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AIES '18: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (edited book). 2018.
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100The Promise of Ideo-logic, the Psycho-Epistemic Organization of Socio-Symbolic SystemsInternational Journal of Žižek Studies 18 (1): 1-15. 2024.The aim of this work is to develop a comparative analysis of the discursive structures that underlie the socialized formation of the interpretative paradigms of reality. We analyse how both political ideologies and the so-called “conspiracy theories” can be understood starting from the structure and functioning of Marc Augè's ideo-logic, namely the systemic-discursive device that defines the field of all possible sentences defining the real.
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3Hybrid societies - Living with Social RobotsRoutledge. 2024.This book explores how social robots and synthetic social agents will change our social systems and intersubjective relationships. It is obvious that technology influences societies. But how, and under what conditions do these changes occur? This book provides a theoretical foundation for the social implications of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics. It starts from philosophy of technology, with a focus on social robotics, to systematically explore the concept of socio- technical change. …Read more
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25Hybrid Ethics for Generative AI: Some Philosophical Inquiries on GANsHumana Mente 16 (44). 2023.Until now, the mass spread of fake news and its negative consequences have implied mainly textual content towards a loss of citizens' trust in institutions. Recently, a new type of machine learning framework has arisen, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) – a class of deep neural network models capable of creating multimedia content (photos, videos, audio) that simulate accurate content with extreme precision. While there are several areas of worthwhile application of GANs – e.g., in the fiel…Read more
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239Sociomorphing and an Actor-Network Approach to Social RoboticsIn Raul Hakli, Pekka Makela & Johanna Seibt (eds.), Social Robots in Social Institutions, Robophilosophy 2022, Ios Press. pp. 508-517. 2023.Most of human-robot interaction (HRI) research relies on an implicit assumption that seems to drive experimental work in interaction studies: the more anthropomorphism we can reach in robots, the more effective the robot will be in 'being social.' The notion of 'sociomorphing' was developed in order to challenge the assumption of ubiquitous anthropomorphizing. This paper aims to explore the notion of sociomorphing by analysing the possibilities offered by actor-network theory (ANT). We claim tha…Read more
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53SAT: a methodology to assess the social acceptance of innovative AI-based technologiesJournal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 1 (In press). 2022.Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the conceptual model of an innovative methodology (SAT) to assess the social acceptance of technology, especially focusing on artificial intelligence (AI)-based technology. Design/methodology/approach After a review of the literature, this paper presents the main lines by which SAT stands out from current methods, namely, a four-bubble approach and a mix of qualitative and quantitative techniques that offer assessments that look at technology as a …Read more
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506Alienation and Recognition - The Δ Phenomenology of the Human–Social Robot InteractionTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 26 (1): 147-171. 2022.A crucial philosophical problem of social robots is how much they perform a kind of sociality in interacting with humans. Scholarship diverges between those who sustain that humans and social robots cannot by default have social interactions and those who argue for the possibility of an asymmetric sociality. Against this dichotomy, we argue in this paper for a holistic approach called “Δ phenomenology” of HSRI. In the first part of the paper, we will analyse the semantics of an HSRI. This is wha…Read more
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333Maximizing team synergy in AI-related interdisciplinary groups: an interdisciplinary-by-design iterative methodologyAI and Society 1 (1): 1-10. 2022.In this paper, we propose a methodology to maximize the benefits of interdisciplinary cooperation in AI research groups. Firstly, we build the case for the importance of interdisciplinarity in research groups as the best means to tackle the social implications brought about by AI systems, against the backdrop of the EU Commission proposal for an Artificial Intelligence Act. As we are an interdisciplinary group, we address the multi-faceted implications of the mass-scale diffusion of AI-driven te…Read more
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242The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental SetupInternational Journal of Social Robotics (Online): 1-14. 2022.In this paper we present a theoretical framework to understand the underlying psychological mechanism involved in human-Companion Robot interactions. At first, we take the case of Sexual Robotics, where the psychological dynamics are more evident, to thereafter extend the discussion to Companion Robotics in general. First, we discuss the differences between a sex-toy and a Sexual Robots, concluding that the latter may establish a collusive and confirmative dynamics with the user. We claim that t…Read more
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705How Robots’ Unintentional Metacommunication Affects Human–Robot Interactions. A Systemic ApproachMinds and Machines 31 (4): 487-504. 2021.In this paper, we theoretically address the relevance of unintentional and inconsistent interactional elements in human–robot interactions. We argue that elements failing, or poorly succeeding, to reproduce a humanlike interaction create significant consequences in human–robot relational patterns and may affect human–human relations. When considering social interactions as systems, the absence of a precise interactional element produces a general reshaping of the interactional pattern, eventuall…Read more
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1476Will sexual robots modify human relationships? A psychological approach to reframe the symbolic argumentAdvanced Robotics 35 (9): 561-571. 2021.The purpose of this paper is to understand if and how interactions with Sexual Robots will modify users’ relational abilities in human-human relations. We first underline that, in today’s scholar discussion on the ‘symbolic argument’, there is no theoretical framework explaining the process of symbolic shift between human-robot interactions (HRI) and human-human interactions (HHI). To clarify the symbolic shift mechanism, we propose the concept of objectual mediation. Moreover, under the lens of…Read more
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19L'intelligenza artificiale e il mercato dell'ozioIn Piercosma Bisconti & Davide Orsitto (eds.), Praecurrit Fatum, La Lepre Edizioni. pp. 167-178. 2021.La crescita esponenziale delle tecnologie di AI come il machine learning e le reti neurali, nonché l'integrazione tecnica dei sistemi cyber-fisici nella produzione, nei servizi logistici e nei processi industriali, rende il mondo dell'industria 4.0 sempre più vicino ed accessibile nei paesi industrializzati. La repentina transizione odierna dai processi di produzione di massa verso l'economia dell'informazione, che scaturisce da queste innovazioni, crea zone di ombra e penombra sul futuro incert…Read more
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1001Sexual Robots: The Social-Relational Approach and the Concept of Subjective ReferenceLecture Notes in Computer Science. 2020.In this paper we propose the notion of “subjective reference” as a conceptual tool that explains how and why human-robot sexual interactions could reframe users approach to human-human sexual interactions. First, we introduce the current debate about Sexual Robotics, situated in the wider discussion about Social Robots, stating the urgency of a regulative framework. We underline the importance of a social-relational approach, mostly concerned about Social Robots impact in human social structures…Read more
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348Companion robots: the hallucinatory danger of human-robot interactionsIn Piercosma Bisconti & Daniele Nardi (eds.), AIES '18: Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, . pp. 17-22. 2018.The advent of the so-called Companion Robots is raising many ethical concerns among scholars and in the public opinion. Focusing mainly on robots caring for the elderly, in this paper we analyze these concerns to distinguish which are directly ascribable to robotic, and which are instead preexistent. One of these is the “deception objection”, namely the ethical unacceptability of deceiving the user about the simulated nature of the robot’s behaviors. We argue on the inconsistency of this charge,…Read more
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Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'AnnaDepartment of PhilosophyDoctoral student
Scuola Superiore di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento Sant'Anna
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 2022