I corpi (im)possibili dell’Intelligenza Artificiale

AI systems can have different bodies. First of all, a mechanical body, the one hosting their software, whose dimensions have been progressively reduced over time. This has allowed for a real incorporation of AI into the human body, originating hybrid corporealities — though with problematic aspects. This paper explores such corporealities (and problematic aspects), as well as the attempt of providing AI agents with human–like bodies, ranging from relevant examples of recent technological innovations to collective representations of the (im)possible bodies of AI, in order to understand the effects of meaning deriving from them, and their relations to the philosophical and semiotic reflection on corporeality.