Talks

• We should stop wondering about the actual intelligence of AI systems. EPSA 2025, Groningen, 27/08/2025.

• Distrusting trust in AI. Final BRIO Research Meeting, Milano, 01/07/2025.

• A relational view on AI risk: complex socio-technical systems and multi-risk (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). Final BRIO Research Meeting, Milano, 01/07/2025.

• Decoding gender: addressing algorithmic misgendering in face recognition (joint work with C. Quaresmini). STS Italia conference "Technoscience for good", Milano, 11/06/2025.

• AI systems as experimental technologies: emergent risks and uncertainty (joint work with V. Schiaffonati). STS Italia conference "Technoscience for good", Milano, 11/06/2025.

• Ablation studies in ML as instances of manipulative interventions (joint work with S. Giugliano, A. Apicella, R. Prevete, V. Schiaffonati, G. Tamburrini). Workshop "AI roles in understanding artificial and biological intelligence", Napoli, 28/02/2025.

• La vulnerabilità al cospetto dell'IA. Workshop "Vulnerabilità e IA", Chieti-Pescara, 06/12/2024.

• Ablation studies in ML as instances of manipulative interventions (joint work with S. Giugliano, A. Apicella, R. Prevete, V. Schiaffonati, G. Tamburrini). AISoLA 2024, Crete, 01/11/2024.

• Is that you? Griefbots, transparency and vulnerability" (joint work with D. Chiffi). Online ISPSM Conference. 18/10/2024.

• A philosophical insight into uncertainty in AI (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). fPET 2024,  Karlsruhe, 18/09/2024. 

• Social robots and emotional transparency (joint work with M. Facchin). Robophilosophy Conference, Aarhus, 22/08/2024.

• Ablation studies in ML: a philosophical analysis (joint work with S. Giugliano, A. Apicella, R. Prevete, V. Schiaffonati, G. Tamburrini). BSPS Conference, York, 19/07/2024.

• To trust, or not to trust, that is the question (joint work with M. Petrolo). Workshop “Trustworthy AI – Conceptual challenges and applications”. Politecnico di Milano, 16/02/2024. 

• Explanation(s), Understanding and Trustworthy AI. 19th AISC Conference. Genova, 15/12/2023.

• Affective artificial agents and the problem of transparency (joint work with M. Facchin). 19th AISC Conference. Genova, 16/12/2023.

• The meta problem of artificial consciousness. 1st Annual Web Conference of the International Society for the Philosophy of the Sciences of the Mind. 02/12/2023.

• The meta-problem of artificial consciousness. 9th biennial meeting of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA 2023), Belgrade, 21/09/2023.

• AI and risk: a philosophical analysis (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). Triennial international conference of the Italian Society for Logic and the Philosophy of Science (SILFS 2023). Urbino, 06/09/2023.

• Trustworthy AI: a vexed (and yet pivotal) notion(joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 11th European Congress of Analytic Philosophy. Vienna, 25/08/2023.

• AI and risk: a philosophical analysis (joint work with D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 4th Lisbon International Conference on Philosophy of Science (LICPOS 2023). Lisbon, 12/07/2023.

• Trustworthy AI: a pragmatic stance (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). MBR023. Rome, 08/06/2023.

• Keep trusting! A plea for the notion of Trustworthy AI (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). Bias, Risk, and Opacity in AI: Second research meeting, ISTC-CNR Trento. Trento, 23/05/2023.

• The meta-problem of artificial consciousness and moral status. SINe conference 2023. Pisa-Lucca, 11/05/2023.

• Beyond reliability: values and Trustworthy AI (joint work with M. Petrolo, D. Chiffi and V. Schiaffonati). 2023 Forum on Philosophy, Engineering, and Technology. TU Delft, 20/04/2023.

• The meta-problem of artificial consciousness (invited). 1st International Meeting on Robo-Ethics and Philosophy. Politecnico di Milano, 09/03/2023.

• Consciousness Unexplained. 17th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. Noto, 14/12/2021.

• Disentangling empirical and metaphysical issues in the science of consciousness. ConsciousBrainConcepts Workshop “The science of consciousness: obstacles to progress and strategies to overcome them”. University of Oslo (online), 02/12/2021.

• Consciousness Unexplained. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 29/09/2021.

• A plea for metaphysical agnosticism in the science of consciousness. 14th Conference of the Italian Association for Analytic Philosophy. Noto, 24/09/2021.

• Scientistic stances and physicalism in the philosophy of mind. 12th International Scientific Conference on Neuroethics. San Raffaele University (online), 14/05/2021.

• Causal closure, synaptic transmission and sui generis mental properties. X Workshop on Philosophy of Biology and Cognitive Sciences. University of Madrid (online), 03/05/2021.

• Physicalism and the burden of parsimony. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 14/09/2020.

• Physicalism and the burden of parsimony (invited). MetaScience project. University of Bristol (online), 07/07/2020.

• Cleverly disguised mules and physical minds. Philosophy in Progress PG Conference. University of Nottingham, 09/01/2020.

• Why methodological naturalism cannot vindicate physicalism about the mind. 16th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. Roma Tre University, 13/12/2019.

• Muli abilmente camuffati e menti immateriali (invited). University of Bologna, 18/11/2019.

• Why interlevel approaches to explanation in cognitive science presuppose a reductive metaphysics. Fourth Avant conference “Fragmentation of Cognition”. University of Porto, 24/10/2019.

• Cleverly disguised mules and physical minds: the inductive argument for physicalism as a case of transmission failure. NETS meetings. IUSS Pavia, 10/09/2019.

• Reducing mind while maintaining non-reductive psychological explanations: disentangling metaphysical and epistemological issues. Midterm Conference of the Italian Association for Cognitive Sciences. IMT Lucca, 22/05/2019.