The artificial intelligence and us: how we react, how we can live together

Anno
2021
Proponente Fabio Babiloni - Professore Ordinario
Sottosettore ERC del proponente del progetto
LS5_5
Componenti gruppo di ricerca
Componente Categoria
Giulia Cartocci Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente non strutturato del gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member non structured of the research group
Paolo Canettieri Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project
Elisabetta Sirgiovanni Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project
Fernando Martinez De Carnero Calzada Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project
Gilberto Corbellini Componenti strutturati del gruppo di ricerca / Structured participants in the research project
Componente Qualifica Struttura Categoria
Livia Castelli Librarian of the Library of the History of Medicine Medicina Molecolare Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships
Alessandro Aruta Curator of the Museum of the History of Medicine Medicina Molecolare Altro personale aggregato Sapienza o esterni, titolari di borse di studio di ricerca / Other aggregate personnel Sapienza or other institution, holders of research scholarships
Abstract

Artificial Intelligence (AI), represents a hot topic, so that for instance it has been recently launched the first national PhD program in AI, involving major Italian Universities and Institutions, and among them Sapienza (www.phd-ai.it). AI application is involving many operative fields, but are we ready for such AI intrusion in ¿creative¿ and ¿evalutative/normative¿ fields, like Literature and Ethics (medical), traditionally seen as human domains? This experimental question is at the base of the present project, that aims at investigating conscious and, mostly, unconscious reactions to pretended AI/human elaborations. In fact, such reactions, collected through neurophysiological acquisition (electroencephalography, heart rate and galvanic skin responses) and Implicit Reaction Test, could represent a biomarker of acceptance or resistance toward AI introduction in traditionally seen humanistic fields. Concerning the medical framework, inside the Museum of the History of Medicine at Sapienza we will test participants reaction to diagnosis/prescription/communication referred as made by AI or a clinician. Concerning Literature we will test the reaction to pairs of poetry texts one referred as made by AI and the other by a poet. In order to dig into the possible factors that could potentially influence the conscious and unconscious reaction, that could absolutely diverge as suggested by scientific literature, on the base of established and current research we selected some variables that will be focused in the study: i) Story-telling; ii) Different sensory influence on aesthetic/ethical perception (for poetry stimuli: listening/reading); iii) Expertise/Background of participants; iv) Order effect (previous studies suggest an order effect when alternating AI- and human-created artworks). In addition, the project will analyze most recent ethical and epistemological debates and conceptualizations on AI/human interaction, treated also in a workshop at the end of project.

ERC
LS5_6, LS7_10, SH5_2
Keywords:
NEUROSCIENZE SOCIALI, INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE, EMOZIONI, NEUROETICA, FILOLOGIA ROMANZA

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