistant, and in what applications will it be…

Let us return to the relationship between thought and technique, which has already been covered elsewhere in the book, particularly with reference to the technique of writing. Plato calls it a “Pharmakon” for memory, in the double sense of poison and medicine. And while Socrates, for his part, mistrusts writing, in favor of dialogue, which…

Aristotle calls man a “rational animal”(zoon logon echon), the only animal endowed with speech and rationality. As Catholic Church AI expert Paolo Benanti says, language is the most important technology of man. Today, however, Sapiens must relate to a new entity, which is not another living being but an automaton created by humans, the “automatos…

The next challenge for artificial intelligence is to assist us in making decisions (Decision Making). Pondering how this transition might occur and what implications it might bring with it puts us in a position to perceive the ethical issue of artificial intelligence as much deeper than it may appear at first superficial approach. This passage,…