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The role of AI in election interference and political propaganda in Europe
Notes for the panel discussion “Artificial Intelligence: A double-edged sword for truth” @ Voices 2025 Introduction Existing and emerging digital technologies pose significant concerns, challenges, and risks for the functioning of healthy and full democracies (see: EGE 2023). AI-driven disinformation and misinformation pose a growing threat to society’s information ecosystem. Advances in generative AI enable…
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WHO leads the way? Bridging ethics and practice in social listening and infodemic management @EACME. Halle 2024
In light of the critical importance of ethical considerations in healthcare, particularly during public health emergencies, this conference contribution will focus on detailing the journey and insights gained from the creation of the WHO guidance document on ethical infodemic management. Specifically, it will explore the process of developing a framework that is both theoretically solid,…
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Large language models at the crossroads of life, death and data in assisted suicide cases @ Digital Bioethics. Hannover 2024
I presented these slides at the Digital Bioethics Symposium organized by Frank Ursin and Sabine Salloch – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. See also: https://renkulab.io/projects/giovanni.spitale/as-case-generation (code presented in the slides)
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Large language models’ impact on the disinformation ecosystem: Information Quality, Infodemics, and Public Health @ Digital Bioethics. Hannover 2024
We presented these slides at the Digital Bioethics Symposium organized by Frank Ursin and Sabine Salloch – Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH) and funded by Volkswagen Stiftung. See also: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adh1850 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.03550
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Death by PowerPoint? Not Today! @IBME PhD retreat 2024
How to Rock Your Presentations and Keep Your Audience Alive
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Empirical (bio) ethics 101 @ Ca’ Foscari Challenge School
Lesson 1 (theory, exercise, case study – DIPEx) Lesson 2 (case study – telegram social listening and PHERCC ethics)
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Doing research in bioethics using empirical methods@DMM Postgraduate Course in Bioethics 2024
I presented these slides during the Postgraduate Course in Bioethics 2024 organized by the Department of Molecular Medicine of the University of Padova. Yay, back home! What is empirical ethics? A logical next step in the development of practical ethics after the turn to “applied ethics”. It can be both descriptive and normative, and it’s…
Lectures and presentations
Those who do not share their slides after publicly presenting them shall burn in eternal flames.
As I’d rather not being a kebab for the eternity, here I collect my lectures and presentations – mostly in English, sometimes in Italian, depending on context&public.