In a world overwhelmed by information, clarity is the first to falter. Fondazione Leonardo, in collaboration with OnePodcast of the Gedi Group, launches the first Vodcast to orient us in the reality of today and tomorrow thanks to eight meetings with high-level academics who know very well what awaits us.
2050, survival manual in present-day Italyis the title of the project curated by Jaime D’Alessandro which will be available starting from Thursday 9 May, and on a weekly basis, on all streaming platforms and on the Fondazione Leonardo website.
Artificial intelligence, why it is wrong to humanize the machine and computerize the mind by Luciano Floridi* and Anna C. Nobre** 29 April 2024
A compass available to everyone to investigate current events: artificial intelligence, training and universities, society and its narratives, the true impact of social networks, the country without climate change, the relationship between happiness at work and innovation, the demographic issue, promises and realities of robotics.
Here are the themes and guests of the various episodes in detail:
1) The Cynar effect in the age of artificial intelligence
Luciano Floridi, head of the digital ethics center at Yale University
2) Universities as they should be
Luciana Vaccaro, Rector of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western Switzerland. President of Swiss Universities
3) Living in the society of resentment
Massimiliano Valerii, General Director of the Center for Social Investment Studies (Censis)
4) We are the problem with social networks
Walter Quattrociocchi, head of the Center of Data Science and Complexity for Society at La Sapienza
5) Survival manual in Italy’s climate crisis
Paola Mercogliano, Professor of “Advanced Meteorology”, head of research at the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (Cmcc)
6) What does happiness in the workplace have to do with innovation
Mariano Corso, Professor of the Polytechnic of Milan. Scientific Manager of the Smart Working and Cloud Transformation Observatories
7) The lost generations and the Italy of 2050
Alessandro Rosina, professor of Demography and Social Statistics at the Catholic University of Milan
8) A robot will save us. Perhaps
Giorgio Metta, Scientific Director of the Italian Institute of Technology