Ongoing research projects, among them the Brazilian SPIRA and SoundCov initiatives, seek to diagnose Covid-19 and severe respiratory insufficiency through the analysis of voice recordings. The voice recordings may also be used to infer information …
Happy New Year, everyone! The start of this new year also brings my second term in Italy, after a very productive (but exhausting!) first term. In the last few months, I learned much and meet various colleagues and professors, and joined some interesting projects. However, I have not blogged as much as I planned, and that is something I intend to change, as blog posts seem a good medium for texts that are too big for a reasonable Twitter thread and too informal (or still undeveloped) for a paper.
Automated decision-making systems are becoming increasingly common in various public and private sector applications. Since many of the decisions made by such systems rely on personal data as input or generate outputs that can be associated to …
Concerns about “black box” machine learning algorithms have led many data protection laws and regulations to establish a right to human intervention on decision-making supported by artificial intelligence. Such interventions are presented as a means …
Technologies based in machine learning and artificial technology play a growing role in modern societies, altering existing social dynamics or even introducing new modes of interpersonal interaction. Those changes become relevant for legal philosophy …
Investigating how simulations of social phenomena are used in academia and elsewhere as decision-aiding tools.