Fruitful collaboration or intellectual impotence?: the case of Jianwei Xun, the philosopher created with AI who deceived everyone

What does it say about the world that we live the incredible story of the book created with Artificial Intelligence? Ingrid Sarchman, Nicolás Mavrakis and Margarita Martínez talked with Infobae Culture

An essay on the mechanisms of power in the digital age, signed by Hong Kong "philosopher Jianwei Xun", was actually created by Artificial Intelligence.

World, Apr 08, 2025 (ATB Digital).- In “Hipnocracy”, the Chinese philosopher Jianwei Xun reveals the mechanisms by which power operates in the age of digital perception. But Xun does not exist. Jianwei Xun, hailed by his incisive analysis of digital consciousness, cited in conferences, discussed in seminars and praised as visionary by experts of multiple disciplines became a compelling reference to contemporary media thinking. But there was one …

Hong Kong philosopher Jianwei Xun, author of the successful book Hypnocracy, an essay on the mechanisms of power in the digital age, does not exist, but is the result of artificial intelligence (IA), in an operation orchestrated by Italian writer Andrea Colamedici, as revealed by an article published in the last issue of the Italian weekly L'Espresso collected by EFE. The book, the subject of debate in various forums, had attracted the attention…

The acclaimed Hong Kong writer and philosopher Jianwei Xun, inscribed in the wake of Jean Baudrillard and author of the book Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk and the new architecture of reality, does not really exist and is only “the fruit of a co-creation between academic Andrea Colmedici and artificial intelligence (IA).” This was revealed by Italian journalist Sabina Minardi, after investigating the references and connections of the alleged author, as…

Xun was presented as the author of "Hipnocracy: Trump, Musk and the new architecture of reality", a work that received media and academic attention, being translated into Spanish by Editorial Rosameron. The post Cited in seminars and translated into Spanish: the story of Jianwei Xun, the Chinese “philosopher” who turned out to be an artificial intelligence experiment appeared first on Fast Check .