Artificial Intelligence is making its way into our lives at a growing pace. Complex and unintelligible models are seeping into our decision-making processes in a wide range of applications, from product recommendation to personal health, from security to credit score. In sensitive domains such as these, transparency and understanding are essential and directly coded into law [1].
Stefano Cresci, member of the SoBigdata Consortium, has been selected from among 13 excellent short-listed nominees as the winner of the 2020 ERCIM Cor Baayen Award. Stefano, from CNR, Italy, has received the award in recognition of the outstanding scientific quality of his research and the impact on science and society that he has already achieved as a young researcher.
Exploratory: Social Impact of AI and Explainable ML
Exploratory: Migration Studies
My experience participating in the organisation of the Social Informatics Conference (SocInfo)
We are all aware of living in a society which is constantly changing equilibriums, due to various social (and not only) phenomena. But how can humanity really be changed for the better through scientific research? How can new techniques and novel digital data sets contribute to advance societal progress?
Exploratory: Sustainable Cities for Citizens
Exploratory: Sports Data Science
In September 2020, Oxford University Press published The Oxford Handbook of Ethics and AI. This work comprises 44 different contributions divided in five sections and is edited by Markus D. Dubber, Professor of Law & Criminology and Director of the Centre for Ethics, University of Toronto, Frank Pasquale, Piper & Marbury Professor of Law, University of Maryland, and Sunit Das, Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery, University of Toronto.
Against the background of the Covid-19 pandemic, which proves to provide fertile ground to intensify the ‘information disorder’ characterised by conspiracy theories and ‘alternative facts’, it is vital to underline the relevance of science and the value of the scientific method that lies at its core and has been developed over centuries.