TellMeWhy 3

On September 26, I had the pleasure of participating in the third edition of TellMeWhy, the live marathon created and hosted by Leo Cascio, this year dedicated to a theme as simple to formulate as it is difficult to exhaust: “Man is an irreplaceable machine”.

Closing the morning was the panel “Technology and (is?) man – let’s try to predict the future”, along with Massimo Canducci and Elisabetta Alicino.

Almost inevitably, we started by talking about Artificial Intelligence and ended up discussing the human being.

About what we already know how to delegate to machines, how rapidly coding, image production, and creative work are changing, but above all about that boundary line that continues to shift every time a technology learns to do something that, until yesterday, we considered exclusively ours.

Perhaps this is the most interesting part of contemporary AI: it not only forces us to ask what machines will be able to do, but also to continuously redefine what we want to do.

I don’t believe much in the race between man and machine. It’s a poorly constructed race, with different competitors and a finish line that changes while we run. I am much more interested in understanding what happens when a technology becomes powerful enough to amplify human capabilities, but also pervasive enough to force us to reconsider skills, responsibilities, and even the way we attribute value to work.

That’s why I enjoyed participating in TellMeWhy: not to attempt yet another prediction about the future of AI, but to do something that, at least for now, continues to succeed quite well.

Asking questions.

The complete recording of TellMeWhy 2026 is available on YouTube. The link below starts directly from the beginning of the panel:

https://youtu.be/dBt0kcJiklY?si=28LOPvwPxcQ3CsxR&t=10689