The new world, ripe for exploration
A series of recently published essays helps us to better understand the reality we are all about to live in
This is a new world, or rather a very new world. It’s not the America desired by millions of migrants. Nor is it the fabled land of plenty, or a world of milk and honey. This brand-new world is one in which we are all – for better or worse – already, or almost, immersed. It is the world of artificial intelligence, of digitisation, of innovation that permeates everything. A world, in other words, which some have already entered while many others, as mentioned above, are on the threshold of entering. It is a world we need to understand, to comprehend, to explore. Helping us in this (alongside other works) is the collection of conversations and essays contained in the recently published Il mondo nuovissimo. Dialoghi su etica e intelligenza artificiale (The Brand-New World. Dialogues on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence), written and edited by Fabio de Felice (professor of engineering at the Parthenope University of Naples) and Roberto Race (a consultant in corporate and reputation strategy).
A brand-new world, therefore, that requires careful exploration. This book supports us – a great deal – in this undertaking, and it does so in two stages. First, with a series of conversations between the two editors (the use of dialogue in the style of classical philosophising is distinct and original); then a series of seven in-depth studies that look more closely at the world of business.
In their dialogue, De Felice and Race address a number of widely applicable topics that range from art to ethics and take in the consequences of the pandemic, the true nature of technology, models of “ambient intelligence” and artificial intelligence itself, so-called “digital colonialism” and the modern meaning of censorship.
They then turn to companies, through a number of executives who delve into specific topics, with experiences and suggestions taken from work in companies such as Engineering (Artificial Intelligence), Bayer Italia (digitalisation), Smet Group (innovation), Abb – Electrification Smart Power (management), IBM Italia (crisis and digitalisation), Novartis Italia (AI and health) and Fincantieri (new technologies and work).
De Felice and Race’s book thus traces the age-old question of the limits and excesses of technologies, the risks of innovation and the need to come up with an ethical code for development. It is a book that fulfils the one true task of all books: to make people think and reason, and to enable the reader to learn more about the world. It is a book to be read. And to be re-read.
Il mondo nuovissimo. Dialoghi su etica e intelligenza artificiale (The Brand-New World. Dialogues on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence)
Fabio De Felice, Roberto Race
Luiss University press – Bellissima
2023
A series of recently published essays helps us to better understand the reality we are all about to live in
This is a new world, or rather a very new world. It’s not the America desired by millions of migrants. Nor is it the fabled land of plenty, or a world of milk and honey. This brand-new world is one in which we are all – for better or worse – already, or almost, immersed. It is the world of artificial intelligence, of digitisation, of innovation that permeates everything. A world, in other words, which some have already entered while many others, as mentioned above, are on the threshold of entering. It is a world we need to understand, to comprehend, to explore. Helping us in this (alongside other works) is the collection of conversations and essays contained in the recently published Il mondo nuovissimo. Dialoghi su etica e intelligenza artificiale (The Brand-New World. Dialogues on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence), written and edited by Fabio de Felice (professor of engineering at the Parthenope University of Naples) and Roberto Race (a consultant in corporate and reputation strategy).
A brand-new world, therefore, that requires careful exploration. This book supports us – a great deal – in this undertaking, and it does so in two stages. First, with a series of conversations between the two editors (the use of dialogue in the style of classical philosophising is distinct and original); then a series of seven in-depth studies that look more closely at the world of business.
In their dialogue, De Felice and Race address a number of widely applicable topics that range from art to ethics and take in the consequences of the pandemic, the true nature of technology, models of “ambient intelligence” and artificial intelligence itself, so-called “digital colonialism” and the modern meaning of censorship.
They then turn to companies, through a number of executives who delve into specific topics, with experiences and suggestions taken from work in companies such as Engineering (Artificial Intelligence), Bayer Italia (digitalisation), Smet Group (innovation), Abb – Electrification Smart Power (management), IBM Italia (crisis and digitalisation), Novartis Italia (AI and health) and Fincantieri (new technologies and work).
De Felice and Race’s book thus traces the age-old question of the limits and excesses of technologies, the risks of innovation and the need to come up with an ethical code for development. It is a book that fulfils the one true task of all books: to make people think and reason, and to enable the reader to learn more about the world. It is a book to be read. And to be re-read.
Il mondo nuovissimo. Dialoghi su etica e intelligenza artificiale (The Brand-New World. Dialogues on Ethics and Artificial Intelligence)
Fabio De Felice, Roberto Race
Luiss University press – Bellissima
2023