The public debate on the use of AI is affected by an ‘ethical drift’ that diminishes the role of democratic confrontation, denies the plurality of political options and leaves the power to make critical choices in the hands of a few by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by La Repubblica – Italian Tech Continue reading “Killing me softly. The irreconcilable dilemma between ethics and war, which AI cannot solve”
Chatbots that are too human: the risks we run
The case of Character.AI and the suicide of a 14-year-old in the United States, attributed to interaction with the chatbot, sheds light on the legal consequences of the anthropomorphisation of software by Andrea Monti – Originally published on Wired.it Continue reading “Chatbots that are too human: the risks we run”
Webscraping and AI Datasets: if the purpose is in the public interest there is no copyright infringement
“The creation of a dataset … which can form the basis for the training of artificial intelligence systems, can certainly be considered scientific research … Although the creation of the dataset as such may not be immediately associated with an increase in knowledge, it constitutes an essential step for the goal of using it to subsequently acquire the knowledge in question ’ – by Andrea Monti – originally published in Strategikon – Italian Tech-La Repubblica
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Imane Khelif should be a scandal, but for an entirely different reason
The case of Imane Khelif, the Algerian boxer who is the subject of heated controversy at the Paris 2024 Olympics because as a ‘trans’ woman she cannot fight a woman should, yes, make a scandal, but not for the reasons that many are arguing by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Italian Tech – La Repubblica. Continue reading “Imane Khelif should be a scandal, but for an entirely different reason”
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”