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Luciano Floridi
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Philosopher (Yale/Bologna), digital ethics, AI ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology,
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Luciano Floridi is an Italian and British philosopher. He is John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science and Founding Director of the Digital Ethics Center at Yale University. He is also a Professor of Sociology of Culture and Communication at the University of Bologna, Department of Legal Studies, where he is the director of the Centre for Digital Ethics. Furthermore, he is adjunct professor at the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C. He is married to the neuroscientist Anna Christina Nobre. .. more

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
L’Architetto di Mondi: Perché l’IA non ucciderà la scrittura, ma ne cambierà il mestiere
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
Interesting comments by Stevan Harnad on our recent paper

"A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem"
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Here: "Category learning, large language models, and symbol grounding" generic.wordpress.so...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
Grato e onorato di essere stato eletto presidente onorario della Società Europea per l’Etica e la Politica dell’Intelligenza Artificiale www.sepai-internatio... Complimenti, e auguri per un grande successo, alle colleghe e ai colleghi, per questa iniziativa così importante.
Society for the Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence
Society for the Ethics and Politics of Artificial Intelligence
www.sepai-international.org

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Maurizio Recanatini @mreca-bo.bsky.social · 14d
An illuminating article helping to look at LLMs from the right perspective (and behave consequently...)

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 15d
Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order
Trump Moves to Stop States From Regulating AI With a New Executive Order
The order would create one federal regulatory framework for artificial intelligence, President Trump told reporters in the Oval Office.
www.nytimes.com

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 16d
New article with Jessica Morley, Claudio Novelli, and David Watson on
"What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing? On the Stochastic Nature and Abductive Appearance of Large Language Models"
OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 17d
Yiang Jia, Fernando Tohmé, and I just finished
"A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem".
In a nutshell, LLMs are semantically parasitical on human symbol grounding.
Free OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
Addenda and corrigenda are welcome.

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 21d
Almost ready to go for our annual DEC summit at Yale:

Digital Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI Summit (DIVAS)

dec.yale.edu/programs/DIVAS

The report from last year is available here
aire.lexxion.eu/article/AIRE...
Digital Vulnerabilities in the Age of AI Summit (DIVAS)
DIVAS will bring together experts, journalists, platforms, advocates, scientists, scholars & voices directly impacted by digital harms
dec.yale.edu

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 22d
Luciano Floridi: AI, fast food o gourmet. Saper sempre guardare sotto la marmellata
Luciano Floridi: AI, fast food o gourmet. Saper sempre guardare sotto la marmellata
L’AI e il capitale semantico. Luciano Floridi: l’appiattimento dei contenuti non è inevitabile, da un uso fast food a un approccio gourmet
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 22d
AI-based review. As I stressed some time ago, see
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...
this is going to happen, more or less properly, depending on whether decision-makers will embrace, shape, and steer this technology or resist it.
Stanford Agentic Reviewer - Submit Paper https://paperreview.ai/

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 22d
As this article shows: "AI models had become genuinely useful for cybersecurity operations, both for good and for ill."

Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign www.anthropic.com/ne...

Thanks to @Nicolas Gertler for the usual input and great conversation about this.
Disrupting the first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign
A report describing an a highly sophisticated AI-led cyberattack
www.anthropic.com

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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · 24d
Because it turns out, if you put Floridi’s @floridi.bsky.social observations about digital age philosophical transition next to Ulansey’s @dreamlion.bsky.social observations about #Mithraism things get pretty interesting.

eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/ei...
eidos.uw.edu.pl

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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · 24d
Modern Mithraism: Ancient Concepts for an Information Age

Out now in Eidos: A Journal for Philosophy of Culture

Link: eidos.uw.edu.pl/files/pdf/ei...

#PhilTech #Religion #Culture #Civics #Storytelling

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 29d
The Eclipse of the Analogue, the Hardware Turn, and how to Deal with Both

OA: papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Published: link.springer.com/ar...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 27
On Saussure and Heidegger about language (series: notes to myself) medium.com/@lfloridi...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 25
Revised version: "The keyhole model: some advice on how to structure and develop a research project" (revised version 7) papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 25
What Writing a Book With AI Really Means - Prof. Luciano Floridi (Yale) - on Writing With AI Podcast www.youtube.com/watc...

The discussion group is here if you wish to join:
www.reddit.com/r/Wri...
What Writing a Book With AI Really Means - Prof. Luciano Floridi (Yale) - on Writing With AI Podcast
A couple of weeks ago, YoavYariv and I did a remarkable Zoom call with the Founding Director of Yale's Digital Ethics Center, Luciano Floridi. Luciano is a leading philosopher on the issues of AI and creativity. His advice to writers is invaluable. Put all of your preconceptions about academics and
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 25
You did not 😊

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 25
Absolutely right! Thank you SO much!

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davidbawden.bsky.social @davidbawden.bsky.social · Nov 25
Drawing particularly on the writings of @floridi.bsky.social,
@lorcand.bsky.social, @dixondom.bsky.social, and Niels Winfield Lund

Reposted by Luciano Floridi, Lyn Robinson

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davidbawden.bsky.social @davidbawden.bsky.social · Nov 25
A voice out of the dark of time; the once and future LIS discipline. New blog post by myself and @lynrobinson.bsky.social. theoccasionalinformationist.com/2025/11/25/a...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 25
On the phrase “Only a God Can Save Us” (series: notes to myself)
medium.com/@lfloridi...

This Note is part of the 4th edition of Notes to Myself, to be published in the future.

All other Notes, corrected, edited, and updated, are available in the 3rd edition on Amazon https://a.co/d/130sfxm

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 19
Un editoriale per Wired:
Il capitale semantico, la vera posta in gioco della rivoluzione digitale

www.wired.it/article/capi...
Il capitale semantico, la vera posta in gioco della rivoluzione digitale
Si tratta della nostra capacità generativa di creare, curare, generare e trasmettere significato, attraverso le informazioni che si hanno. L'analisi sul futuro di una delle voci più autorevoli della f...
www.wired.it

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 16
Ci vediamo oggi di persona per parlare de “ La Differenza Fondamentale” 😊

www.mondadori.it/eventi/lucia...
luciano floridi a Milano 16/11/2025 - 18.30 | Libri Mondadori
<b>Milano (MI). </b>L'autore presenta il libro <b>La differenza fondamentale</b> presso Castello Sforzesco, Sala Viscontea, nell'ambito di Bookcity, ore 18.30
www.mondadori.it

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 7
L'IA sta liberando l'essere umano [Luciano Floridi]
una bellissima chiacchierata con il brillante Raffaele Gaito
L'IA sta liberando l'essere umano [Luciano Floridi]
Potrai ascoltare sia me che Luciano il 19 Novembre a Orbits, prendi il biglietto qui: https://www.orbits.day/ In questa straordinaria conversazione con Luciano Floridi, professore a Yale e pioniere dell'etica digitale, esploriamo la differenza fondamentale tra intelligenza umana e artificiale, scop
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 6
Non abbiamo resistito... Grazie a Gianluca, sempre bravissimo!
TUTTO QUELLO CHE DEVI SAPERE SULL'INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE! Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI passa dal BSMT!
TUTTO QUELLO CHE DEVI SAPERE SULL'INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE! Prof. LUCIANO FLORIDI passa dal BSMT!
Da quando è stato qui un anno fa è successo di tutto, nel mondo, nella nostra società e soprattutto nell’universo dell’intelligenza artificiale. E allora non potevamo che chiedere aiuto a una delle menti più lucide del nostro tempo per spiegarci a che punto siamo della rivoluzione digitale. Ebbene
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Umberto Tilomelli @tilo67.bsky.social · Nov 6
Proud owner 😁

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 5
La differenza fondamentale. Artificial Agency: una nuova filosofia dell'intelligenza artificiale
amzn.eu/d/dv2SXR0

Da non perdere l'edizione "Gronchi Rosa" per collezionisti 😂
en.wikipedia.org/wik...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 4
Apologies Freely available on SSRN: lnkd.in/emBkrsZ8
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Nov 3
A Humanistic and Ethical Approach to Robotics, Automation, and Digitalisation (invited article for Insight - Anuario de la Asociación Española de Robótica y Automatización, to celebrate the 2025 Barcelona Declaration)

Freely available on SSRN: