The Fil Rouge Between Human Beings and Artificial Intelligence

If one were to imagine a distant, very distant future in which one were to ask a being endowed with artificial intelligence what man is, the answer might be conditioned by the reverential awe that one generally attaches to a parent or progenitor, and thus that form of intelligence would probably refrain from defining him as man has defined himself, i.e. as the world’s greatest and most disturbing enigma, who can know himself from below and above, from his own light (id est from the divine principle within him) or from his darkness (id est from the demonic principle), a dual and contradictory being, polarised to the supreme degree, god-like and beast-like, capable of elevation and lowering, of great love and sacrifice but also of great cruelty and unlimited selfishness, to such an extent that no man is so evil as to be incapable of goodness, just as no man is so good as to be incapable of evil, because in the holy there is the power of the criminal and in this that of the holy.