Algorithms, big data and artificial intelligence : a foretold nihilism?

Abstract

This paper analyzes the links between the technique in the digital era and nihilism. We challenge the announcement of a road to perfection and fulfilment through the exponential development of information and communication technologies, from the  philosophies of Nietzsche, Jünger and Heidegger. The future of a society of certainty, in which computation and planning shape the individual and collective existential spheres, resonates, in dialogue with these authors, as a technological nihilism. Artificial intelligence and its applications, understood as the great story of the 21st century generates a passive and incomplete nihilism, which replaces divine teleology with a technological prophecy, in which artificial intelligence, understood as an absolute value, leads us to the best of all possible worlds