Università Roma Tre

Artificial intelligence and society: data-driven decisions and algorithmic interpretation
1) the algorithmic decision-making process. who is accountable for data-driven algorithmic decisions? previsions and probability are not 100% sure. human beings are slower than machines and less proficient with data analysis, but who can guarantee the correctness of decisions?
2) According to alan Turing machines need to predent to act like human beings. they don't have to be like them. In order for them to be intelligent they need to make mistakes. who can control which decision is the good one, in open context? We would need counter-factual reality in order to check if the decision was really the better one.
3) technology is a sociotechnical system that want to organize the external world, not to understand it. Who is in control of such a governamental system? Which are the objectives of the technological system? Which are the rules for the sharing of the same environment, that includes human beings, other living beings and socio-technical tools?

the reading list will be defined at the beginning of the collective seminar.