Operationalising AI Ethics: Concepts, Challenges, Approaches

Il workshop del 7 febbraio 2025, che si svolgerà a Bari, affronterà il tema dell’operazionalizzazione dell’etica nell’intelligenza artificiale, analizzando i concetti fondamentali, le sfide e gli approcci esistenti, il tutto in una prospettiva socio-tecnica.

L’evento rientra tra le attività dello Spoke 6 e del Transversal Project 1 – “Legal and Ethical Design of Trustworthy AI Systems”, con il contributo di Francesca Lisi  (Spoke 6).

Programma:

9:00-09:30
Welcome and institutional greetings 

Francesca A. Lisi (FAIR WP 6.5 Lead)
Donato Malerba (FAIR spoke 6 PI)
Filippo Lanubile (Dean of DIB Department)
Paolo Ponzio (Dean of DIRIUM Department)

09:30-10:50
Session I: Intelligence as Operation?
Chair: Antonio Lombardi

Costantino Esposito (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – 30 min
What Does Intelligence Mean? From Substance to Function

Henry Shevlin (Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Cambridge) – 30 min
Anthropomorphism and Anthropomimesis in Large Language Models

Discussion (20 minuti)

10:50 – 11:10
Coffee Break

11:10-12:30
Session II: Operationalizing Human Values between Technoscience and Politics
Chair: Antonio Carnevale

Federica Russo (University of Utrecht) – 30 min
Challenging the Domain of Exteriority: Validity and Explainability in the Era of Generative AI

Francesca R. Recchia Luciani (University of Bari Aldo Moro) – 30 min
Digital Bodies and Ontological Resistance: for Ethics of Relationships in the Age of AI

Discussion (20 minuti)

12:30-14:00
Lunch Break

14:00-15:20
Session III: Technical Aspects and Implementations
Chair: Abeer Dyoub (University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Juan Antonio Rodriguez Aguilar (Spanish Research Council | CSIC) – 30 min
Value alignment is all you need! Value engineering for AI systems

Teresa Scantamburlo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venezia) – 30 min
Implementing human-centred AI: the case of techno-moral exercises

Discussion (20 minuti)

15:20 – 15:40
Coffee Break

15:40 – 17:00
Closing Panel with all speakers

Discussants:
Karina Pedace (Universidad de Buenos Aires and UNLAM)
Luca San Mauro (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Abeer Dyoub (University of Bari Aldo Moro)