The new artificial paradise AI, technomagic and post-humanism

After a long period in which technology acted primarily as an instrument in the service of human beings, we now find ourselves in a system where technology is omnipresent-a system of information, machines, algorithms, and networks, of which artificial intelligence (AI) technologies are the latest avatar. These AI technologies are so powerful that, having definitively lost control of them, we are now their derivatives, not the other way round. We are caught in their net, which envelops and binds us to everything outside of ourselves. Swept up in a downward spiral, human beings become things, information, spectacles, merchandise, works of art, and artists all at once. We shed our own identity to dissolve into otherness and find ourselves to be something other than ourselves. Here we are, like a bunch of techno-magicians and willing guinea pigs, embarking on a grand-scale experiment on life to come, in real time. According to modern utopias, in this scenario, AI will not just do some of our work for us. They will end up working with us-and even replacing us-in areas previously barred from technical input, such as art, creation, and games.