A well -known book for digital manipulation was actually written by him

“When readers discovered the truth about how the book was created, many were hurt. I was deeply repented of it, but it was necessary,” he says.

Wired interviewed Colamedici in a conversation that explored the nuances of his project.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

Wired: What was the inspiration for the philosophical experiment?

Andrea Colamedici: First of all, I learn quick thinking at the European Design Institute and run a research project on artificial intelligence and thought systems at the University of Foggia. Working with my students, I realized that they were using chatgpt in the worst possible way: to copy it. I noticed that they were losing an understanding of life relying on Him, which is alarming, because we live in an era where we have access to an ocean of knowledge, but we do not know what to do with it. I would often warn them: “You can get good grades, even build a great career using chatgpt to cheat, but you will become empty.” I have trained professors from some Italian universities and many ask me, “When can I stop learning how to use chatgpt?” The answer is never. It is not about completing an education in him but about HOW You learn when you use it. “

We must keep our curiosity alive when using this tool correctly and teach it to work on how we love it. It all starts from an essential difference: there is information that makes you passive, eroding your ability to think over time, and there is information that challenges you, making you smarter by pushing you beyond your limits. This is how we should use it: as a interlocutor that helps us think differently. Otherwise, we will not understand that these tools are created by large technology companies that impose a certain ideology. They choose the data, the links between it and, above all, they treat us as clients to enjoy. If we use it this way, it will only confirm our prejudices. We will think we are right, but in reality we will not think; We will be hugged digitally. We cannot afford this numbness. This was the starting point of the book. The second challenge was how to describe what is happening now. For Gilles Deleuze, philosophy is the ability to create concepts, and today we need new ones to understand our reality. Without them, we are lost. Just watch Trump’s Gaza video – generated by him – or provocations of figures like Musk. Without rigid conceptual means, we are shipped by boat. A good philosopher creates concepts that are like keys that allow us to understand the world.

What was your goal with the new book?

The book seeks to do three things: help readers become educated, invent a new concept of this era, and be theoretical and practical at the same time. When readers discovered the truth about how the book was created, many were hurt. I’m sorry for that, but it was necessary. Some people have said, “I wish this author to exist.” Well, he did not. We need to understand that we build our narratives. If we do not do it, the distant right will monopolize narratives, create myths and we will spend our lives controlling the fact as they write stories. We cannot allow this to happen.

How did you use it to help you write this philosophical essay?

I want to clarify that he did not write the essay. Yes, I have used artificial intelligence, but not in a conventional way. I have developed a method that I teach at the European Institute of Design, based on the creation of the opposition. It is a way of thinking and using machine learning in an antagonistic way. I didn’t ask the car to write about me, but on the contrary she created ideas and then used GPT and Claude to criticize them, to give me prospects on what I had written. Everything written in the book is mine. Artificial intelligence is a tool that we need to learn to use because if we misuse it – and “misuse” involves treating it as a kind of oracle, asking it “tell me the answer to the questions of the world; explain why I exist” – then we lose our ability to think. We become stupid. Nam June Paik, an excellent artist of the 1990s, said: “I use technology in order to hate it properly.” And this is what we need to do: understand it, because if we do not, it will use us. It will become a tool that Big Tech uses to control and manipulate us. We must learn to use these tools properly; Otherwise, we will face a serious problem.