Let’s do future research and imagine what will happen in 2026. Let’s think about the topics that will certainly be the subject of discussion as we look at our own and others’ recently introduced plans. It is enough to see that some European and American media, books and films are coming, renewed discussions are taking place, to suggest (without taking great risks) that there are themes that will be repeated and deepened, and others that will change. For example, the massacre in Australia shows that heon the anti-Semitic topic returns to the arena of all kinds of debates (or never leaves it). A tragedy that ensued a strong criticism of multiculturalism by ultra-sectors.
Philosophy – often at the interface with politics – will mark a quick path to analyzing this world in which the boundaries between the present and the past have already been blurred. Topics such as climate crisis, biotechnology, social reconfiguration after the pandemic (your discussion is still valid), the crisis of democracy and the emergence and invasion of technology.
The debates take place well beyond academic spheres or places that are inaccessible to the general public. They not only leave the monasteries, but spread into all living cultural expressions and also occupy everyday spaces of discussion. Of course, this happened in the context of the impact of technology, especially with the use of mobile phones and the complete penetration of AI in daily life: these are situations from which no one is left out. When we think about these issues, we realize that they are areas linked to current and future social, political and economic problems. as if it had never happened before.
In the case of AI, we know that it will continue to be dominant, its derivatives are infinite, such as the case of the machine putting itself in the position of a psychotherapist. The number of people who prefer to ask ChatGPT It is increasing due to his existential, love and worldly problems. The temptation to put one together prompt It is very difficult to ask something in chat.
Will philosophy be the one to put AI to the test and give it the ethical bell, or will it at least try? The idea of the future as a place that offers solutions has become a space where there are only shadows and dystopias. A threat that has been fueled and stimulated by technology that can become one Vehicles of hate. The place of the technologists who play dice with the world is no less important.
In this context, we need thinkers who are able to explain what is happening. Not only to understand it, but also to imagine a different possible future, one in which technology is at our service and not the other way around. What are the priorities for humanity? This is precisely about those who think about the risks of the future and start from human standards.
There are many Fearssome classics such as those of a war or a new plague. However, the writer Antonio Tabucchi said to me some time ago in a very pessimistic interview: “I do not believe that the task of calming the world or solving the great problems of wars and massacres belongs to artists and literature.” Picasso painted Guernica, but he didn’t stop Franco’s hand.”
The philosophy works in harmony with the path that art and literature have taken. Art biennials, for example, no longer only capture the conflicting contexts in which the works are created, they also anticipate a step in time and go one step further: they suggest a post-apocalyptic scene. But not everything is dystopian, they can also propose scenarios in which, for example, peaceful coexistence with nature is suggested. Something very necessary for the search for mental and global balance. Of matter and spirit.
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