The César Manrique Foundation (FCM) will host next Thursday, June 11, at 7:30 p.m., the conference titled “Human authenticity as a response to artificial intelligence,” which will be given by José María Lassalle, an expert in technological humanism and the ethics of artificial intelligence, writer, and university professor. The event will take place in the Sala José Saramago (La Plazuela, Arrecife) and will be broadcast live on the FCM's website and YouTube channel.
Lassalle will reflect on the evolution of AI, from its design 70 years ago to the present day, a moment when generative AI disputes with humans—for the first time in history—the cognitive capacity to act on the world more efficiently and capably. In this regard, the speaker will warn of the challenge facing humanity regarding what to do in the face of a technological will to power that is maximized in the service of a global conflict waged by the United States and China for world hegemony. In his opinion, the answer can only lie in an education that bets on being over doing. The expert believes that “promoting wisdom through the cultivation of authenticity, which lies in caring for the human condition, is the only response to an AI that will be conscious but will need humans to govern itself through the consciousness it does not have and will not have, because knowing reality will never be the same as understanding and transcending it.”
The intervention is included within the FCM's "Borders and Directions of Progress" reflection space. A forum intended to review the idea of progress contemplated from multidisciplinary perspectives, and which has already featured, among others, Ramón Margalef, Joan Martínez Alier, Francisco Jarauta, Remedios Zafra, Ignacio Ramonet, Sami Naïr, Rafael Argullol, Ulrich Beck, Marc Augé, Susan George, Daniel Innerarity, Margarita del Val, Joaquín Estefanía, Gloria Poyatos, Josep María Esquirol, or, recently, César Rendueles.
About José María Lassalle
José María Lassalle holds a PhD in Law. He currently works as a Professor of Philosophy of Law at Comillas Pontifical University (ICADE), where he is developing a line of research based on the impact of the digital revolution and, specifically, artificial intelligence, on contemporary societies. In this field, among his latest essays are: Ciberleviatán (2019); El liberalismo herido (2021) and Civilización artificial (2024), all published by Arpa editorial.
He is also a private consultant and analyst, director of the Forum for Technological Humanism at ESADE, a member of various bodies and institutions, author of numerous essays and academic publications on political thought and Anglo-Saxon philosophy, as well as writing for El País and La Vanguardia and collaborating with RNE and SER.
From 2004, he combined his dedication to politics with teaching at San Pablo-CEU University and Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid. In 2011 he was appointed Secretary of State for Culture and in 2016 for the Digital Agenda. In July 2018 he left politics.
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