Thinking our humanity in the face of technological mutations
The advent of artificial intelligence and the digitization of the world mark a major anthropological rupture: for the first time, humanity is no longer alone facing existence. Machines are no longer simple tools but become partners in an “operative connivance” that redefines the boundaries between the living and the artificial. This unexpected proximity between human beings and machines reveals that AI now surpasses our cognitive functions, inviting us to redefine ourselves not by what we do but by what we fundamentally are. The digital becomes our new milieu of existence, modifying the very conditions of life as nature, economy, or education did before it. In this universe where algorithms shape our perceptions and where digital mediation transforms the work of art, innovation no longer comes from technical mastery but from singular usage, from the creative presence that resists uniformization. Between filter bubbles and algorithmic serendipity, between generalized surveillance and new forms of expression, we discover that our humanity now plays out in our capacity to consciously inhabit this new reality rather than suffer or reject it.