Paolo Benanti is widely known for introducing the concept of “algorethics”, an ethical framework for governing algorithms and digital technologies. This book shows how the transformation through which we have digitized the world, and now govern it through computation, is not merely a form of power but the contemporary face of power itself. If machines are the mirror in which society reflects itself, we must ask what is now being reflected in that mirror: an increasingly invisible, diffuse, and pervasive power that challenges us to rethink concepts such as freedom, justice, and democracy in an age where data has become the new currency and algorithms the new legislators.
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Paolo Benanti
Paolo Benanti is an Italian moral philosopher and one of Europe’s leading voices on the ethics of artificial intelligence. A Franciscan friar, theologian, he is a member of the United Nations’ New Artificial Intelligence Advisory Board and serves as President of the Italian Government’s Commission on AI for Information. He teaches at the Pontifical Gregorian University and at LUISS University in Rome. He served as an influential advisor to Pope Francis on artificial intelligence, technology ethics, and bioethics.