Sapiens’ Future in the Age of Artificial World Picture

AI, in its various forms and articulations, represents a range of new opportunities and strategies that our species can use to improve its condition. Often the scenarios presented in association with AI speak of a humanity threatened by machines or, conversely, of a utopian future in which man and machine will be fully hybridized harmoniously. In this article, I try to put into shape some of the key questions emerging in the field of Artificial Intelligence, avoiding sensationalist exaggerations on the one hand and, on the other, pointing out that the real challenge posed by intelligent machines lies in the new ways in which humans will be able to rethink and reinvent themselves and, therefore, their own possibilities for existence in what, even now, connotes itself as an Artificial World.