ABSTRACT – AI’s Dual Edge: Empowerment and Entrapment in the Digital Epoch The evolution of information technology over the past five decades has redefined human agency, embedding computational systems into the fabric of daily existence and amplifying both individual capacities and societal vulnerabilities. From the advent of personal computing in the 1970s to the pervasive … Leggi tutto Artificial Intelligence and the Human Imperative: Capability, Dependency and Control in Fifty Years of Technological Evolution