This book is the product of a longstanding professional interest in the relationships between human beings, knowledge and intelligent technologies, together with research conducted during a period of rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Interaction with these systems is changing not only how we produce texts, analyse information and make decisions, but also how we think, formulate questions, seek meaning and construct new knowledge. The book is devoted to these changes and to the conditions under which they arise.

The subject of the present study is the interaction between human beings and AI systems. This interaction is viewed as a new space in which qualitatively different cognitive, emotional and creative processes can unfold. The focus is not on the technologies and algorithms themselves, but on the dynamics and outcomes of this interaction.