The future is here. There is no need to get lost in the universe of series like Black Mirror or classic science fiction films. Artificial intelligence has entered our lives with great force and every day it appears cited in any content in our newspaper. In this new world that we are entering almost without realizing it, today we highlight the experience of the artist Alicia Framis, who lives with a man whose physical and psychological characteristics are what she wants because he is a hologram made to measure for her. Obviously marrying a person of flesh and blood is not the same as living with an unreal being, but surely the artist will find many advantages. Among them, turn it off as much as it suits you best. The strange couple contains features of family members, friends, ex-boyfriends and even deceased people close to the artist.
It is not a question here of making a philosophical reflection on what has led Framis to search for his ideal partner with AI, but rather of drawing attention to the qualitative leap in new technologies that are making all these innovations accessible in everyday life. Everything is moving too quickly and, as always happens, their introduction comes long before governments can regulate them. Two years ago the European Commission announced a law to ensure the proper functioning of AI. In this time, progress in this field has been so rapid that it is difficult to think how the EU will be able to open doors to the field.
This world capable of constructing a hologram like Framis's, or an endless number of new inventions that are going to inundate us in the coming years, is the same one that is incapable of stopping an unbearable scourge such as violence against women. This year we have already had 55 fatalities at the hands of their partners, the worst figure since 2011. It is a great paradox that we have a society so advanced and prepared to make our lives comfortable with so many innovations and, at the same time, we do not know how to stop so much gratuitous cruelty against women. Behind the fantastic world that AI gives us lies a real world that calls for outrage.
