A Philosopher Released an Acclaimed Book About Digital Manipulation. The Author Ended Up Being AI
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Summary
Italian philosopher and essayist Andrea Colamedici’s new book, “Ipnocrazia,” uses AI to critique concepts generated by AI.
The book explores the relationship between US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to illustrate how reality has become a political battleground.
“We must understand AI and learn to use it as an interlocutor that helps us think differently,” Colamedici says.
He emphasizes that if we don’t understand AI and simply use it to affirm our own biases, our thinking will be confirmed but not challenged.
Colamedici, who presented himself as the translator of the book – the term also means a bridge in Italian – says that the future of philosophy is found in the cracks between what we might call “normality.”
“The coming philosophy will not be a refuge, but a spur,” he says, “It will wake us up from the technocratic dream with more pointed questions than those posed by any algorithm.
