What I learnt after reading “Occidente o niente” by Mario Sechi

A controversial law can have a useful effect: forcing parties and coalitions to reveal their true colours before the vote. Candidates, manifestos and alliances become more visible. This is no guarantee of good governance, but it does serve as a bulwark against ambiguity.

Artificial intelligence has learnt from our texts, but now it is we who are imposing our language on it. Amidst pre-packaged phrases, detectors and an obsession with efficiency, the real risk is losing precisely what makes a human voice recognisable

Amid terrorism, polarisation and new forms of manipulation, Western democracies appear more fragile than ever. Yet history reminds us that they have already weathered far more tangible threats, and that the ballot box has prevailed when it seemed impossible.

We keep asking ourselves which jobs artificial intelligence will ‘replace’, as if the future were to take the form of a list of professions that have been done away with. In the short term, it is perhaps more interesting to look at something less dramatic: the breakdown of work into responsibilities that can be delegated