Artificial intelligence is moving from the laboratory into the heart of business. It is changing how companies make decisions, interact with customers, organize work, and create value.
Manuela Veloso brings the perspective of a scientist who has taken AI from advanced research into real-world business applications. Marco Camisani Calzolari brings the perspective of a communicator and digital expert who examines how these technologies are transforming companies, workers, and society. The question is no longer whether businesses will use AI, but how they will use it, what value it will create, and what role will remain uniquely human.
From intelligence to enterprise: how can we turn technological innovation into responsible, shared progress?
Program
6:00 PM – Institutional Remarks
6:05 PM – Introduction
Luciano Floridi – Director, Digital Ethics Center, Yale University
6:20 PM – Panel
Manuela Veloso, Head of Ai reasearch, J.D. Morgan
Marco Camisani Calzolari, AI Expert & Member, Italy’s National AI Strategy Expert Committee
In conversation with: Claudio Pagliara – Director, Italian Cultural Institute of New York
This is the fourth of four conferences curated by Luciano Floridi in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute of New York. Each conference addresses a crucial area for human progress.
Education: September 22, 6:30 PM – RSVP
Health: October 13, 6:00 PM – RSVP
Environment: October 29, 6:00 PM – RSVP
Business: November 9, 6:00 PM – RSVP
Artificial intelligence carries risks, some of them serious, which we do not intend to overlook; but history has shown that technological innovation cannot simply be halted, so the more productive question is how this technology can be governed and directed towards human progress rather than allowed to undermine it. Each evening therefore brings together two speakers with distinct – and sometimes contrasting – perspectives, in a conversation meant to be substantive, lively, and accessible to a general audience.
The format calls for Luciano Floridi to open each event with a fifteen-minute introduction to frame the topic. This is followed by a panel moderated by the Director of Italian Cultural Institute, Claudio Pagliara. The discussion will be followed by an extensive Q&A with the audience.
Bio
Luciano Floridi è John K. Castle Professor in the Practice of Cognitive Science e Direttore fondatore del Digital Ethics Center presso la Yale University. È inoltre Professore di Sociologia della Cultura e della Comunicazione presso il Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche dell’Università di Bologna. Riconosciuto come una delle voci più autorevoli della filosofia contemporanea, secondo Scopus è il filosofo vivente più citato al mondo. Ha aperto nuove prospettive nella filosofia e nell’etica dell’informazione, diventando uno dei principali interpreti della rivoluzione digitale, grazie ai suoi contributi fondamentali alla definizione dei quadri normativi della società digitale. La sua produzione scientifica comprende oltre 400 pubblicazioni e spazia dalla filosofia dell’informazione all’etica digitale, dall’etica dell’intelligenza artificiale alla filosofia della tecnologia e alla storia della filosofia. Numerose sue opere sono state tradotte e pubblicate in tutto il mondo. Tra i suoi libri più recenti figurano The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2023) e The Green and the Blue: Naive Ideas to Improve Politics in the Digital Age (Wiley, 2023). Artificial Agency: Explorations of a Post-AI Culture (Wiley) e Encounters: An Experiment in Distant Writing (Columbia University Press) saranno pubblicati nel 2027. Nel 2022 è stato nominato Cavaliere di Gran Croce dell’Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana per i suoi contributi alla filosofia.
Manuela Veloso is Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is the Head of the Machine Learning Department, and researches in Artificial Intelligence. Veloso is Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS, AAAI. With her students, she researches with a variety of autonomous robots, including mobile service robots and soccer robots.
Marco Camisani Calzolari serves as an expert at the Department for Digital Transformation and at the National Cybersecurity Agency. He is a member of the Coordination Committee of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, tasked with drafting Italy’s new national strategy on artificial intelligence. He has contributed to Italy’s national AI law and to the European Code of Conduct under the AI Act. Founder of the Cyberhumanism movement, he holds a teaching position at San Raffaele University in Milan. He is the author of several books, published among others by Il Sole 24 Ore and Pearson Financial Times, and has delivered more than 500 lectures and events worldwide. He is followed by over 2 million people across social media, with his content reaching more than 25 million views per month. Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy, Honorary Officer of the Italian State Police, and recipient of the Freedom of the City of London (2022).
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