Scienza con coscienza: la riflessività sociale, per un'etica del futuro

The ambition of the new technologies is to develop fully aware machines (technological singularity) and to create situations where humans and computers could merge seamlessly, creating totally impenetrable intellectual. In other words, this would create situations where we can see ourselves in the machines and be able to experience the machine in ourselves. In this way it seems that technologies are aimed first of all to the justification and promotion of themselves; however it emerges an ethical space that demands the affirmation of human consciousness beyond the technological sphere. On the basis of these statements, the goal of this work is to consider that an ethic of principles is not readily usable in the dialogue with the current technological strength and indicate, however, the need to develop an ethic that evolves wisely and that is more adaptive to the tumultuous scientific knowledge. In this way we try to point out ethical and scientific directions useful to fill the policy vacuum situations, rebalancing the relationship between human freedom of action and the technological determinism of which man is a leading actor.