From Programmability to Complexity: Genai and Algoagents between Roman Cauliflower and Ginger

The advancement of GenAI is redefining social dynamics—from the imagination to home automation—through the creation of new digital actors that interact and actively participate in the construction of social reality. This presentation explores how algoagents transcend traditional boundaries between human and machine, assuming communicative and emotional roles that profoundly influence the plasticity of the human brain and its capacity to produce epistemological structures, while simultaneously redefining the ontological boundaries of the self.

The metaphor in the title offers a field for critical reflection: the cauliflower , with its fractal configuration, symbolizes the programmability and predictability of technologies like GenAI, where every response is the result of calculated and replicable design. In contrast, the ginger root, with its rhizomatic and complex form, represents the unpredictability and richness of emerging interactions that develop when these algoagents come into contact with the human social fabric. This contrast highlights how, despite the apparent control and order of algorithmic technologies, their integration with human social and emotional reality leads to new and nuanced dynamics that challenge initial expectations.

As the result of long-term and ongoing research, this presentation, using the heuristic device of hybrid ontology, will introduce four actor categories with which human entities will share centrality in the development of social changes.