Marcello Vitali-Rosati's lecture at the ARCANES seminar

ARCANES (ARts, Communication, Artifices Numériques et Écosystèmes Socio-numériques) research groupe studies the regimes of authenticity taking place in an era of post-truth, i.e. the transformations of systems of truth, authority and legitimacy at work in contemporary mediation dynamics.

During the ARCANES seminar, Marcello Vitali-Rosati will present a lecture entitled “Intelligence is inevitably artificial: misplaced fears and ignored dangers”.

Since the November 2022 release of chatGPT, the media has been abuzz with talk of "artificial intelligence". A recurring theme in these debates is the human-machine relationship, which sees artificial intelligence pitted against "human" intelligence. The danger of computational approaches is that they threaten the place of human beings, or produce "results" inferior to those that human beings can produce. In my presentation, I'll first question the term "artificial intelligence" and introduce the idea of "models for defining intelligence", then show that the real stakes of computational approaches lie not in the opposition between human and machine, but rather elsewhere: in the political, economic and cultural arrangements that determine their industrialization

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