In 1922, Ludwig Wittgestein pontified and discussed in his magnum opus Tractacus Logico-Philosophicus how far and to what extent “the limits of my language are the limits of my world”. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an unprecedented frontier of information management technologies, vowed to both mimic and inspire human intelligence. So, it deals with a pioneering language setting, imbuing, inspiring and permeating science, research, and technology, pervasively and ubiquitously impacting on economy, industry, society, sustainability, politics, and culture. Thanks to its unparalleled potentialities, AI tantalizes human imagination, projections, hopes, fears, uchronic as well utopic expectations. 

This ultimately requires novel policy lookouts, insights, and foresights, as well as pioneering philosophical discernments, aimed at nurturing innovative governance models. In fact, AI deals with an unparalleled moving frontline across science, research, and technology, involving, depicting, and anticipating known, unknown, and unpredictable potentialities and challenges.

In this light, most challenges currently stemming from progress in science, research and technology are evoking, instilling, and inspiring novel and far-reaching AI designs, developments, and achievements: however, their advances, forethoughts, insights, and foresights are vowed to stimulate, infuse, and fuel novel potentialities back into science, research, and technological innovation.

This leads to AI integration, uptake, and embedment into science, research, and technology at diverse layers: multidisciplinary, enabling different disciplines to work together, each drawing on their disciplinary knowledge; interdisciplinary, by facilitating the assimilation of knowledge and methods from diverse disciplines into a synthesis approach; transdisciplinary, by intelligizing the unison of both conceptual and intellectual frameworks beyond disciplinary approaches and perspectives.

On the one hand, by radically augmenting, expanding, and empowering science, research, and technology performance, efficiency and accuracy, AI enhances their outputs, upshots, and outcomes. On the other hand, AI empowerments could accomplish mirroring, mimicking, and finally altering almost all representations, depictions, behaviors, and symbols of human realities, either perceived or concrete, thus ultimately affecting and jeopardizing their credibility and trustworthiness.

Doing so, AI could manage to reshape, steer, and manipulate most human faculties and prerogatives such as perceiving, feeling, thinking, believing, choosing, deciding, and acting. Therefore, AI could succeed to profoundly affect and impinge on the core of human identity, self, and nature, managing to subdue, bundle, sway and maneuver their hypostases and emanations as well.

Clearly, conceiving, creating, and developing innovative and ground-breaking digital literacy models on AI for education are consequentially needed, dedicated to discriminating between AI-generated and human-created contents, henceforth demystifying AI-engendered faked, falsified, and counterfeited contents.

Therefore, designing novel, consequential, and far-reaching policy lookouts, insight, and foresights – as well as innovative and ground-breaking philosophical discernments – are essential to design innovative governance patterns: these should enable mankind to fully benefit from the undeniable AI-powered rewards, simultaneously mitigating, masterminding, and governing its potentially devastating downsides and snags.

An honest, perspicuous, and introspective conceptual reflection on the notion of intelligence shall complete the picture: it deepens the comprehension of its authentic meaning, scope, and settings, as its etymon stems from the Latin “intus legere”, i.e., inwardly reading. So, reading inwardly AI itself relativizes its enthralling prospects, alluring beliefs, and enticing mindsets.

Therefore, responsibly intelligizing a holistic and lucid assessment of both potentials and perils of AI enables portraying its most cogent mindset. That is to empower man without enhancing nor substituting what is intrinsically and inherently human: conscience, self-awareness, feelings, emotions, intellect, metaphysical thought, discernment: these typifying human faculties and prerogatives structure, imbue, and root for responsibility, enabling it to exert and wield the free will.

In this light, Immanuel Kant’s archetypical paradigm is particularly revealing, edifying, and inspiring: “the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me”.