Autonomy, authenticity, and recommendation algorithms. Algorithmic recommenders increasingly shape experience, from entertainment and work, to encountering ideas and people. Because future interests are predicted from our past preferences, recommenders function by recycling who we have already been, and that recursivity raises new questions about personal identity, freedom, and authenticity. There are also questions about breaking out of the algorithmic feedback loop: How can we diverge from who we have been? What does that mean in lived experience? How could it be accomplished theoretically, technically, and practically?
Mapping AI avant-gardes in time: posthumanism, transhumanism, genhumanism, 2023, Discover Artificial Intelligence. DOI: 10.1007/s44163-023-00080-6. Text.
The Dilemma Between Euphoria and Freedom in Recommendation Algorithms, 2025. Annali di studi religiosi. Centro per le Scienze Religiose of the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, University of Trento, Italy. Forthcoming. Text.
Recommendations Algorithms, Freedom, Genhumanism. 2025. at AI Between Freedom and Servitude, University of Trento Law School, University of Trento. Deck Video.
The Freedom Recommendation. 2025. Roundtable hosted by Alma Mater Artificial Intelligence Center, Alma Mater Europaea University, Austria, February 8, 2025. Deck Video.
Predicting the unpredictable: re-engineering recommendation algorithms for freedom, society, and money. 2025. Speck and Tech, Trento, Italy. Video.
Deleuze’s Postscript on the Societies of Control Updated for Big Data and Predictive Analytics, 2020, Theoria 67 (164):1-25. DOI:10.3167/th.2020.6716401. Text.
What to Do When Privacy is Gone, 2019, CEPE (Computer Ethics—Philosophical Enquiry) - International Society for Ethics and Information Technology, Old Dominion University, Norfolk Virginia: DOI:10.25884/798y-hr54. Text.
Inside the Big Data Experience Machine, 2019, Ai4 R Conference, New York City: Talk, Deck.
Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data, First Monday, Vol. 24, No 5 – 6, University of Illinois at Chicago: May 2019. DOI:10.5210/fm.v24i5.9624. Text.
Ethics of Identity in the Time of Big Data, 2018, 25th Annual International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference, St. John's University, New York City: Text.
Ethics of Disintegrating Identity in the Time of Big Data, 2019, Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Boston, Massachusetts: Talk, Deck.
How AI Generates Creativity from Inauthenticity, 2024, in book "Artificial Creativity," ed. Micalizzi, 978-3-031-88333-0, Springer. Artificial Creativity Conference, Pegaso University, Milan. Text.
The AI Human Condition, 2022, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy. Presentation. Video.
What Does it Mean to be a Digital Nomad? 2022, Turkish Policy Quarterly, Vol 20, No. 4. Text.
Euphoria Convenience, 2020, Data Science Salon, Virtual. Talk.
Is no privacy the best AI privacy policy? 2020, AI Policy Exchange, June 26. National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Text.
What is Big Data Vandalism? 2019, Global AI in Boston, Conference: Talk, Deck.
How Much Writing is Enough? 2014, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, New York City: Text.
El trabajo sin lugar de trabajo: tecnología social y eliminación del espacio en la vida laboral, 2014, Panorama Social 17 (Spain), La Fundación de las Cajas de Ahorros, Spain, Primer Semestre.
What is Dignity, and Why Does It Exempt ChatGPT from Ethics?, 2021, Medium. Text.
Acceleration AI ethics applies to the debate between innovation and safety in technological development. Are innovation’s accompanying problems best solved with still more innovation? Or, should the guarantee of safety precede technological advance? The acceleration response is the first, and the work of acceleration ethics is to investigate the fundamental values supporting the approach.
Acceleration AI Ethics, the Debate between Innovation and Safety, and Stability AI’s Diffusion versus OpenAI’s Dall-E , 2023, International Conference on Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry (CEPE). Illinois Institute of Technology. Chicago, IL, United States. Text Video Conference text
A Case Study in Acceleration AI Ethics: The TELUS GenAI Conversational Agent. 2025. Forthcoming. PrePrint
How Ethics Diverges between American and European AI. 2025. BioLaw Journal – Rivista di BioDiritto, forthcoming
AI Ethics Decentralized and Accelerated, 2021, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Information For All conference, New York City, 28 September. Program. Talk.
Acceleration is the Right Ethics for Web3, 2023, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023. Video
Ethics Interview for Web3, 2023, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023. Video
How to Accelerate Ethics for Innovation and Against Precaution in Generative AI , 2023, International Association of Computing and Philosophy Conference (IACAP), Prague. Text Deck
Building a case for decentralised AI ethics, October 18, 2021, Digital Frontiers, Observer Research Foundation. Text.
Acceleration is the right ethics for web3 and decentralized communities, Open Data and Infrastructure Summit 2023, Virtual. Video 1 Video 2
Inside the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: For a Decentralized Approach. Interview by Marco Emanuele. October 27, 2021, The Science of Where. Text.
AI ethics evaluations are pursued through three steps. First, a socio-technical scenario is developed to explain the AI tool in language that crosses applicable domains. In the case of a medical tool, the domains would include ethics, computer science, medicine, law, and business. Second, the evaluation is executed by applying the ethical values to the tool, and by applying the tool’s use to the values. Finally, a report documents the process and may propose recommendations.
AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, Journal of Sustainable Finance & Investment. DOI:10.1080/20430795.2021.1874212. PrePrint.
What a Philosopher Learned at an AI Ethics Evaluation, 2020, AI Ethics Journal, 2020, 1(1)-4. DOI:10.47289/AIEJ20201214. Text.
A Process to Assess Trustworthy AI, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 83-97, June. DOI:10.1109/TTS.2021.3066209.
An Ethics Framework for the Internet of Musical Things, 2024, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. DOI: 10.1109/TTS.2024.3398423. Text.
From the Ground Truth Up: Doing AI Ethics from Practice to Principles, 2022, AI and Society. DOI: 10.1007/s00146-021-01336-4. PrePrint. Discussion.
Using edge cases to disentangle fairness and solidarity in AI ethics, 2021, AI and Ethics. DOI:10.1007/s43681-021-00090-z. Text.
Assessing Trustworthy AI in times of COVID-19. Deep Learning for predicting a multi-regional score conveying the degree of lung compromise in COVID-19 patients, 2022, IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society. DOI:10.1109/TTS.2022.3195114.
AI Human Impact: Updating ESG Investing for AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, 30th Annual Association for Practical and Professional Ethics International Conference (Virtual), February 25-27. Talk.
How to put AI ethics into practice? AI Human Impact, 2020, AI Policy Exchange, National Law School of India University, Bangalore. Talk
AI Human Impact: Toward a Model for Ethical Investing in AI-Intensive Companies, 2021, AI Asia Pacific Institute Podcast. Podcast.
On Assessing Trustworthy AI in Healthcare. Machine Learning as a Supportive Tool to Recognize Cardiac Arrest in Emergency Calls. 2021. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, vol 3. DOI:10.3389/fhumd.2021.673104
Co-Design of a Trustworthy AI System in Healthcare: Deep Learning Based Skin Lesion Classifier. 2021. Frontiers in Human Dynamics, vol 3. DOI:10.3389/fhumd.2021.688152
Equitable AI Audits: evaluating the evaluators in today’s world. 2024. 17th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance (ICEGOV 2024), October 1–4, 2024, Pretoria, South Africa. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 8 pages. DOI: 10.1145/3680127.3680140. Text
Inclusion Ethics in AI: Use Cases in African Fashion , 2024, Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) Spring Symposium Series, Stanford University, Vol. 3 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaaiss.v3i1.31266 Text.
Why automatic AI ethics evaluations are coming, and how they will work, with Giovana Meloni Craveiro, 2022, Journal of AI, Robotics & Workplace Automation, 1.4. Henry Stewart Publications. Text.
AI ethics as an Investment Strategy, 2020, Global Big Data Conference, Virtual. Deck.
Due Diligence in AI: the path towards the AI Act into force, 2023, Ital-IA, Pisa, Italy. Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
Exploring the Complexities of AI Ethics, 2021, Leaders of Analytics Podcast. Podcast.
Decadence of the French Nietzsche argues that the relation between thinking and truth reverses in some aspects of post-Nietzschean philosophy. We do not have thought to reach truth, instead, we have truths to catalyze more thinking. For decadents, every philosophic conclusion is valued purely in terms of its ability to generate more thought. It is unclear whether this is a desirable development. Deleuze is a principle figure, as well as Derrida and Foucault. Finally, the concept of decadence is investigated in terms of human experience.
Decadence of the French Nietzsche, 2006, Rowman and Littlefield, Text.
What is Decadent Philosophy, 2005, At Philosophy Talks 2005 Conference, California State University, Fullerton, Text.
Introduction to Decadence of the French Nietzsche
What is decadence in philosophy? How does it come between Rorty and Deleuze? 2009, 42nd Meeting North Texas Philosophical Association, Dallas, TX. Text.
What is Decadent Philosophy, 2000, Jornada Filosófica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexcio City, Text.
Two Relations between Thinking and Truth, 1999, Trent University, Canada, Text.
How Much Writing is Enough? 2014, Derrida Today Conference, Fordham University, New York City, Text.
Isolated Experiences argues for the radical discontinuity of personal identity, and the emergence of new personal identities, within the larger context of Gilles Deleuze’s reversal of Platonism. The theoretical foundation is the metaphysics of difference as developed by Deleuze, Georges Bataille, and Nietzsche. Practically, the experience of discontinuity in personal identity is explored through literary works, including the writings of the nomadic traveler Isabelle Eberhardt.
Isolated Experiences: Gilles Deleuze and the Solitudes of Reversed Platonism, State University of New York, 1997: Text.
Selection: Nouns and Verbs
Emily, the Patient, Bliss, Deleuze, 1997, Synthesis, Vol. 2 No. 2. University of Tennessee and Paradigm Press, Fall: 37-49.