Abstract

In this increasingly interdependent and interconnected era, the hegemonic paradigm of the hyper-technological civilization brings in its wake a series of grand illusions intimately linked to the possibility of marginalizing the Human, delegating our choices, responsibilities and even our educational processes to systems of artificial intelligence and interconnected technological devices, which seem capable of restoring certainties that are instead purely illusory: grand illusions of rationality, total control, predictability, measurability, and the elimination of error. In the meantime, the human dimension is dwarfed by the logics of a market in which dignity, in Weberian terms, is known only of the thing and not of the Person, a global market left at the mercy of its “self-normativity”, which highlights even further the weakening of social bonds we are experiencing, along with the alarming ambition that human beings can or should resemble machines, in order to enhance our capacities, eliminate error and even worse, neutralize the unpredictability of our actions and decisions.