With several works behind him, Uric Sadin is revealed as one of the most critical European essayers of contemporary technological forms from a look whose base is the former philosophical humanism. If first he had been abocked in the way that new technologies fostered a personalized and restrictive assistance to grab the experience (increased humanity), if the nexus had worked among these alleged "freedom technologies" and the libertarian ideals of the 20th century (The silicolonization of the world), now Sadin faces the concept of "artificial intelligence" based on the history of ideas and a phenomenology of the devices to evaluate what radical changes are being given in the construction mode of the real.

The hypothesis of this key book is that the cause (and not the consequence) of the pregnancy of the phenomenon of artificial intelligence is a change of statute of digital technologies: to be cumulative and intellective prostheses - because they allow storage, indexing and The fast traffic of information - has become entities that are expected to enunciate a truth from the automated interpretation of situations. Under an arc of shapes that go from the most kind (purchase, movement suggestions) to the most coercive (classification and indexing of humans to include / exclude them from certain benefits and rights), in areas related to general social life ( The economy) or in others that rub the intimacy of the individual (the medical evaluation on its own body), artificial intelligence proposes diagnoses that are supposed to be superior to humans because they start the management and correlation of impossible data to be carried out by an individual. Thus, thanks to this power to enunciate a truth that humans can not see, technology ceases to be prosthetic to become anthropomorphic. The autonomy of decision of artificial intelligence systems ends up close the circle of this radical change, facing us for the first time with the technical stadium of the technique: not a logos on the technique produced by humans but human modeled by a Technique capable of producing speech or truth. In this new regime, without a possible replica, the primordial human vocation of living the world is played.