Talks

1. Contributed (peer review)

• Artificial companions and socio-affective deskilling. Accepted for presentation at the 22nd Annual Conference of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC). Torino, September 2026.

• Intelligenza artificiale e rischio longitudinale. Workshop “La filosofia della tecnica e della tecnologia in Italia: Genealogie, orientamenti e prospettive”. Torino, 14/02/2026.

• 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). 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Consciousness Unexplained. 17th Annual Conference of the Italian Association of 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.

• 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.

• 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 of Cognitive Sciences. Roma Tre University, 13/12/2019.

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

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

2. Invited

• AI systems as experimental technologies. Workshop “AI and decision-making: tools, hybrids, and collectives”. RWTH Aachen University, 12/06/2026.

• Participant in the Italo-German workshop “Philosophical perspectives on the ethical status of technology”. Villa Vigoni (Como, Italy), 28/09/2025-01/10/2025.

• 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", University of Naples, 28/02/2025.

• AI systems as experimental technologies: ethical implications. Workshop “ConScience: Towards a responsible use of ML”. University of Pisa, 17/12/2024.

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

• Trustworthy AI: a conceptual quagmire. Workshop “Trust in Artificial Intelligence”, University of L’Aquila, 11/12/2024.

• Trustworthy, reliable and responsible AI. MOMILAB Seminar, IMT Lucca, 04/10/2024.

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

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