You, Robot: First literary work written (and translated from Italian) by an Artificial Intelligence system: From market policy to the marketization of politics
When you write what you think, you only have to mediate between your thoughts and the words. Asking an artificial intelligence to articulate a reasoning on a topic and write it down has been quite different and much more difficult. Why? Because I had to simulate all the steps of a hypothetical reasoning. So I imagined a list of potential questions to ask a hypothetical interlocutor. Eureka! There's the key. The second step was to decide on the topic to speculate on, with the somewhat wicked intention of testing my cyber interlocutor on thorny, difficult and controversial the relationship between politics and open society. I had to bring my virtual interlocutor to reason about politics and how it can be conditioned in a liberal society, how politics, in the Western world, born to guarantee the market, can degenerate into the lowest market of politics, and how democratic systems degenerate when they forget to guarantee democratic debate. Did our artificial intelligence manage to answer these thorny and perennial questions? The difficult judgment is up to you.
THE AUTHOR Dario Colombo, is an author who, starting from a technical-scientific background, has accustomed us over time to surprise us by publishing, in the past, collections of poetry and socio-political essays. With this work, unexpectedly, he returns on his steps and offers us a new technical experiment the thought of a robot. It is the closure of a circle.