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57Group privacy (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2016.The goal of the book is to present the latest research on the new challenges of data technologies. It will offer an overview of the social, ethical and legal problems posed by group profiling, big data and predictive analysis and of the different approaches and methods that can be used to address them. In doing so, it will help the reader to gain a better grasp of the ethical and legal conundrums posed by group profiling. The volume first maps the current and emerging uses of new data technologi…Read more
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56In defence of the veridical nature of semantic informationEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 3 (1): 0-0. 2007.This paper contributes to the current debate on the nature of semantic information by offering a semantic argument in favour of the veridical thesis according to which p counts as information only if p is true. In the course of the analysis, the paper reviews some basic principles and requirements for any theory of semantic information.
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56The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendationsAI and Society 38 (1): 283-307. 2023.In this article, we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities that AI offers in this domain: it can help improve and expand current understanding of climate change, and it can contribute to combatting the climate crisis effectively. However, the development of AI also raises two sets of problems when considering climate change: the possible exacerbation of social and ethical challenges alr…Read more
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55Time travel offers a whole new vista, or vice-versa..The Philosophers' Magazine 37 (37): 18-18. 2007.
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55The US Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 vs. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act: what can they learn from each other?Minds and Machines 32 (4): 751-758. 2022.On the whole, the US Algorithmic Accountability Act of 2022 (US AAA) is a pragmatic approach to balancing the benefits and risks of automated decision systems. Yet there is still room for improvement. This commentary highlights how the US AAA can both inform and learn from the European Artificial Intelligence Act (EU AIA).
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53Information ethics: agents, artefacts and new cultural perspectives (review)Ethics and Information Technology 8 (4): 155-156. 2006.
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47Considerazioni sull’infosfera. S&F : a colloquio con Luciano FloridiScientia et Fides 22. 2019.New developments in the field of communication and information technology will profoundly reshape the answers to questions of deep interest for humanity and philosophy. Who are we and what kind of relationship we establish among us? The boundaries between real life and virtual life tend to evanish. We are progressively becoming part of a global “infosphere”. This candid interview with professor Floridi try to shed some light on these issues, by considering the philosophical framework developed b…Read more
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44On Good and Evil, the Mistaken Idea That Technology Is Ever Neutral, and the Importance of the Double-Charge ThesisPhilosophy and Technology 36 (3): 1-5. 2023.
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42Can knowledge provide its own justification? This sceptical challenge - known as the problem of the criterion - is one of the major issues in the history of epistemology, and this volume provides its first comprehensive study, in a span of time that goes from Sextus Empiricus to Quine. After an essential introduction to the notions of knowledge and of philosophy of knowledge, the book provides a detailed reconstruction of the history of the problem. There follows a conceptual analysis of its log…Read more
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42Ethics, Governance, and Policies in Artificial Intelligence (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2021.This book offers a synthesis of investigations on the ethics, governance and policies affecting the design, development and deployment of artificial intelligence. Each chapter can be read independently, but the overall structure of the book provides a complementary and detailed understanding of some of the most pressing issues brought about by AI and digital innovation. Given its modular nature, it is a text suitable for readers who wish to gain a reliable orientation about the ethics of AI and …Read more
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40Smart Cities: Reviewing the Debate About Their Ethical ImplicationsIn Francesca Mazzi (ed.), The 2022 Yearbook of the Digital Governance Research Group, Springer Nature Switzerland. pp. 11-38. 2023.This paper considers a host of definitions and labels attached to the concept of smart cities to identify four dimensions that ground a review of ethical concerns emerging from the current debate. These are: (1) network infrastructure, with the corresponding concerns of control, surveillance, and data privacy and ownership; (2) post-political governance, embodied in the tensions between public and private decision-making and cities as post-political entities; (3) social inclusion, expressed in t…Read more
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38The logic of information: a theory of philosophy as conceptual designOxford University Press. 2019.Luciano Floridi presents an innovative approach to philosophy, conceived as conceptual design. His starting-point is that reality provides the data which we transform into information. He explores how we make, transform, refine, and improve the objects of our knowledge, and defends the radical idea that knowledge is design.
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37The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2023.This volume provides an extensive overview of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence for the Sustainable Development Goals. The authors are experts contributing with perspectives from different fields. The comprehensive collection of chapters illustrates the pressing governance problems related to using AI for the SDGs, and case studies describing how AI is advancing and can advance the achievement of the Goals. Students, scholars, and practitioners working on AI for SDGs, the ethical governance …Read more
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37Is there a philosophy of information?Topoi 35 (1): 161-171. 2016.In 2002, Luciano Floridi published a paper called What is the Philosophy of Information?, where he argues for a new paradigm in philosophical research. To what extent should his proposal be accepted? Is the Philosophy of Information actually a new paradigm, in the Kuhninan sense, in Philosophy? Or is it only a new branch of Epistemology? In our discussion we will argue in defense of Floridi’s proposal. We believe that Philosophy of Information has the types of features had by other areas already…Read more
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