Abstract

By bringing together technological and philosophical perspectives, this paper seeks to highlight some critical faults in the narrative surrounding recent developments in Ai. Without in any way denying the inevitable specificities of the exquisitely technical debate around the implementation of such technologies, it is still possible try to expand the explanatory framework that the specialist discussion can be part of. In particular, the philosophical, political and social aspects - production chains, effects on democratic inclusion, the «mechanics» of the relationship between private and public policy, responsibility – do not always emerge clearly in technical reconstructions: instead, the article proposes to show that it is precisely as Ai increasingly assumes the force of a total social fact – i.e. potentially including every aspect of associated life – that the humanistic intellectual contribution comes powerfully back onto the scene. A holistic approach to the issue must be attempted, one that covers every aspect of the discussion and thus become an attempt at clarification and a democratic contribution. Nothing is precluded from the analysis, from the «democratic contestability» of the ownership of such technologies to the never-ending role of ethical-moral disciplines in the debate about the moral agentivity of such human creations.