L’impossibile attribuzione di soggettività all’homo numericus

This article examines the integration of emerging technologies (AI and robotics) within the healthcare domain, highlighting their benefits while focusing on critical ethic-legal issues. Central themes include the redefinition of the physician-patient relationship attributable to computational autonomy, and the challenge posed to the adequacy of civil and criminal liability regimes (under Law No. 24/2017) in novel scenarios. This paper examines the proposal to attribute 'electronic personality' to artificial intelligence systems, highlighting the aporias it presents in light of fundamental rights and the cardinal principles of positive law. The paper suggests prioritizing the systematic interpretation of existing law before creating new legal constructs, advocating for an interdisciplinary legal analysis to balance technological innovation with the protection of fundamental rights (particularly the right to health), thereby avoiding deregulation or solutions driven solely by compensatory concerns.