Author: Filippo
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Am I an impostor? Teaching and performance
I loved Javier Cercas’ book, and I wondered whether my teaching style makes me close to his protagonist In The Impostor, Javier Cercas tells the true story of Enric Marco, a Spanish man who for many years pretended to be who he was not: a fierce partisan during the Spanish civil war and even an inmate…
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Ethics of self-driving cars – 10 years after
Some reflections while preparing a new course at TU/e: some of my oldest ideas still hold: moral dilemmas about crash avoidance are a good conversation start but not the way to go, my 2017 paper is still good, and – I should have read JafariNaimi’s paper before. It was in 2015 that I started working…
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What is computational propaganda, how can it be countered by design and without compromising freedom of expression, the rule of law and justice?
I have addressed these questions in a paper written with Marlijn Heijnen. (The full paper here, here below is an abstract.) “Computational propaganda” (CP) aka “cognitive warfare” refers to the use of algorithms (e.g., AI bots that mimic people), to purposefully distribute misleading information over social media and other internet platforms to influence how citizens…
Filippo Santoni de Sio 