7 papers
What is Left for Us? Second Scholarship Against the Degradation of Research by AI
Claudio Novelli, Luciano Floridi
We argue that generative AI can degrade research by eroding the very practices through which scholarly judgement is formed and academic trust is built. As constitutive conditions f…
Fake Plastic Voters: When Political Parties Can Use AI-Simulated Focus Groups
Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Jennifer Cyr +4
Political parties strive to understand their electorates, and focus groups are a vital tool in these efforts. AI-enhanced simulation technologies (AESTs) enable synthetic focus gro…
Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): what it is, how it works, why it matters, and how to deal with it
Luciano Floridi, Carlotta Buttaboni, Nicolas Gertler +4
The emergence of Agentic Artificial Intelligence (AAI) systems capable of independently initiating digital interactions necessitates a new optimisation paradigm designed explicitly…
What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing? On the Stochastic Nature and Abductive Appearance of Large Language Models
Luciano Floridi, Jessica Morley, Claudio Novelli +1
This article looks at how reasoning works in current Large Language Models (LLMs) that function using the token-completion method. It examines their stochastic nature and their sim…
Foundations for Risk Assessment of AI in Protecting Fundamental Rights
Antonino Rotolo, Beatrice Ferrigno, Jose Miguel Angel Garcia Godinez +2
This chapter introduces a conceptual framework for qualitative risk assessment of AI, particularly in the context of the EU AI Act. The framework addresses the complexities of lega…
The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI
Grant Shanklin, Emmie Hine, Claudio Novelli +2
The proliferation of generative AI systems has created new challenges for the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) community, particularly regarding how traditional copyleft princi…