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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. As constitutive conditions for the production and valida…
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…
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…
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…
A Replica for our Democracies? On Using Digital Twins to Enhance Deliberative Democracy
Claudio Novelli, Javier Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Dirk Helbing +2
Deliberative democracy depends on carefully designed institutional frameworks, such as participant selection, facilitation methods, and decision-making mechanisms, that shape how d…
A Robust Governance for the AI Act: AI Office, AI Board, Scientific Panel, and National Authorities
Claudio Novelli, Philipp Hacker, Jessica Morley +2
Regulation is nothing without enforcement. This particularly holds for the dynamic field of emerging technologies. Hence, this article has two ambitions. First, it explains how the…
Artificial Intelligence for the Internal Democracy of Political Parties
Claudio Novelli, Giuliano Formisano, Prathm Juneja +2
The article argues that AI can enhance the measurement and implementation of democratic processes within political parties, known as Intra-Party Democracy (IPD). It identifies the…
Generative AI in EU Law: Liability, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Cybersecurity
Claudio Novelli, Federico Casolari, Philipp Hacker +2
The advent of Generative AI, particularly through Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and its successors, marks a paradigm shift in the AI landscape. Advanced LLMs exhibit mu…