The news of the alleged unauthorised access to databases of the judicial authorities by a law enforcement officer and the alleged making available of the results to newspapers has (re)produced yet another debate on the limits of (or to) investigative journalism in relation to press freedom by Andrea Monti – Initially pubished in Italian by Italian Tech. Continue reading “Free press, investigative journalism and rule of law”
Neuralink is the ante-chamber of technological discrimination
Public announcements about brain-computer interfaces and some developments in the field of genetics risk enhancing the discrimination between humans, if we do not take action, now by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Wired.it Continue reading “Neuralink is the ante-chamber of technological discrimination”
Social networks, private powers and public rights
This is an excerpt from the lecture I gave on 5 February 2022 in my Digital Law course at the University of Chieti-Pescara. A year has passed, but the analysis is still dramatically topical – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Social networks, private powers and public rights”
Is ChatGPT going to be blocked again in Italy?
It is an open secret that the Italian data protection authority is very interested in becoming the regulator for AI. They have started to appear in different areas, intervening as much as possible in the public debate. The OpenAI case is clearly part of this strategy by Andrea Monti – this is an abriged and edited version of a longer article publishe in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica Continue reading “Is ChatGPT going to be blocked again in Italy?”
Are VR Headset actually ‘cool’?
In the mind of marketing people, experiencing life through a VR headset should be ‘cool’, but —don’t ask why— I have the strong feeling that we are on the verge of making Dilbert’s cartoon real. I could not find the original image, so I used ChatGPT to make an image that conveyed the meaning.