SHOULD WE BELIEVE IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? A DIALOGUE FOR UNDERSTANDING THE PRESENT
FBK Aula Grande
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Polo delle Scienze Umane e sociali
Aula Grande
FBK Aula Grande
Fondazione Bruno Kessler - Polo delle Scienze Umane e sociali
Aula Grande
Great social, cultural, scientific transformations cannot occur if people simply observe them with skepticism. Of course, it is not enough to believe in something for it to happen, but without beliefs, convictions, trust, sometimes even faith, human beings struggle to accept and actively contribute to the changes taking place around them.
In order to better understand how people today see the emergence and proliferation of increasingly intelligent machines, the Centre for Religious Sciences organizes the roundtable discussion “Should we believe in Artificial Intelligence?”
The meeting, to be held on 21 January 2025, at 4.30 p.m., in FBK’s Aula Grande (via S. Croce, 77, Trento) is the final event of the research project REBE – Resilient Beliefs: Religion and Beyond, funded by the Euregio Science Fund (2022-2024).
Drawing insights from an activity carried out with two classes at the Istituto Artigianelli, the three ISR researchers involved in the investigation, Paolo Costa, Eugenia Lancellotta and Boris Rähme, will discuss with Michela Milano (Director of FBK’s Digital Society Centre) and Paolo Traverso (Director of Strategic Planning at FBK) about the deep-seated beliefs revolving around the AI revolution, their connection to – and disconnection from – empirical evidence, and how such beliefs might influence AI development in the near future.
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Image: “mappa concettuale prodotta dagli studenti dell’Istituto Artigianelli”, Paolo Costa
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L’iniziativa è stata realizzata anche grazie al contributo della Direzione generale Educazione, ricerca e istituti culturali del Ministero della Cultura. |
Speakers
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Michela Milano is full professor in the Department of Computer Science - Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna and Director of the Centre for Digital Society at FBK. Her research activity concerns Artificial Intelligence with a particular interest in decision support systems in which hybrid methods of reasoning, learning and optimisation coexist for the construction of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models. In this field she has achieved international visibility and has collaborations with various research, university and industrial groups. She was vice president of EurAI (European Association of Artificial Intelligence) and Executive councilor of AAAI (American Association of Artificial Intelligence) and has participated in numerous Italian and European research projects and is responsible for many research collaborations with companies.
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Paolo Traverso is the Director of Strategic Planning at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), a research center with over 600 people, internationally recognized for its research and innovation in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Microsystems. He served as Director of the Information and Communication Technology Research Center at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) from 2007 to 2020. He has led numerous Artificial Intelligence projects for Digital Industry, Health and Well-being, and Public Administration. He has published over one hundred scientific articles in international journals and conference proceedings and is also a co-author of three textbooks on Automated Planning and Artificial Intelligence.