The right to know the motivation of a decision made by artificial intelligence is difficult to enforce. Europe therefore aims to strengthen the stance of users through procedural obligations on platforms, explains Oreste Pollicino
Privacy rules, automated algorithms, and increasing opportunities for companies to track users both online and offline have a major impact on an already complex marketing ecosystem, Sara Valentini explains
Machines Get It Wrong: How to Avoid that Woman and Gay Are Mistaken as Bad Words
by Fabio Todesco
Systems to automatically detect online hate can classify terms used to identify victims of homophobic or misogynistic attacks, such as gay or woman, as offensive. A new tool succeeds in mitigating the problem
Dirk Hovy suggests a fairer way for automatic translation systems to deal with modern pronouns and advocates technologies that adapt to the users, instead of the opposite
When called upon to complete neutral sentences, popular language models most often use hurtful words if the subject is a woman rather than a man, and even more so if the subject is LGBTQIA+
Fellowships for Scholars Affected by the War in Ukraine
by Weiwei Chen
A call for up to three fellowships at the Bocconi Lab for European Studies for postdoctoral candidates of any nationality who are directly affected by the war
IGIER Visiting Student Ruyue Li reports on the recent IGIER Policy Seminar with Massimo Motta (UPF), Steve Tadelis (Berkeley) And Antonio Butta' (Agcom)
A New Life for a Major Social Science Research Project About Our Lives
Francesco Billari is Italy's representative in a consortium monitoring longterm demographic trends, newly funded with a Horizon Europe grant
Giacinto della Cananea Wins Accademia dei Lincei Prize
President of the Republic Sergio Mattarella will attend the award ceremony
Computer Science to Aid Oncology Research
Francesca Buffa is among the coordinators of a research project on biomarkers in glioblastoma patients financed by Fondazione Celeghin
The Academy of Management Honors Bocconi Research
Franco Malerba and Stefano Breschi's paper on gender bias against women entrepreneurs wins a diversity award
Artificial Intelligence to Help Breast Cancer Patients
Oriana Ciani follows for Bocconi the Cinderella project for a greater involvement of patients in choosing surgical techniques that preserve their quality of life after surgery
Filippo De Marco Wins the 9th SUERF/UniCredit Foundation Prize
The prize was reserved for research papers on factors affecting postCOVID nonperforming loans
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