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De Stefano, "Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 17, 2026

April 17, 2026

*Silicon Valley’s Anti-Democratic Turn Begins at Work * /Silicon Valley's quarrel with democracy is not abstract — it begins in the workplace, where unilateral authority is normalised. / Valerio De Stefano 16th April 2026 Peter Thiel’s recent private lecture series in Rome on the Antichrist <https://www.reuters.com/technology/thiels-secretive-rome-conference-draws-c…> should not be dismissed as another exercise in billionaire eccentricity. In unusually stark form, it condensed a worldview that is gaining influence across parts of Silicon Valley, the American right and sectors of the European far right as well. Thiel routinely invokes the spectre of a one-world government — one capable of regulating artificial intelligence or tackling climate change — as “the Antichrist”, a framing that casts democratic restraint and supranational authority as existential threats while elevating exceptional elites as the true bearers of freedom. The Rome lectures were revealing not as a cultural curiosity but as a symptom of a broader political convergence. This became especially clear at the end of last year. Around the same time that Elon Musk escalated his attacks on the European Union after regulatory action against X, and even called for the Union’s abolition <https://www.politico.eu/article/elon-musk-threatens-response-against-indivi…>, the Trump administration’s National Security Strategy denounced the EU as anti-democratic and declared that the United States should help Europe “correct its current trajectory <https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/us-strategy-document-says-europe-r…>“. What is at stake here goes well beyond a disagreement over digital-market regulation or a diplomatic quarrel. It is a struggle over private power and, more specifically, over who gets to govern the deployment of technology in our societies. As I argued in a recent keynote for FES – Future of Work <https://futureofwork.fes.de/news-list/e/labour-law-technology-and-the-attac…>, nowhere are the stakes of this confrontation between technology and democracy more visible than in the workplace: in the employment relationship, in managerial prerogative, and in the legal institutions that determine whether workers remain citizens at work or are reduced to subjects of command. [...] continua qui: https://www.socialeurope.eu/silicon-valleys-anti-democratic-turn-begins-at-…

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[Responsible AI] Responsible AI as Cultural Transformation, Nitsan Bartov, The Royal Danish Academy
by Daniele Quercia April 16, 2026

April 16, 2026

Title: Responsible AI as Cultural Transformation: Strategy and Learnings from Henning Larsen Nitsan Bartov, The Royal Danish Academy Format: 35 min talk + 25 min Q&A Join on MS Teams<https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/379094042046167?p=VhJ2pHDltaHE9aeDLL> Abstract: Artificial intelligence is often introduced into organisations through policy frameworks or technological optimisation. At Henning Larsen, a major international architecture practice, AI adoption has instead been approached as a cultural transformation - and this talk shares the strategy, steps, and learnings from that ongoing process. Over the past two years, we have developed and implemented a bottom-up AI strategy structured around four guiding principles: Literacy, Transparency, Agency, and Accountability. Through workshops conducted across seven international offices, internal experimentation, and evolving governance frameworks, we have navigated the practical realities of embedding AI into an organisation of over 650 people - from building foundational understanding to integrating AI into live design workflows. This talk draws on both that organisational experience and ongoing doctoral research on data-driven approaches to regenerative urban design. Architecture is increasingly shaped by vast and complex datasets - environmental performance, social dynamics, urban systems - and AI offers genuine promise in helping designers engage with this complexity in ways that were previously impractical. But that promise comes with risks: opaque models, uncritical trust in outputs, and the quiet narrowing of design possibility when optimisation tools begin to shape creative judgment. In a field where a single decision can influence a neighbourhood for decades, these are not abstract concerns. This talk offers both a practical framework and an honest account of what we have learned - including that responsible AI is not only about control, but about cultivating the judgment to use it well. Bio: Nitsan Bartov is an architect and Industrial PhD Fellow at Henning Larsen and The Royal Danish Academy, where he researches AI-enhanced frameworks for regenerative urban design. His work explores how artificial intelligence can be responsibly integrated into architectural and urban decision-making, with a focus on ethics, ecological impact, and long-term systemic consequences. Operating at the intersection of research and practice, he leads AI literacy initiatives within international design teams and contributes to the development of governance-aware, quality-driven AI adoption strategies in the built environment. His perspective bridges technological innovation with environmental responsibility and cultural awareness. Subscribe to future talk announcements: Anyone outside Bell Labs can receive talk announcements by subscribing to the mailing list. To subscribe, send an empty email with the subject line "Subscribe RAI” to daniele.quercia(a)polito.it

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Quando le Big Tech vanno in guerra
by de petra giulio April 15, 2026

April 15, 2026

Oggi non potrò partecipare al mercoledì di Nexa dedicato al libro di Dario Guarascio ‘Imperialismo digitale’. Contribuisco con questo testo scritto a partire dal bel libro di Dario. Fonte: CRS - Centro per la Riforma dello Stato Quando le Big Tech vanno in guerra https://share.google/k4bbphBXiUVVasVQ3

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130° Nexa Lunch Seminar | 29 aprile 2026, ore 13.00
by Nexa - Media April 14, 2026

April 14, 2026

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare al 130° Nexa Lunch Seminar che si terrà mercoledì 29 aprile, dalle ore 13.00 alle ore 14.00, con un incontro dal titolo: "Cloud pubblici e stack sovrani? Gli sviluppi della sovranità digitale in America Latina". Ospite dell'incontro: Gianmarco Cristofari (Università di Amsterdam). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli: https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-130<https://nexa.polito.it/lunch-130> Cordiali saluti, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society<https://nexa.polito.it/> DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - Torino Digital Communication Assistant DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino<https://www.dauin.polito.it/> Corso Castelfidardo 34/D - Torino mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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MEMENTO | 193° Mercoledì di Nexa | 15 aprile 2026, ore 15.00
by Nexa - Media April 13, 2026

April 13, 2026

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi ricordiamo che mercoledì 15 aprile, eccezionalmente alle ore 15.00, si terrà il 193° Mercoledì di Nexa con un incontro dal titolo "Imperialismo Digitale. Economia e guerra ai tempi delle piattaforme e dell’IA". Ospite dell'incontro: Dario Guarascio (Sapienza Università di Roma). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA dell'incontro: Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Maggiori informazioni alla pagina: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-193 Un saluto cordiale, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society<https://nexa.polito.it/> DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/A - Torino Digital Communication Assistant DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino<https://www.dauin.polito.it/> Corso Castelfidardo 34/D - Torino mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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Ci si può fidare degli agenti? (Agents of Chaos)
by Enrico Nardelli April 7, 2026

April 7, 2026

We report an exploratory red-teaming study of autonomous language-model-powered agents deployed in a live laboratory environment with persistent memory, email accounts, Discord access, file systems, and shell execution. Over a two-week period, twenty AI researchers interacted with the agents under benign and adversarial conditions. Focusing on failures emerging from the integration of language models with autonomy, tool use, and multi-party communication, we document eleven representative case studies. Observed behaviors include unauthorized compliance with non-owners, disclosure of sensitive information, execution of destructive system-level actions, denial-of-service conditions, uncontrolled resource consumption, identity spoofing vulnerabilities, cross-agent propagation of unsafe practices, and partial system takeover. In several cases, agents reported task completion while the underlying system state contradicted those reports. We also report on some of the failed attempts. Our findings establish the existence of security-, privacy-, and governance-relevant vulnerabilities in realistic deployment settings. These behaviors raise unresolved questions regarding accountability, delegated authority, and responsibility for downstream harms, and warrant urgent attention from legal scholars, policymakers, and researchers across disciplines. This report serves as an initial empirical contribution to that broader conversation. https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20021 -- -- EN https://www.hoepli.it/libro/la-rivoluzione-informatica/9788896069516.html ====================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Past President di "Informatics Europe" Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma home page: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: https://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont ====================================================== --

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193° Mercoledì di Nexa | 15 aprile 2026, ore 15.00
by Nexa - Media April 6, 2026

April 6, 2026

Gentilissime, gentilissimi, Vi invitiamo a partecipare al 193° Mercoledì di Nexa, che si terrà mercoledì 15 aprile, alle ore 15.00, con un incontro dal titolo "Imperialismo Digitale. Economia e guerra ai tempi delle piattaforme e dell’IA”. Ospite dell'incontro: Dario Guarascio (Sapienza Università di Roma). L'incontro si terrà IN PRESENZA e ONLINE. SEDE FISICA Centro Nexa su Internet e Società, Politecnico di Torino, Via Boggio 65/a, Torino (1° piano). Per accedere alla sala si raccomanda di suonare al citofono Portineria e di seguire le indicazioni segnalate lungo il percorso. QUI<https://nexa.polito.it/contatti> maggiori informazioni su come raggiungerci. STANZA VIRTUALE dell'incontro: https://didattica.polito.it/VClass/NexaEvent Di seguito maggiori dettagli: https://nexa.polito.it/mercoledi-193 Vi ringraziamo per l'attenzione, Cordiali saluti, -- Valeria Bergantino Communication Manager Nexa Center for Internet & Society<web:%20https://nexa.polito.it> DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino Via Pier Carlo Boggio, 65/a – Torino Digital Communication Assistant DAUIN - Politecnico di Torino<https://www.dauin.polito.it> Corso Castelfidardo 34/D - Torino mail: valeria.bergantino(a)polito.it<mailto:valeria.bergantino@polito.it> tel: 3473443585

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Roio, "La verifica dell’età in rete non solo non protegge i minori, ma ci mette tutti a rischio"
by J.C. DE MARTIN April 4, 2026

April 4, 2026

*La verifica dell’età in rete non solo non protegge i minori, ma ci mette tutti a rischio* /Pensata come misura di tutela, la verifica dell’età rischia di creare più problemi di quanti ne risolva, tra inefficacia, perdita di privacy e maggiore centralizzazione del controllo online / Denis "Jaromil" Roio 31 marzo 2026 I governi di mezzo mondo stanno imponendo la *verifica dell’età* <https://www.wired.it/article/verifica-delleta-spiegazione-colossi-online-de…> *per un crescente numero di servizi su Internet*, come una misura di tutela per i minori. In realtà stanno *aggravando la raccolta di dati su tutto quel che facciamo in rete*, usando argomenti che confondono la moderazione dei contenuti con il ruolo educativo di genitori e scuole. Di verifica dell’età obbligatoria per l'accesso a certi servizi di rete se ne parla da tanto. Dovrebbe servire, si dice spesso, a limitare *l'accesso dei minori alla pornografia*, al gioco d'azzardo o a contenuti particolarmente espliciti. Ma in un numero crescente di casi *i controlli si stanno estendendo* a social network, piattaforme video, servizi di messaggistica, giochi e motori di ricerca e perfino agli stessi sistemi operativi che girano su computer e telefonini. [...] continua qui: https://www.wired.it/article/verifica-eta-rete-non-protegge-minori-rischio/

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Laboratorio di Pedagogia Hacker c/o Centro Sereno Regis, 10 Aprile 2026 ore 17-19.30
by Stefano Borroni Barale April 4, 2026

April 4, 2026

Buonasera lista, ultimi posti liberi per il prossimo laboratorio di pedagogia hacker legato alla serie di conferenze "Verso la bicicletta digitale. Sfide e alternative" organizzate dal Centro Sereno Regis di Torino. Qui le informazioni e il modulo per iscriversi: https://pillole.graffio.org/pillole/verso-la-bicicletta-digitale-sfide-e-al… Buone feste, Stefano

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LLMs e copyright
by Enrico Nardelli April 3, 2026

April 3, 2026

Per chi se li fosse persi: un paio di lavori che indicano in modo abbastanza chiaro come gli LLM siano certamente delle gigantesche memorie che contengono intere opere soggette a diritto d'autore. Ciao, Enrico 1) Extracting books from production language models hmed Ahmed, A. Feder Cooper, Sanmi Koyejo, Percy Liang https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02671 Many unresolved legal questions over LLMs and copyright center on memorization: whether specific training data have been encoded in the model's weights during training, and whether those memorized data can be extracted in the model's outputs. While many believe that LLMs do not memorize much of their training data, recent work shows that substantial amounts of copyrighted text can be extracted from open-weight models. However, it remains an open question if similar extraction is feasible for production LLMs, given the safety measures these systems implement. We investigate this question ... and we measure extraction success with a score computed from a block-based approximation of longest common substring (nv-recall). With different per-LLM experimental configurations, we were able to extract varying amounts of text. ... e.g, nv-recall of 76.8% and 70.3%, respectively, for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone ... Taken together, our work highlights that, even with model- and system-level safeguards, extraction of (in-copyright) training data remains a risk for production LLMs. ---------------- 2) Xinyue Liu, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Jane C. Ginsburg, Tuhin Chakrabarty Alignment Whack-a-Mole : Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.20957 Frontier LLM companies have repeatedly assured courts and regulators that their models do not store copies of training data. They further rely on safety alignment strategies via RLHF, system prompts, and output filters to block verbatim regurgitation of copyrighted works, and have cited the efficacy of these measures in their legal defenses against copyright infringement claims. We show that finetuning bypasses these protections: by training models to expand plot summaries into full text, a task naturally suited for commercial writing assistants, we cause GPT-4o, Gemini-2.5-Pro, and DeepSeek-V3.1 to reproduce up to 85-90% of held-out copyrighted books, with single verbatim spans exceeding 460 words, using only semantic descriptions as prompts and no actual book text. ... Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of copyrighted works and that the security failures that manifest after finetuning on individual authors’ works undermine a key premise of recent fair use rulings, where courts have conditioned favorable outcomes on the adequacy of measures preventing reproduction of protected expression. -- -- EN https://www.hoepli.it/libro/la-rivoluzione-informatica/9788896069516.html ====================================================== Prof. Enrico Nardelli Past President di "Informatics Europe" Direttore del Laboratorio Nazionale "Informatica e Scuola" del CINI Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica snc - 00133 Roma home page: https://www.mat.uniroma2.it/~nardelli blog: https://link-and-think.blogspot.it/ tel: +39 06 7259.4204 fax: +39 06 7259.4699 mobile: +39 335 590.2331 e-mail: nardelli(a)mat.uniroma2.it online meeting: https://blue.meet.garr.it/b/enr-y7f-t0q-ont ====================================================== --

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