A book about how persons and institutions mutually constitute each other, and about the challenges that the emergence of artificial agents poses to our humanity.
Kheiron explores what it means to be a person in societies dominated by complex institutions and artificial agents. It does not start from technology as its central object, but from something more basic and prior: the relationship between persons, groups and institutions, and how that relationship has been transforming —slowly, but irreversibly— the way we think, feel and live together.
The book maintains a thesis that is simple in its formulation but demanding in its consequences: institutions are not mere external instruments we use at will, but environments that shape our inner culture. They do not only regulate what we do; they also mould who we are.
