A new article of mine has been published in Philosophy & Technology: “Images of Artificial Intelligence: a Blind Spot in AI Ethics”. In open-access:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-022-00498-3

Tomorrow (13.45-17 CET) I will participate with Bruno Leclercq (Université de Liège) in the Séminaire international de Sémiotique de Paris at the Maison Suger (Fondation Maison Sciences de l’Homme). My talk (in French) will be about automatic pain detection technologies and their philosophical and ethical implications. The Teams link is available at https://www.fmsh.fr/fr/recherche/31664

Porto University Press will soon release the book “From Wisdom to Data” I have co-edited with Celeste Pedro, Dario Rodighiero, and José Higuera. An exposition will also take place at the Museu de História Natural e da Ciência da U. Porto. These are two major results of the FCT-funded project “From Data to Wisdom” I have co-supervised with José Higuera and José Meirinhos.

Dario Rodighiero and I just published a blog post for the blog Better Images of AI in which we resume some of our work of this year:

I have published a short article in Italian titled “Intelligenze artificiali e stupidità umane (Artificial intelligences and human stupidities)” for the journal edoxai: https://endoxai.net/2021/11/25/intelligenze-artificiali-e-stupidita-umane/

The record of my talk (in French) at the Maison Suger (Fondation Maison Sciences de l’Homme) within the international conference “Le futur du visage” (ERC-funded projects FACETS) is now available on YouTube. I discuss a particular kind of visual representation of AI, namely the one in which a face (or a body) is represented as in the middle of a process of composition or decomposition into particles. My hypothesis is that these images are symptoms of a “datification” of our worldview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPx6S8hd8rI.

On December 3, 2021, I organize with Wessel Reijers, Mark Coeckelbergh, Monica Gorza, and Jean-Francois Houle this workshop at the Fonds Ricoeur (Paris): http://www.fondsricoeur.fr/fr/pages/interpreting-technology-2021.html

On Saturday, September 4, at 7 pm CET I will give a talk within the context of the Hermeneutics in Real Life Initiative: https://www.hinrl.org/home.

The title of the talk is “Digital Hermeneutics Is Said in Many Ways”

The paperback version of my book Digital Hermeneutics is finally out:

https://www.routledge.com/Digital-Hermeneutics-Philosophical-Investigations-in-New-Media-and-Technologies/Romele/p/book/9781032088174

I have started a little project on Instagram titled “ugly AI” in which I explore the bad taste in representing AI in science communication and marketing. Do not hesitate to share images with me, and please, do not feel offended if some of the images concern you! https://instagram.com/ugly.ai/