I'm aware of how foolish it is to want to talk about artificial intelligence right during the week of Mobile World Congress, the year in which AI is the main focus of attention. And even more so if the point is to say that one of the best things it offers us right now is that it not only forces us to better define its scope and limits, but above all to consider what differentiates it from human intelligence. Or, to put it without so much self-promotion, what the true specificity of the human condition is. A few days ago, in SubtrackIgnasi Llorente argued, quite rightly, that AI needs more philosophers and fewer computer scientists. It's a good way to put it. Llorente wrote this in response to the news that Google is looking for philosophers to join its AI teams, and that it doesn't want them just to make things look good.

1. In the hands of those who believe everything is permissible and their ambition knows no bounds, artificial intelligence (AI), to which they are willing to dedicate the necessary resources to create the framework for dominating society, is becoming the great redemption that points to a genuine mutation of the human condition. Right now, some are already saying that AI can have feelings and sensitivity, that is, that it can challenge human uniqueness. Is it possible to believe that AI can replace the complex and arbitrary economy of human desire? A machine, however capable of capturing and combining information, will it be able to experience love and hate, desire and fury, fascination and horror, pleasure and sadism, as is characteristic of living beings, and particularly humans, through their complex perceptual system? And what would become of this world if we reached this point, with powers capable of imposing upon us, with supposed scientific legitimacy, the way we are here? This is nothing new: there have been tragic and botched attempts at these kinds of endeavors. Without going too far back, what were the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century, with their Nazi, fascist, and communist variants?