The “compound” act of transformation. The case of AI

Human action is transformative. Through this transformation, human beings reconfigure their experience in the world by creating new relationships, spaces and times. This transformative action has several conditions of possibility. The first is the human capability to imagine: if human beings did not have the capability to imagine, their action would be a repetition. Human action, however, is not an action that can cause any increase. Imagination is a critical act, that is, an act committed to recognising and evaluating the opportunities that best manifest humanity. Transformation is thus a 'compound' act in which the imagination of the possible and the evaluation of the consequences of the imagined possibility converge in a continuous balancing act. However, this balancing act is an ongoing necessity and transformation always runs the risk of not holding imagination and evaluation together. This risk has been realised in the experience of AI. Its transformation is accompanied by critical reflection that fails to keep pace with the achievements of AI. It is therefore necessary for the two acts of transformation to recover the proximity necessary for their convergence. It is essential to create experiences that exercise imagination and evaluation together: for this objective, aesthetic experience is exemplary.