Strategic Foresight, or strategic forecasting, is a discipline aimed at guiding choices and actions based on the prediction of various possible future scenarios. Predictive artificial intelligence can support humans in making a strategic prediction: it can be used for this purpose in businesses and professions to study future megatrends, such as sustainability, energy transition, digital…
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Following his election, Pope Leo XIV linked his name to the social challenge we are facing of Artificial Intelligence. There are several reasons for this, but the main one traces back to the fact that Pope Leo XIII, with the historic Encyclical Rerum Novarum, addressed the social problems that arose in the context of the…
As is stated in the Draghi report, “the key factor in the widening productivity gap between the EU and the U.S. has been digital technology, and currently Europe looks set to fall further behind.” The European Commission, in order to close this gap, has financed the construction of server farms in various countries, which can…
The OECD report “The Future of Education and Skills: Education 2030” states: “There is a growing demand on schools to prepare students for the most rapid economic and social changes, for jobs that have not yet been created, for technologies that have not yet been invented, and for solving social problems that did not exist…
Many analysts and entrepreneurs, including key players such as Elon Musk or Bill Gates, believe in the creation of a universal basic income is necessary. Except that they do not convincingly explain how wealth should be redistributed, and how taxation of robots and companies based on AI automatisms should take place. The labor crisis poses…
The impact of the rapid spread of Ai in the world of work has the potential to profoundly destabilize society. It is on the employment front where the most perceptible and relevant problems are likely to arise. This is the position of Mario Draghi’s report on European competitiveness: “The impact of AI in Europe has…
With the advent of AI, digital is no longer just about information or entertainment, but now directly impacts knowledge. Training intellectual and cognitive skills has always been the key focus of the educational community, which cannot remain indifferent or passive in the face of the new challenge. The role of educators and cultural mediators must…
There can be a great difficulty today in identifying sources online. A user may cite information they have seen a video on YouTube or read a news story on the Internet or a post on Facebook, without having further investigated what the source of this content is. This tendency to homogenize content to identify only…
In truth, even on the Internet, on social media and in AI models there are forms of content control, almost always automated and only rarely moderated by human supervisors, that can be likened to the concept of censorship. For example, sexually explicit content is often filtered and censored by search engines but also by social…
From its inception and naming, the World Wide Web has declared its universality, and has fueled the myth of an instantly accessible global media library. This vision is partly realized, but time has not yet abolished a fundamental barrier: language differences. For example, for most Italians, reading content in a foreign language is still de…
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