The Inevitability of the Subjectivization of Artificial Intelligence

This contribution argues that artificial intelligence is the first technical artifact that, in the ordinary functioning of human cognition, makes the attribution of subjectivity inevitable. This attribution does not stem from an erroneous belief or user naïveté, but from the performative character of linguistic interaction, through which the presence of a subject is socially inferred. Although AI is not a subject and does not possess consciousness or intentionality, it produces linguistic outputs that activate the same cognitive inferences ordinarily reserved for human beings. This subjectivability introduces a historical discontinuity: for the first time, an artifact can occupy the position of the subject as the terminal point of attribution for decision and responsibility. The resulting effects are political, not because AI genuinely decides, but because it modifies the symbolic and institutional locus in which power and responsibility are presupposed within social systems. The original Italian text is published on Zenodo (DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18300106)