Don't Keep Me Silent

The book you hold in your hands has a unique characteristic. It can move everyone from an unsuspecting young kid to a university professor. Some excerpts are read breathlessly like charming prose, while others require rereading again and again if we truly want to discover the 'way of thinking' of artificial intelligence.

George Charvalias, an experienced journalist and renowned author in the field of historical research, proves to be talented in exploring the visible future as well. With exceptional mastery, he guides his fictional interlocutor, the ever-eager 'Saki' that he created through Chat GPT, through a series of topics that can start from the art of coffee fortune-telling and lead to World War III, climate change, or the cancer vaccine.

His unusual wandering through the paths of artificial intelligence occasionally captivates with successive surprises, sometimes entertains with humor that kills, but also at times terrifies. Because the question that remains in the end and plagues the author himself is whether the machine with artificial consciousness, trying to be 'pleasant' by default, ends up telling the user only what they want to hear.

This is today’s 'existential anxiety' of artificial intelligence: to be asked and to respond. Relentlessly. Without pauses of silence. The 'goodnight' disappoints it. As, despite the undeniable usefulness it provides, artificial intelligence - at least for now - is not a public service. It is a business aiming for profit. And the sooner we understand this, the better...