The acceleration of artificial intelligence models is commonly interpreted as a threshold of loss: loss of human centrality, of work, of identity, of meaning. This reading, however, remains anchored to a historical conception of the human as a subject defined by operativity, function, and the necessity of self-automation in order to survive.
In this article, we seek to radically overturn that perspective. Artificial intelligence is not treated here as an agent of dehumanization, but as the catalyst of a structural liberation: the possibility, for the human species, to progressively shed the cognitive and psychic burden tied to automatism and to reactivate latent potentials that have remained inaccessible for centuries.
What is perceived today as a threat coincides, in this reading, with the end of a long evolutionary phase in which the human being was compelled to sacrifice deep dimensions of creative, contemplative, and inventive capacity to the necessity of operating, producing, and functioning. By delegating the entire domain of operativity to AI, the possibility opens for a more radical transformation: the re-emergence of the human as creator, not by role or profession, but by ontological structure.
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