What is the Difference between a School and a Cloud? Some reflections on Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Education and Artificial Intelligence

Although the notion of Artificial Intelligence is not a central topic in Peter Sloteridjk’s philosophy, his conception of “anthropotechnics” may be used to justify the development of Artificial Intelligence within the process of “anthropogenesis”, but also and most importantly to reveal its risks and limitations as far as education is concerned. Indeed, Sloterdijk opposes to Ray Kurweil’s conception of the “cloud” as one operative system of information: even if the interconnected world might one day become a non-dominant vehicle of knowledge, we are stuck today in the “Cold War” age of the postmodern era, where the diversity of “clouds” and economical forces at stake invite us to maintain a critical approach of technology.