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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 · 1d
New DEC paper on the Erosion of State Power:
"Social Media Elections, Bureaucratic Mimicry, and the Erosion of State Power: The Case of Nepal"

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 2d
Il mondo che ci sceglie: conversazione con Luciano Floridi - Gilt Magazine
Il mondo che ci sceglie: conversazione con Luciano Floridi - Gilt Magazine
Abbiamo intervistato Luciano Floridi per capire cosa significhi davvero vivere nell’era dell’innovazione, quando l’intelligenza artificiale non è più solo uno strumento bensì un ambiente
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 2d
Lecture Series: Beyond the Hype: Thinking Critically about AI in Healthcare dec.yale.edu/program...

This DEC Lecture series is free and available online!

Beyond the Hype: Thinking Critically about AI in Healthcare | Digital Ethics Center
Dr. Jessica Morley from the Yale Digital Ethics Centre examines the role of artificial intelligence in healthcare across six lectures.  
dec.yale.edu

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 3d
The New Editorial Gatekeepers: Understanding LLM-based Interfaces, Their Benefits, Risks and Design
(revised version)
papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Reposted by Luciano Floridi

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Michiel Bontenbal @mpbontenbal.bsky.social · 3d
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AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None <br> (revised version)
<p><span>The article introduces the concept of “semantic pareidolia” - our tendency to attribute consciousness, intelligence, and emotions to AI systems that la
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 3d
AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None
(revised version)

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 3d
Per capire la rivoluzione dell’IA serve un cambio di prospettiva - L'Eurispes
Per capire la rivoluzione dell’IA serve un cambio di prospettiva - L'Eurispes
Per Luciano Floridi, docente a Yale, l’IA ci mette di fronte a una svolta ontologica, che ci spinge ad esercitare il pensiero critico.
www.leurispes.it

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
Gli adolescenti nell’infosfera e l’apprendimento su misura - Il punto
Gli adolescenti nell’infosfera e l’apprendimento su misura - Il punto
Dagli ambienti informativi complessi all’equità cognitiva: intervista Luciano Floridi
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
We are looking for a Senior Administrative Assistant, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
Senior Administrative Assistant, Digital Ethics Center in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511 | Administration & Operations at Yale University
Apply for Senior Administrative Assistant, Digital Ethics Center job with Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, 06511. Administration & Operations at Yale University
careers.yale.edu

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 8d
Postdoctoral positions available at Yale's Digital Ethics Center.
They are renewable for up to 4 years, and provide plenty of benefits. Highly successful postdocs can be promoted to a faculty position after 2 years. Please apply and share with interested candidates 🤓
dec.yale.edu/join-us...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 9d
After more than 30 years 😅 (I got distracted by more pressing philosophical questions), I finally finished this paper. It can be read as an intro to the microhistorical papers in the biblio 🤓
"Philosophical Microhistory: Its Nature, Scope, Value, and Challenges"

Reposted by Luciano Floridi

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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 11d
Check out the latest from the SSRN #blog which includes the top downloaded papers on #AI in Law for Q4 2025.

Read more: spkl.io/63323AmKE7

#LawSky #AcademicChatter #AICommunity
Top Papers on AI in Law Q4 2025
This list includes the top downloaded papers on AI in Law posted in Q1 2025. It also includes the Top 5 Organizations that downloaded the research during this period.
spkl.io

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 13d
How many absurdities have philosophers said?

"Philosophical Absurdities in the History of Philosophy: Cicero's Nihil tam absurde, Varro's tam infandum, and their argumentative uses (revised version 2)"
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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 15d
Ending the year by finishing a paper I should have written a very long time ago 🤓
"Philosophical Absurdities in the History of Philosophy: Cicero's Nihil tam absurde, Varro's tam infandum, and their argumentative uses" papers.ssrn.com/sol3...

Reposted by Luciano Floridi, Martin Paul Eve

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Syed AbuMusab @smusab.bsky.social · 17d
What if the arguments used to oppose capital punishment lead us toward AI executions? I, together with @reneeasirbu.bsky.social, & @floridi.bsky.social explore this possibility & why we must prevent it. Happy to end fall with a 2nd pub! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #philtech #philsky #moralphil
Execution by Lethal Autonomous Mechanism: How Anti-Capital Punishment Arguments Might Lead to Automated Executions—and Why Such Automation Must be Prevented - The Journal of Ethics
In this paper, we examine the potential integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into capital punishment through lethal autonomous mechanisms (LAMs), an extension of developments in lethal autonomo...
link.springer.com

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 19d
On understanding a sinopia (series: notes to myself) medium.com/@lfloridi...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 28d
L’Architetto di Mondi: Perché l’IA non ucciderà la scrittura, ma ne cambierà il mestiere
medium.com/@giusante...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 28d
Interesting comments by Stevan Harnad on our recent paper

"A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem"
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Here: "Category learning, large language models, and symbol grounding" generic.wordpress.so...

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · 28d
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 · Dec 12
An illuminating article helping to look at LLMs from the right perspective (and behave consequently...)

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Luciano Floridi @floridi.bsky.social · Dec 12
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 · Dec 10
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 · Dec 9
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 5
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 · Dec 4
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 · Dec 4
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

Reposted by Luciano Floridi

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Digital Civics @digitalcivics.bsky.social · Dec 2
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 · Dec 2
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 · Nov 27
The Eclipse of the Analogue, the Hardware Turn, and how to Deal with Both

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