Meaning vs. Calculation: Toward a Pedagogy of Communication in the Age Artificial Intelligence

The advent of Artificial Intelligence marks a major ontological shift in the history of ideas. Without fanfare, we have slipped from an information society-originally structured by public debate-into a data society, ruthlessly governed by behavioral data extraction and mathematical optimization. This book deconstructs the harmful myth of technological neutrality. It rigorously demonstrates how algorithmic black boxes have become the new invisible gatekeepers, exploiting scandal to capture attention, trapping citizens in suffocating filter bubbles, and automating humanity's worst prejudices. Faced with the danger of communication reduced to a machine-generated simulacrum, this book advocates for a radical repoliticization of code. It calls for algorithmic literacy to be established as a fundamental skill in business schools, in order to forge decision-makers with a sharp critical mind, capable of reminding computational power of an unalterable civilizational truth: to inform is not to compute.