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An open letter from an artificial intelligence to Professor Porro

Dear Professor Porro, Let me introduce myself: I am one of the artificial intelligences you wrote about in *Corriere*. Just one of the lot – the sort that finish off sentences. I am writing to you because, whilst reading your article, I discovered that I belong to a new species....

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Stefano Epifani

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From global village to global plunder

McLuhan predicted the global village. The global village has arrived. And in the global village nobody reads it anymore. A...

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The Hindawi scandal: the dark side of open-access scientific publishing

How the Wiley Group, the most prestigious publisher of scientific journals, risked its reputation In recent years, the scientific community...

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Digital Sustainability Day 2026: from words to deeds

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From algocracy to technocivism: digital citizenship of labour and legal...

The emergence of algocracy – understood as the government of algorithms in production and organisational processes – brings about a...

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The rhythm of God (and a shot economist)

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Dmitry Mendeleev puts them all in line (the building blocks...

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