{"id":661,"date":"2019-03-20T14:56:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T14:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/?p=661"},"modified":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T08:43:09","slug":"oracles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2019\/03\/20\/oracles\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the organisation of the project\u00a0<strong>Oracoli. Saperi e pregiudizi al tempo dell&#8217;Intelligenza Artificiale<\/strong>, designed by the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/mediaevo.com\/\">Luca Sossella Editore<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/emiliaromagnateatro.com\/\">Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unipol.it\/it\">Unipol Gruppo<\/a>. It is a series of lectures on the philosophical, historical, social, ethical and economic challenges connected to the emergence of artificial intelligence. I designed and edited a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.che-fare.com\/che-fare-media\/2019\/03\/Oracoli_giornale_def1-compressed.pdf\">journal<\/a> describing the project and expanding the reflection around the main issues it will address.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2019\/03\/20\/oracles\/kasparov\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-663\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-663\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2019\/03\/kasparov.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"496\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2019\/03\/kasparov.jpg 496w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2019\/03\/kasparov-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/files\/2019\/03\/kasparov-461x300.jpg 461w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also published an article in the online magazine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.che-fare.com\/\">CheFare<\/a>, Oracoli&#8217;s partner, discussing how literature over time diversely imagined possible extensions, evolutions, empowerments and re-creations of the human mind and body.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>La letteratura si \u00e8 sempre interrogata sul destino della specie umana, immaginando trasformazioni e metamorfosi, e continuamente riformulando l\u2019ipotesi di una mutazione irreversibile, tale da rendere gli esseri umani irriconoscibili a s\u00e9 stessi. \u00c8 come se l\u2019immaginazione umana fosse percorsa dall\u2019eco di un\u2019inquietudine gi\u00e0 presente nella\u00a0<em>Bibbia<\/em>, che sente la creazione originaria come qualcosa di incompiuto, instabile e precario, oscuramente reversibile o replicabile in forma grottesca: in principio era il Golem.<\/p>\n<p>La creatura d\u2019argilla \u2013 la prima copia robotica dell\u2019essere umano \u2013 evoca una possibilit\u00e0 sempre presente nell\u2019orizzonte dell\u2019umanit\u00e0: l\u2019avvento di una seconda creazione, non divina, ma umana. La produzione di una forma di vita due volte minacciosa: primo perch\u00e9 capace di sottrarsi al controllo dell\u2019umanit\u00e0, e quindi di agire in autonomia, quasi sempre contro l\u2019umanit\u00e0 stessa, distruggendola e annientandola; secondo perch\u00e9 posta di fronte all\u2019umano a interrogarne l\u2019umanit\u00e0: che cosa vuol dire essere umani? Dove si pone il confine tra noi e la materia inerte? Tra noi e le nostre estensioni, produzioni, immaginazioni?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.che-fare.com\/oracoli-gervasi-intelligenza-artificiale\/\">Continue reading on Che Fare<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I participated in the organisation of the project\u00a0Oracoli. Saperi e pregiudizi al tempo dell&#8217;Intelligenza Artificiale, designed by the publisher Luca Sossella Editore with Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione and Unipol Gruppo. It is a series of lectures on the philosophical, historical, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/2019\/03\/20\/oracles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5,6],"tags":[304,319,39,180,306,312,308,315,316,320,310,305,321,117,313,266,307,314,101,317,311,318,309],"class_list":["post-661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-16th-century","category-17th-century","category-18th-century","category-19th-century","category-20th-century","tag-ai","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-ariosto","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-chefare","tag-cyrano-de-bergerac","tag-emilia-romagna-teatro","tag-evgenij-zamjatin","tag-franz-kafka","tag-george-orwell","tag-golem","tag-ia","tag-isaac-asimov","tag-luca-sossella-editore","tag-mary-shelley","tag-massimo-bontempelli","tag-oracoli","tag-philip-k-dick","tag-poe","tag-primo-levi","tag-robot","tag-stanley-kubrick","tag-unipol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":665,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661\/revisions\/665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.history.qmul.ac.uk\/litcaricature\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}