Everyone says it and there is no doubt: artificial intelligence is not only the greatest challenge of the future, but of everyday life. Daily understood as everyday life – AI is already among us even when we don't see it – and also as a means of information, that is, that medium, paper or digital, that you have before your eyes at this precise moment. In 1974 – when our newspaper was born – AI did not exist. Or rather: someone – a handful of visionaries dispersed throughout the universities of the United States – had started dreaming about it for at least ten years. Someone else had turned it into a bestselling dystopian nightmare, with frightening and surprising results. But it was a matter that related to science fiction and the dreamlike, certainly not to reality. However, yesterday as today, there existed a human stupidity in which a dangerous conformism germinated that has survived all political changes and any technological revolution. And, yesterday as today, this newspaper acted as a powerful barrier to every form of cultural hegemony, starting from that hateful intellectual sloppiness which only years later would be baptized as politically correct. Freedom of thought and criticism and the quality of information cannot be defeated by any algorithm or replaced by any artificial intelligence. It is our DNA that makes us non-replaceable with machines, even the most sophisticated ones.
For this reason, today as yesterday, always with the same spirit, we look without fear to the challenges of tomorrow.