Artificial intelligence and the human condition: Opposing entities or complementary forces?

Abstract

In the 21st century, artificial intelligence is constituted as a force that in many ways surpasses fiction, because in a certain way it is already present in all areas of social life, from internet search engines to determine tastes and preferences in accessing digital information, to intelligent refrigerators capable of issuing purchase orders to maintain the availability of certain foods as they run out. The aim of this essay is to analyze the possible ethical, ontological and legal issues arising from the widespread use of artificial intelligence in today’s societies, as a preliminary attempt to resolve the question posed in the title. Methodologically, it is an essay developed using written documentary sources, such as: Literary works, international press articles and refereed articles published in scientific journals. It is concluded, that AI have the potential to disrupt the lifestyles of civilization in general in many ways reaching, even, to alter the human condition in a negative way by changing its identity and genetic integrity and weakening the protagonist of people in the construction of their own realities.