The Impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on Humanistic Economics

The most debated and, at the same time, the most controversial topic at the beginning of this millennium is the place and role of artificial intelligence (AI) today and tomorrow, if only for the fact that it forces us to share what, until yesterday, was considered the essential and exclusive attribute of man: intelligence.In the not too distant past, the almost unanimous answer to the question of what distinguishes man from other animals was: "the fact that man possesses the faculty of thinking, in other words, that he is endowed with intelligence!".Evidently, the reaction of the "superior being" was to minimise the abstract thinking of other living creatures, categorising it as incipient, and at the same time to identify a new characteristic unique to humans: the infinitely greater capacity to adapt to changing environmental, social, etc. conditions, ultimately seen as a consequence of the same immense capacity to process information.In retrospect, we could say that "abstract thinking, and not any domination tendency, is the engine that has led to human's supremacy" (Bârsan, 2022).