Erich Frommthe great German sociologist and Freudian psychologist, in times when artificial intelligence had not yet been born, made this statement more relevant than ever: «In the past, the danger was that men became slaves; the danger of the future is that they will become robots.” Today more than ever we depend on technology, which in some cases helps us live better, but if used with common sense.
Enzo – Varese
Erich Fromm’s intuition grasped the risks and opportunities well in advance which today offers this recent and in its time truly unimaginable resource. On the one hand it can improve and facilitate work, care, knowledge and quality of life; on the other hand, if used indiscriminately, it risks atrophying critical thinking, freedom and personal responsibility, which can never be delegated to a machine. The real danger, however, is not the machine itself, but the man who gives up making decisions. It all depends on us. The challenge is to govern AI with ethics and humanity, so that it remains an ally and does not instead become the master of our lives.
