Tag Archives: Ethical issues

I gave a presentation this week to the Association of Construction Industry in Italy, ANCE, on the topic of AI. I did that on behalf of Anitec Assinform, the Italian association of Information Technology Industry that is working (among several other things) on fostering both awareness and use of Artificial …

The quest for immortality has been part of the literature for as long as we can go back in time. There were immortal entities, the Gods (some got killed and may be resurfaced …). Could humans become immortal? There have been tales of fountains of youth, tales on the first …

Would it be better to save 5 people or to save just one? I guess all things being equal it is a no brainer. However, you can also phrase this sentence is a different way: Would it be better to kill 5 pople or just one? And further: would it …

At the turn of the century a difficult ethical dilemma raged: on the one hand researchers could vastly speed up their work in leading edge medicine and cure of several ailments by using stem cells, on the other hand harvesting stem cells from embryo meant killing the embryo (or doing …

Artificial Intelligence keeps making progress thanks to broader training sets and to better use of those sets (algorithms). This leads to translation from one language to another that is ever more accurate, and to interactions with humans that is ever more undistinguishable from a human to human interaction. This is …

Artificial Intelligence can be a wonderful tool helping us in many ways but is has some dark sides as well. This is one: there is a website that you can use to upload a photo of a person (a woman, more specifically) and using AI the site will return you …

When I was a kid it used to be: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the fairest of them all? Time has gone by and now it seems that you can ask (a similar question) Artificial Intelligence to get an assessment on your “beauty”. Go on the Qoves website …

Artificial Intelligence has become an integral part of our lives. It is so intertwined and widespread that most of the time we do not realise it is there. You take a picture with your smartphone and it automatically decides what to focus on. Well, that “automatically” requires AI that inspect …

In these last few weeks I have been working on the preparation of an education course that will be published by IEEE on the topic of VR and AR roles in Smart Factories. Smart Factories (has anything that can/should be labelled as “smart”) involve knowledge and being a factory an …

For as long as we can go back in time our relation with tools has been ambivalent: on the one hand it is no brainer that they simplify our life, extend our capabilities, on the other hand it is often the case that they take away something from us (it …