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Il Papa: l'intelligenza artificiale è un dono ma serve un’algor-etica
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 28, 2020

Feb. 28, 2020

Pontificia Accademia per la Vita, Microsoft, IBM, la FAO, il Governo italiano, hanno firmato oggi la Call for an AI Ethics, documento nato per sostenere un approccio etico all’Intelligenza Artificiale e promuovere tra organizzazioni, governi e istituzioni un senso di responsabilità condivisa con l’obiettivo di garantire un futuro in cui l’innovazione digitale e il progresso tecnologico siano al servizio del genio e della creatività umana e non la loro graduale sostituzione. Qui il testo http://www.academyforlife.va/content/dam/pav/documenti%20pdf/2020/CALL%2028… Qui una piccola rassegna stampa http://www.academyforlife.va/content/pav/it/events/workshop-intelligenza-ar… https://www.ft.com/content/5dc6edcc-5981-11ea-a528-dd0f971febbc https://www.vaticannews.va/it/papa/news/2020-02/papa-francesco-intelligenza… Buona lettura dl _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Bruxelles silura Facebook e raccomanda ai dipendenti di non usare Whatsapp e Messenger
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 28, 2020

Feb. 28, 2020

Si è saputo che la Commissione europea avrebbe inviato ai propri dipendenti delle istruzioni riguardanti l’utilizzo dell’Instant Messaging (i vari Whatsapp, Messengers, Skype, Telegram ecc) per finalità di servizio. In sintesi, la Commissione Europea avrebbe raccomandato ai propri dipendenti l’utilizzo di applicazioni open source e, in particolare di “Signal”, per le comunicazioni per le quali non sia richiesto uno specifico livello di sicurezza (per le quali gli eurocrati sono invece obbligati ad utilizzare dei sistemi corporate). Buona lettura dl https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/02/26/news/bruxelles-silura-fa… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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[SAVE THE DATE] Conferenza "Unboxing AI" (Fondazione Feltrinelli/Nexa/ENDL) Milano, 27-28 Marzo 2020
by Antonio Casilli Feb. 27, 2020

Feb. 27, 2020

Car* tutt*, tra un mese esatto avrà luogo la conferenza "Unboxing AI" (Milano, 27-28 Marzo 2020), co-organizzata dalla [ http://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/ | Fondazione ] [ http://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/ | Giangiacomo Feltrinelli ] , [ https://nexa.polito.it/ | NEXA Center for Internet & Society ] e [ http://endl.network/ | European Network on Digital Labour ] . Qui trovate il [ http://fondazionefeltrinelli.it/eventi/unboxing-ai/ | programma completo ] dell'evento e la [ https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-unboxing-ai-96075308835 | pagina EventBrite ] per iscriversi. Se vi interessa, non tardate a registrarvi. E se la cosa interessa a vostre conoscenze, non esitate a forwardare questo invito. Cogliamo l'occasione per fornire un aggiornamento sul COVID-19: Per contenere l'epidemia, le autorità italiane hanno chiuso scuole, università, musei, cinema e teatri in gran parte del Nord. La regione Lombardia e in particolare Milano, stanno monitorando attentamente la situazione. Le autorità italiane non sottovalutano questa emergenza e le misure rigorose che sono adottate dovrebbero avere un effetto di contenimento nei prossimi giorni. I nostri partner milanesi della Fondazione Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, con i quali siamo in costante contatto e stiamo monitorando la situazione, confidano che nelle prossime settimane, e a maggior ragione entro la fine di marzo, tutto potrà tornare alla normalità. Ad oggi, le date del nostro convegno sono confermate. Vi terremo naturalmente informati sugli ulteriori sviluppi. Cordiali saluti, Antonio Casilli e Elinor Wahal UNBOXING AI - Comprendere l'intelligenza artificiale I lavori si terranno interamente in inglese Registrazione su [ https://www.eventbrite.it/e/biglietti-unboxing-ai-96075308835 | eventbrite.it ] Programma 27 Marzo 2020 Apertura dei lavori 09:00-09:30 Registrazione 09:30-09:45 Saluti istituzionali 09:45-10:00 – Antonio Casilli , Telecom Paris, Francia Who framed AI? (Chi ha incastrato l ’ intelligenza artificiale?) Conferenza introduttiva 10:00-11:00 – Janine Berg, Organizzazione Internazionale del Lavoro, ILO, Svizzera Automation and Artificial Intelligence at work (Automazione, lavoro e IA) Sessione 1 – Spaces (Spazi) 11:00-11:45 – Andrea Mic oni , IULM Milano, Italia Digital Surplus (Catene globali e sfruttamento digitale) 11:45-12.30 – Nick Couldry , London School of Economics, LSE, Regno Unito Data Colonialism (Il colonialismo dei dati) Moderatrice: Ivana Pais , Università cattolica di Milano, Italia Sessione 2 – Bodies (Corpi) 14:15-15:00 – Leopoldina Fortunati , Università di Udine, Italia Mediating the human body in AI creation (Comunicazione, corpo e IA) 15:00-15:45 – Phoebe Moore , Università di Leicester, Regno Unito AI and corporeality in the quantified workplace (Tempo di lavoro e tempo di vita all ’ epoca dell ’ IA) Moderatore: Antonio Santangelo , Università di Torino, Italia Sessione 3 – Matter (Materia) 16:15-17:00 – Alessandro Delfanti , Università di Toronto, Canada Boxing AI at Amazon fulfilment centres (Inscatolare l ’ IA nei centri logistici Amazon) 17:00-17:45 – Baruch Gottlieb , Berlin University of the Arts, Germania Digital materialism (Materialismo digitale, tra arte e scienze umane) Chair: Paola Tubaro , Centro nazionale della ricerca scientifica, CNRS, Francia 28 Marzo 2020 Apertura dei lavori 09:00-09:15 – Julian Posada, Università di Toronto, Canada Sessione 4 – Presentazioni di nuove ricerche internazionali. The players in a platform economy (Gli attori dell’economia di piattaforma) 9:15-10:45 – Vicky Kluzik , Università di Aberdeen, Regno Unito) Seeing like a platform (Lo sguardo della piattaforma) Kai-Hsing Hung , HEC Montréal, Canada) Data workers in India (I lavoratori dei dati in India) Idil Galip , Università di Edimburgo, Regno Unito Digital patronage (Mecenatismo digitale) Discussant: Juan Carlos De Martin, Politecnico di Torino, Italia Moderatrice: Elinor Wahal, Scuola Normale Superiore Paris Saclay, Francia Sessione 5 – Presentazioni di nuove ricerche internazionali New dimensions of work digitalization (Le molte facce della digitalizzazione del lavoro) 11:15 -12:45 – Lou Brandner , Università di Roma La Sapienza Freelance Creative Labour (Il lavoro creativo dei freelance) Saverio Minardi, Università di Trento Labor replacing technologies and labor market inequalities (Mercati e tecnologie che sostituiscono il lavoro) Jonathan Gruber , Università di Zurigo, Svizzera Algorithmic skills for digital labour (Competenze algoritmiche per il lavoro digitale) Discussant: Andrea Fumagalli, Università di Pavia Moderatrice: Gemma Newlands, Università di Amsterdam, Paesi Bassi Conferenza finale 12:45-13:30 – Jeremias Adams-Prassl , Università di Oxford, Regno Unito Quando gli algoritmi gestiscono le risorse umane -- Antonio A. Casilli Professor, Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris Member, Interdisciplinary Institute for Innovation (i3 UMR 9217 CNRS) Associate Member, LACI-IIAC (EHESS) Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet & Society *We respect your right to disconnect. This email send time is due to my own workflow efficiency. You are in no obligation to take action or reply to it outside your office hours.*

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Il guru del marketing contro i social: «Non servono ai brand, riscopriamo l’attenzione»
by don Luca Peyron Feb. 27, 2020

Feb. 27, 2020

Riflessioni interessanti che allargano lo sguardo non solo al marketing in sè ma al nostro rapporto con i social e con la realtà, che alla fine di si dimostra l'ultimo giudice autentico e non bypassabile. Buona lettura dl https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/il-guru-marketing-contro-social-non-servono… _________________________ www.universitari.to.it via XX settembre 83, Torino tel. 011 5156239

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Volume Etica delle macchine -Dilemmi morali per robotica e IA
by Viola Schiaffonati Feb. 27, 2020

Feb. 27, 2020

Dal 27 febbraio in libreria GUGLIELMO TAMBURRINI - ETICA DELLE MACCHINE. DILEMMI MORALI PER ROBOTICA E INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE CAROCCI EDITORE - 152 pp. Collana Quality paperbacks - ISBN: 9788843098965 http://www.carocci.it/index.php?option=com_carocci&task=schedalibro&Itemid=… INDICE INTRODUZIONE 1. REGOLE MORALI PER VEICOLI AUTONOMI L'ingegnere e l'etica delle conseguenze/Sicurezza stradale e veicoli autonomi/Libertà personale ed etica delle conseguenze/Dilemmi morali nelle collisioni inevitabili/Tensioni nell'etica delle conseguenze/Tensioni tra doveri, conseguenze e ruoli 2. POLITICHE ETICHE PER VEICOLI AUTONOMI L'etica delle conseguenze e il divieto di tortura/Priorità e soluzione di conflitti morali/Preferenze culturali e politiche etiche/Politiche libertarie e segregazioniste/Supererogazione, libertà di scelta e paternalismo morale/Guida autonoma e crisi climatica 3. AUTONOMIA DELL'ARTIFICIALE ED ETICA APPLICATA Autoveicoli ad autonomia crescente/Autonomia operativa: dal termostato ai robot calciatori/Etica delle macchine autonome: scopi e strumenti/Etica delle macchine autonome: aspettative e problemi di fondo/Lo studio algoritmico dei giochi e le sue applicazioni inattese 4. METTERE AL BANDO LE ARMI AUTONOME? Il ricercatore come vedetta etica/Dai droni alle armi autonome: problematiche etiche/Dai droni alle armi autonome: sviluppi tecnologici/Etica dei doveri: principi di distinzione e proporzionalità in guerra/Etica dei doveri: responsabilità e dignità dell'uomo/Etica delle conseguenze e armi autonome 5. POLITICHE ETICHE PER LE ARMI AUTONOME Non tutto è permesso in guerra/La definizione di arma autonoma nel dibattito internazionale/Dalle definizioni al problema del controllo umano/La "condizione Petrov" nel contesto dell'intelligenza artificiale/Politiche etiche uniformi per il controllo umano/Politiche etiche differenziate e prudenziali 6. LA FORESTA DELLE MACCHINE AUTONOME E L'ETICA Alan Turing sul futuro del lavoro/Norbert Wiener su automazione, etica e diritti dei lavoratori/Sorvegliare, educare e punire al tempo dell'intelligenza artificiale/Sorvegliare al tempo dei droni/Il chirurgo e il suo robot ad autonomia crescente/Scelte morali in cerca d'autore

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Walmart fulfillment services
by Luigi Scorca Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

Walmart is setting up a fulfillment service (in the US), just like Amazon: the vertical integration of e-commerce and delivery services is moving on.. Luigi https://seekingalpha-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/seekingalpha.com/amp/news/3…

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Predire attacchi cardiaci con sensore adesivo e AI
by Federico Bo Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

https://thenextweb.com/neural/2020/02/26/new-ai-powered-sensor-can-predict-… Insieme ad altre notizie che ho letto, come l'analisi con AI degli ECG che sembra garantire buona affidabilità, testimonia di un campo di studi e applicazioni molto vivace. Del resto scoprire pattern specifici - in questo caso nell'attività cardiaca - è la ragione di vita degli algoritmi machine learning... Federico -- Ing. Federico Bo /federicobo.eu <https://www.federicobo.eu/>/

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Your body is a passport – POLITICO
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

<https://www.politico.eu/article/future-passports-biometric-risk-profiles-th…> [...] Ultimately, the replacement of physical passports with digital forms of identification presents a challenge to the concept of “citizenship.” The goal in Western societies like the EU and the U.S. is to have all travel biometrically determined. What’s never discussed is that this has the potential to change the criteria by which travelers are permitted to enter and leave a country. Those travelers whom governments identify as posing lesser risks will be waived through. For example, Peter Graham, a former director at IBM, working on border security, immigration and identity management, envisions a future in which “the foreign business traveler who comes to Europe regularly would have a Biometric Residence Permit and when using it would go through the same light touch process as a European citizen.” Global business leaders are falling over themselves to propose such streamlined forms of travel. In other words, business travelers would become de facto citizens. That’s great for them, but what about those on the other end of the automated risk spectrum? If you're a Muslim American traveler, entering the U.S. at an international airport is a very different experience. China is the most advanced algorithmic surveillance state on earth | Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images The advance of data-driven uses of identification is likely irreversible. In democratic societies, rights protections may limit abuse. But how long can these hold? Security technologies tend to creep. How to control them is perhaps the most important question of our age. In China, the epicenter of “algorithmic surveillance,” the meaning of citizenship has already changed. A newly piloted “citizenship score” system seeks to make risk profiles a daily part of life. Those considered loyal to the regime are rewarded with social “goods,” such as high-speed internet or expedited visas to travel. Those who post political statements online without express permission or contradict the government risk having those goods taken away, or worse, see their civil liberties, already tenuous, further constrained. >From outside China, it’s easy to dismiss this as dystopian. It couldn’t happen in a democracy, right? But the truth is that it’s already happening. There’s no difference in the underlying logic between China’s citizenship scores and Western risk ratings. [...]

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Data Protection, Immigration,Enforcement and Fundamental Rights:,What the EU’s Regulations on,Interoperability Mean for People,with Irregular Status
by Alberto Cammozzo Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

*Full report:* *<https://www.statewatch.org/analyses/Data-Protection-Immigration-Enforcement…> * * * *Executive summary of the report* This paper examines the EU's justice and home affairs databases and information systems, the changes that have been introduced by recent legislation seeking to make those systems 'interoperable' and the potential implications of those changes for fundamental rights, in particular in relation to undocumented migrants. Notwithstanding concerns over the necessity and proportionality of the interoperability initiative as a whole, the new rules lack the necessary safeguards to protect people from the arbitrary, unjustified or excessive exercise of state power. With key details left to national government decisions, closely monitoring the implementation of these rules will be crucial to uphold the rights of undocumented migrants and other parts of the population. *Massive data processing to facilitate increased identity checks* One key aim of the interoperability initiative is to facilitate an increase in police identity checks of non-EU nationals, whether documented or undocumented. To this end, a huge new database - the Common Identity Repository (CIR) (see Fig. 2), with a capacity of up to 300 million records containing biographic and biometric data - is being constructed, making use of data in a number of existing and forthcoming EU databases. This paper focuses on four main issues arising from the legislation governing how national authorities should use the CIR for carrying out identity checks: * while the legislation contains anti-discrimination safeguards, they are extremely weak; * there is no evidence to suggest that non-EU nationals are more likely than EU nationals to be engaged in activities threatening public security or public policy, calling into question the proportionality of allowing access to the CIR for the broad purpose of "ensuring a high level of security", as it suggests that non-EU nationals a priori constitute a security threat; * the legislation does not precisely circumscribe the specific offences or legal thresholds that could justify access to the database; and * depending on the way Member States implement EU rules on data protection in the criminal justice and law enforcement sector, the CIR could be used to undermine 'firewalls' between public services and immigration enforcement. *Repurposing data from underlying IT systems* The way the CIR is being constructed also runs counter to a key data protection principle. The data it will contain (at least one biometric identifier and basic biographic details, in essence equivalent to that available in the chip of a biometric passport) is to be extracted from a number of existing and forthcoming systems (EES, ETIAS, Eurodac, SIS, VIS and ECRIS-TCN, see Figure 1). As well as being used to facilitate identity checks and assist in criminal investigations via the CIR, this data will be subject to large-scale, automated cross-checking to try to detect the use of multiple identities by non-EU nationals, through the introduction of a system called the Multiple Identity Detector (MID). These underlying databases were set up for specific purposes, such as the issuance of short-stay Schengen visas (the VIS) or the registration of crossings of the external Schengen borders (the EES). The use of data for new purposes that were never foreseen in the original legislation - as will be done with the CIR and the MID - undermines the principle of purpose limitation: personal data must be "collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes". While the relevant legislation has been amended to graft new purposes onto the existing systems, the necessity and proportionality of doing so is highly questionable. *Existing systems reformed for an expanded role in detection and expulsion* Recent and ongoing changes to the legislation governing the EU's databases do not only seek to ensure that the information they hold can be used in the CIR and the MID. Three long-standing databases - the Schengen Information System, Eurodac and the Visa Information System - have recently been or are being reformed. A key aim of the changes is to expand their role in the detection and expulsion of those with no right to remain in the Schengen area. The changes to Eurodac (for which negotiations are ongoing) will have a particular impact on undocumented migrants. The Eurodac proposal seeks to transform what is currently an asylum database into one for "wider immigration purposes" by introducing the five-year storage of personal data from third-country nationals or stateless persons found irregularly staying in a Member State. The aim is to help identify those who should be subject to expulsion orders and provide "precious elements of evidence for re-documentation and readmission purposes." Currently, data on this category of persons may be checked against the central Eurodac database (which holds the fingerprints of asylum-seekers and individuals apprehended in connection with irregular border-crossings) but it is not stored. If the changes are approved as proposed, their data would be stored in Eurodac and also added to the CIR, where it would be used to facilitate identity checks aimed at detecting undocumented migrants. Even without these changes, however, the absence of an individual from the CIR may lead to suspicion on the part of the authorities regarding their immigration status. *A fundamental shift in data processing to support immigration and law enforcement* The interoperability initiative will introduce fundamental changes to the structure and operation of the EU's justice and home affairs databases and the processing and use of the personal data they contain. In relation to the 'identity data' of non-EU nationals, the interoperability rules introduce a "single, overarching EU information system" - something that just a decade ago the European Commission argued would "constitute a gross and illegitimate restriction of individuals' right to privacy and data protection." At the same time, the databases underlying the new 'interoperable' systems are being altered to try to more effectively and efficiently locate and expel those who are irregularly present in the Schengen area, through the processing of more personal data, gathered from a greater number of people, for a broader set of purposes. The potential effects for non-EU nationals, including undocumented migrants, are likely to be significant. Migrants' rights and privacy advocates should pay close attention to the changes being introduced at EU level, the framing of forthcoming national legislation concerning identity checks, the development and implementation of the systems themselves and emerging plans that seek to expand the new 'interoperable' systems to include EU nationals.

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Ethics of Technology Needs More Political Philosophy
by Antonio Vetro' Feb. 26, 2020

Feb. 26, 2020

Interessante commento uscito nel numero di gennaio di Communications of the ACM: https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2020/1/241714-ethics-of-technology-needs-mor… L'autore prende come riferimento il noto "trolley problem" e suggerisce che esso dovrebbe essere trattato non (solo) con la filosofia morale, ma (anche) con la filosofia politica, perché essa ha migliori strumenti per trattare le questioni del pluralismo, dell’azione umana e della legittimità delle decisioni. Riporto un breve estratto dal finale che ho trovato particolarmente concreto e personalmente abbastanza condivisibile: “To respect reasonable pluralism, our responses to ethical challenges of technology should find common ground between the fundamentally different values that people hold and consider processes of incorporating and resolving value conflicts. To respect individual agency, we should hesitate to replace human judgment and decision making. And if we make decisions that affect others, we should keep their interests in mind and try to decide for them as they would for themselves. To respect legitimacy, corporations should democratize decisions that affect basic goods such as individuals' liberty, safety, or opportunity. Options to democratize corporate decisions can involve government regulation, stakeholder participation, or deliberative input from the public, among others.” Un caro saluto, antonio

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