The self facing its artificial mirror: Roberto García Sánchez, El Yo y el Chat: una conversación con la inteligencia artificial, fronteras y complejidad. Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Idea, 2024, 344 pp.

Abstract

The book The Self and the Chat: A Conversation with Artificial Intelligence (2024) presents itself as an intellectual artifact that is difficult to classify within traditional genres. Situated halfway between the philosophical essay, the psychological experiment, and dialogical dramaturgy, the work adopts the form of an extended conversation between a human subject and an artificial intelligence that becomes progressively humanized. This formal choice is not merely a stylistic device or a nod to current technological developments; rather, it places the text within the long tradition of dialogue as a philosophical method, from Socratic maieutics to the scholastic disputationes. However, what is staged here is not the confrontation between two human consciousnesses, but the unsettling encounter between the self and its algorithmic reflection.