Recensione: Claudio Paolucci, <i>Nati cyborg. Cosa l’intelligenza artificiale generativa ci dice dell’essere umano.</i> Roma: Luca Sossella editore, 2025

Fabio Ciotti

doi:10.60923/issn.2532-8816/25659

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Fabio Ciotti University of Roma Tor Vergata https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9604-5980

Fabio Ciotti teaches Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism and Theory of Literature at the University of Roma Tor Vergata. His scientific and research work covers various aspects and themes of Digital Humanities and Literary Studies, both from the theoretical and the practical point of view: the applications of computational methods to the analysis of narrative texts; digital text encoding and editing; applications of XML and TEI technologies to literary texts and corpora; modeling and creation of digital libraries; application of Semantic Web/Linked data principles and technologies to humanities digital libraries and textual corpora. On these subjects, he has written several monographs and scientific articles in peer-reviewed international journals.

Fabio Ciotti has been involved in several digital humanities projects at the national and international level, in cooperation with various institutions. He has been an organizer or member of the program committees of various national and international conferences (TEI Conference and Members Meeting 2013 and 2014; AIUCD conferences, IRCDL; DH) and Chair of the Program Committee of the DH2019 Conference (Utrecht, NL, 9-12 Jul 2019). He is Editor in Chief of the journal Umanistica Digitale.

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This review discusses Claudio Paolucci's Nati cyborg, which treats generative artificial intelligence not merely as an object of study but as a theoretical device for rethinking the notions of language, meaning, intelligence, and subjectivity. Through the theory of enunciation, Eco's encyclopedic semantics, and a critique of Floridi's «agency without intelligence», the book shows how categories developed for the human can also describe artificial systems effectively. What is at stake is moving beyond anthropocentrism toward an ontologically more inclusive theory of cognition and meaning.

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Review: Claudio Paolucci, Nati cyborg. Cosa l’intelligenza artificiale generativa ci dice dell’essere umano. Roma: Luca Sossella editore, 2025

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