WORDS, MACHINES, BRAINS: RECOGNIZING WHAT IS HUMAN TO DEFEND IT

Paolo Benanti, Franciscan, professor of Moral Philosophy and Ethics of Technology, Luiss Guido Carli, engaged in research in the fields of techno-ethics and Artificial Intelligence, neuroethics and the post-human; Andrea Moro, Professor of General Linguistics and Neurolinguistics at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and IUSS Pavia, Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Moderated by Marco Aluigi, Deputy Director of the Meeting for Friendship Amongst Peoples ETS Foundation

Confusing calculation with thought is the most insidious reductionism of our time. Whoever today has the power to decide on new technologies has the duty to understand and declare first of all their real nature. If the only criterion by which one decides how to use, regulate, and direct them is efficiency, computing power, and control of societies, what is human perishes. A dialogue to recognize what makes the human “human”: language, consciousness, and the biological limits of man.