The expanded loop. For an ecosystem of artificial intelligence|Il loop espanso. Per un ecosistema dell’intelligenza artificiale

This article aims to plant the seed of a possible ecosystem of artificial in-telligence, rooted in hermeneutics, beginning from a concrete proof of exis-tence: the ethical design method Endless Tuning and its implemented pro-totypes. The ethics of artificial intelligence, by recognizing the importance of vulnerability, becomes the key to the relationships within an infrastructure that includes various figures – manager, developer, ethicist, domain expert, etc. – thus orienting its design firstly on a small scale, in the relationship between the tool/agent and the operator; then expanding, acting as the center of gravity of the social context of that same relationship. According to this order, therefore, we shall proceed: ethics in interface design, the experience of the concrete application of Endless Tuning, and the description of its possible social implications. The latter will present a fictional yet realistic example – a case of medical image diagnostics – as both a possible extension and a recognition of a circular ecosystem that already partially exists.