Humanizing artificial intelligence : psychoanalysis and the problem of control What does humankind expect from AI What kind of relationship between man and intelligent machine are we aiming for Does an AI need to be able to recognize human unconscious dynamics to act for the best of humans that best that not even humans can clearly define Humanizing AI analyses AI and its numerous applications from a psychoanalytical point of view to answer these questions. This important interdisciplinary contribution to the social sciences as applied to AI shows that reflecting on AI means reflecting on the human psyche and personality; therefore conceiving AI as a process of deconstruction and reconstruction of human identity. AI gives rise to processes of identification and de identification that are not simply extensions of human identities as post humanist or trans humanist approaches believe but completely new forms of identification. Humanizing AI will benefit a broad audience: undergraduates postgraduates and teachers in sociology social theory science and technology studies cultural studies philosophy social psychology and international relations. It will also appeal to programmers software designers students and professionals in the sciences. What does humankind expect from AI What kind of relationship between man and intelligent machine are we aiming for Does an AI need to be able to recognize human unconscious dynamics to act for the best of humans that best that not even humans can clearly define Humanizing AI analyses AI and its numerous applications from a psychoanalytical point of view to answer these questions. This important interdisciplinary contribution to the social sciences as applied to AI shows that reflecting on AI means reflecting on the human psyche and personality; therefore conceiving AI as a process of deconstruction and reconstruction of human identity. AI gives rise to processes of identification and de identification that are not simply extensions of human identities as post humanist or trans humanist approaches believe but completely new forms of identification. Humanizing AI will benefit a broad audience: undergraduates postgraduates and teachers in sociology social theory science and technology studies cultural studies philosophy social psychology and international relations. It will also appeal to programmers software designers students and professionals in the sciences