"The development of artificial intelligence presents risks, but also many opportunities. I think that knowing what awaits us is the best way to be less afraid."
Thus the director of SkyTg24, Giuseppe De Bellis, presents a new cycle of five weekly appointments dedicated to AI, "Ideas for the future", the format curated and hosted by De Bellis himself, who will be supported as co-host and analyst by Luciano Floridi, one of the world's leading experts on the topic.
"We made a first cycle of this format during the lockdown - explains De Bellis to ANSA -. It is a program that investigates the future: we are faced with the epochal transformation of AI which has forcefully entered our lives. SkyTg24 wants take on the burden of understanding and explaining this revolution, focusing not on technology, but on the repercussions it has on everyday life".
In this cycle, broadcast from Thursday 25 January at 8.40pm, all aspects relating to this revolution will be addressed: the story of the roots of science and technology that led to the development of AI, the explanation of the vocabulary necessary to understand the topic, its practical applications in all economic-productive sectors such as medicine, industry, finance, culture, entertainment, business, information.
Guests of the first episode, to talk about the new regulations that will regulate the sector: Oreste Pollicino, Italian representative on the managing board of the European Agency for Fundamental Rights in Vienna, Andrea Renda, Scientific Director of CEPS, and Mariarosaria Taddeo, Professor of Digital Ethics and Defense Technologies at the Oxford Internet Institute.
"The framework on which we will move is that of Europe - underlines De Bellis -, which is ahead of other institutions in particular for the regulation of the AI Act, also for understanding the differences with the United States and China".
The aim remains to tell what is happening, delving into what artificial intelligence has the greatest impact on: knowledge, behaviour, ethics, coexistence, the relationship with the truth, our way of working and, above all, , to live.
"The topics we will deal with in the episodes, after having analyzed the regulatory aspects linked to AI - the director of SkyTG24 states - are the repercussions on work, on information, on conflicts understood in a broad sense, not only those armed, but also economic, commercial, social ones and finally a more generic closure on the future, with a broader reasoning to understand what we will be like and how our way of being in the world will change".
Focus also on issues related to information.
"The main risk I see is not the replacement of the human being with the machine, but the industrialization of fake news with the possibility of constructing parallel truths - argues De Bellis -. However, together with the problem I also see the solution, because the The strength of artificial intelligence is that it can be used on the same ground to allow us to ferret out fake news in a much shorter time. In general, I see the possibility of helping journalists to do their job better. We can delegate it to the machine. routine and mechanical work, dedicating our intelligence to higher profile tasks. I also see the possibility of having an enormous wealth of information available, with a unique combination of sources in the history of humanity."
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