Super Artificial Intelligence, in the scenario of the so-called Singularity, opens up disturbing scenarios. The concept of Singularity, or “technological singularity,” the dreaded moment when artificial intelligence will surpass human intelligence, was conceived after World War II and to some extent aligns with the dystopian sentiment generated by the use and proliferation of atomic weapons….
The challenges of Transhumanism and the Singularity
Is man destined to be overtaken by Super Artificial Intelligence, in the age of the Singularity? Should the Homo Sapiens species we know stand aside in the face of the mutant and cyborg organisms predicted by transhumanist currents? Maybe not. Let us try to pose the question considering historical precedents. Prehistoric mythical man was replaced…
The idea of the Singularity is not recent: in 1958 Stanislaw Ulam reported discussing with John Van Neumann a “singularity in the history of the race beyond which the afflictions of human beings, as we know them, cannot continue.” A few years later, in 1965, statistician I. J. Good associated the singularity with the advent…
Those who support the Singulatiry hypothesis often talk of apocalyptic scenarios, in a dystopian approach that also affects many visions of Transhumanism. Geoffrey Hinton, often called the “godfather of AI,” warned that there is a 10-20% chance that AI could contribute to human extinction in the next 30 years. The argument lies in the consideration…
Transhumanism (sometimes abbreviated as >H or H+ or H-plus) is a movement that aims to promote the use of technological innovations to increase physical and cognitive capabilities and improve aspects considered undesirable in the human condition, such as disease and aging, with a view also to a possible post-human transformation. In particular, transhumanists believe that…
The growing importance of Artificial Intelligence in the economic, media, and geopolitical spheres is setting the stage for a potential technocratic system that can undermine and replace the democratic and even other political systems in place in the world today. The problem primarily concerns democracies, which have been entering a phase of crisis for decades…
Human control over Artificial Intelligences will have to be exercised with more tools and practices: one way could be to use technologies that can easily switch from one model of artificial intelligence to another. First of all, it is important to learn to use the term Artificial Intelligence in the plural: we are not dealing…
One of the dialectics relevant to the political and socioeconomic effect of Artificial Intelligence is that between proprietary technologies, i.e., owned by a company, and Open Source technologies, i.e., software in which the source code is made publicly available, allowing anyone to examine, modify, distribute and improve it free of charge. The Open Source collaborative…
Thierry Breton, former European commissioner for the internal market and services, provided strategic and operational guidance on how the European Union intends to approach the digital sector, valid for both the metaverse and Artificial Intelligence, starting with the relationship betweeen public and private and the need for open standards: “Private metaverses should be developed on…
The AI Act, European regulation on Artificial Intelligence, which came into effect on August 1, 2024, has begun to establish a global framework for protecting people from the risks of these technologies and the drift toward technocracy. In this regulation, it is considered appropriate, for example, to prohibit the marketing, commissioning or use of AI…
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