Un mio intervento filosofico disturbante intorno alle nuove condizioni di possibilità del significare e dell’agire umani nell’era delle macchine istituenti. Ne discuteremo insieme martedì 13 gennaio 2026 a STEP FuturAbility Discrict (inspired by Fastweb + Vodafone) in un workshop aperto al pubblico milanese in Piazza Olivetti 1. Vi aspettiamo per capire a chi spetta l’ultima parola!
<< …If automated systems and software are opaque by design, the human renders decisions transparent. If automated decisions risk subordinating humans to technocracy, the human provides the requisite dignity of human consideration. If automated systems discriminate on account of the way data encodes social bias, the human corrects errors and ensures decision quality. If automation produces non-reflective forms of mindless governance, the human grounds the legitimacy and authority of legal commands. If software dissolves accountability into the procurement, design and engineering of a decision system, the human provides a coherent locus of responsibility. If automation includes emergent and generative qualities, the human garners trust, and normalises regulatory strategies premised on risk management. These intuitions mean the human in the loop has become a sort of Talisman of the appeal to re-humanise – a symbolic regulatory apparatus. At the same time, however the human in the loop’s capacity to satisfy those demands has been questioned on a number of registers. (…) These arguments terminate in a conceptual and regulatory impasse. Human oversight of automated decisions may, at times, be ineffective or functionally impossible, but abandoning human agency in decision-making is politically and functionally inconceivable >> (Goldenfein, Lost in the Loop. Who is the “human” of the Human in the Loop?)
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