Tag: artificial intelligence
Tag: artificial intelligence
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Using artificial intelligence in the fight against financial crime
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become essential to the fight against financial crime, a phenomenon that accounts for between 2% and 5% of the world's GDP. Financial institutions are required to monitor and report suspicious activities, but traditional systems have their limitations. AI can analyse huge volumes of data and detect anomalous behaviours, and it can…
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Free will: artificial intelligence as the basis for a new convergence between philosophy and science
Free will: is it just a philosophical matter? Not any more. Free will was the topic of not only the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome but also the annual conference of the Artificial Life Society in Copenhagen. In their effort to create autonomous machines, researchers are increasingly driven to ask: "autonomous from what?"…
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Artificial intelligence and responsibility
Artificial Intelligence (AI) profoundly affects human life, transforming information and communication. While it offers significant benefits, it also presents risks such as information pollution and the spread of fake news. The use of AI must be guided by ethical principles to prevent discrimination and social injustice. Freedom and responsibility are inseparable and are essential to…
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Artificial Intelligence in healthcare: a future of opportunities and challenges
Artificial Intelligence offers great opportunities for healthcare, but it also presents several challenges. With aging populations and an increase in chronic diseases, healthcare systems are facing rising costs and resistance to change. AI can improve preventive health, early diagnosis, care pathways optimisation and personalised treatments. It can also support research. But it is important to…
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Large language models: the legal and ethical implications of synsethised information
Generative artificial intelligence, e.g. large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT-4, is now a key topic of public debate, and it is having an impact on sectors such as justice, healthcare, and security. These models generate coherent and relevant text, which raises questions about their creativity. They are creative because they go beyond simply reproducing…
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The absence of artificial intelligence in the fantasy universe of Frank Herbert’s Dune cycle – Part II: Do not corrupt the human soul
In the Dune universe, the absence of artificial intelligence is justified by deep ethical reasons. The dialogue between Paul Atreides and Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam emphasises the prohibition against creating machines that imitate the human mind, which is considered an act of counterfeiting and degrading the human essence. This prohibition is linked to the…
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Artificial Intelligence in Medical Research
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming medicine by improving diagnostic accuracy, patient management, and drug discovery. Notable successes include the use of deep learning for medical image analysis and DeepMind's AlphaFold app to predict protein structures. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the use of AI accelerated the development of vaccines. However, the application of AI in medicine…
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The patient-doctor relationship in the era of artificial intelligence and its application to medicine
The patient-doctor relationship has evolved from the two models described by Plato in the fourth century BC — the authoritarian model for slaves, the collaborative model for free men — towards the current model, based on informed consent, promoted by Italian Act 217/2019. The impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on this relationship raises the question…
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The absence of artificial intelligence in the fantasy universe of the Dune cycle by Frank Herbert — Part I: The Butlerian Jihad
In the Dune universe, the absence of artificial intelligence is a deliberate choice emerging from fear of human enslavement at the hands of other humans using machines to achieve domination. The prohibition originates from the Butlerian Jihad, an event that leads to the destruction of all "thinking machines" and which establishes a taboo against technology.…
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New rules on medical research involving artificial intelligence in the light of amendments to Article 110 of the Italian Privacy Code. Part One
European Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR) governs the use of personal data for scientific research. In Italy, Legislative Decree No. 110 of 2018 introduced restrictive rules that resulted in delays to medical research. Recent amendments under Act no. 56 of 29 April 2023 are intended to reduce these delays by simplifying bureaucratic procedures and speeding up the…