Segnalo EXPLAINING THE NUCLEAR CHALLENGES POSED BY EMERGING AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY: A PRIMER FOR EUROPEAN POLICYMAKERS AND PROFESSIONALS di. A. Futter (Univ. of Leicester)* e in particolare la Sez. IV e la Sez. VI dedicate a AI e Cyber. Penso che gli informatici dovrebbero iniziare a giocare un ruolo più attivo nella discussione su queste questioni, come per altro auspicato dallo stesso Futter alla fine della Sez. IV di questo articolo: "[P]rofessionals and academics working on this topic across Europe must educate policymakers on these technologies and the risks that they involve, so that the nature and seriousness of their application in the nuclear realm is understood at the highest levels. This would probably also involve engaging the private sector where many of the most important developments in AI and automation are taking place." Buona lettura Diego (*) Autore, fra l'altro, del libro "Hacking the Bomb: Cyber Threats and Nuclear Weapons" (Gerogetown Univ. Press), del quale raccomando la lettura. -- Dott. Diego Latella - Senior Researcher CNR-ISTI, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124 Pisa, Italy (http:www.isti.cnr.it [1]) FM&&T Lab. (http://fmt.isti.cnr.it) https://www.isti.cnr.it/People/D.Latella - ph: +390506212982, mob: +39 348 8283101, fax: +390506212040 =================== The quest for a war-free world has a basic purpose: survival. But if in the process we learn how to achieve it by love rather than by fear, by kindness rather than compulsion; if in the process we learn how to combine the essential with the enjoyable, the expedient with the benevolent, the practical with the beautiful, this will be an extra incentive to embark on this great task. Above all, remember your humanity. -- Sir Joseph Rotblat I don't quite know whether it is especially computer science or its subdiscipline Artificial Intelligence that has such an enormous affection for euphemism. We speak so spectacularly and so readily of computer systems that understand, that see, decide, make judgments, and so on, without ourselves recognizing our own superficiality and immeasurable naivete with respect to these concepts. And, in the process of so speaking, we anesthetise our ability to evaluate the quality of our work and, what is more important, to identify and become conscious of its end use. […] One can't escape this state without asking, again and again: "What do I actually do? What is the final application and use of the products of my work?" and ultimately, "am I content or ashamed to have contributed to this use?" -- Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum ["Not without us", ACM SIGCAS 16(2-3) 2--7 - Aug. 1986] Links: ------ [1] http://www.isti.cnr.it