
Luciano Floridi‘s research areas are the philosophy of Information, information and computer ethics, and the philosophy of technology.
Professor Luciano Floridi
Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information and Director of the Digital Ethics Lab
Profile
He is the OII’s Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute. Still in Oxford, he is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy, and Research Associate and Fellow in Information Policy of the Department of Computer Science. Outside Oxford, he is Faculty Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute (the national institute for data science) and Chair of its Data Ethics Group; and Adjunct Professor (“Distinguished Scholar in Residence”) of the Department of Economics, American University, Washington D.C.
His research concerns primarily Information and Computer Ethics (aka Digital Ethics), the Philosophy of Information, and the Philosophy of Technology. Other research interests include Epistemology, Philosophy of Logic, and the History and Philosophy of Scepticism. He has published over a 150 papers in these areas, in many anthologies and peer-reviewed journals. His works have been translated into many languages, including Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.
His lifetime project is a tetralogy (not his term) on the foundation of the philosophy of information, called Principia Philosophiae Informationis.
His most recent books are: The Fourth Revolution – How the infosphere is reshaping human reality (Oxford University Press, 2014); The Ethics of Information (Oxford University Press, 2013, volume two of the tetralogy ); The Philosophy of Information (Oxford University Press, 2011, volume one of the tetralogy); Information – A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2010). He has edited many volumes, including The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information (Wiley-Blackwell, 2003); The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2010); and The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Information (Routledge, 2016).
His previous books include Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology – A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies (Brill, 1996); Internet – An Epistemological Essay (Il Saggiatore, 1997); Philosophy and Computing: An Introduction (Routledge, 1999); and Sextus Empiricus, The Recovery and Transmission of Pyrrhonism (Oxford University Press, 2002).
He was born in Rome in 1964. He was educated at Rome University La Sapienza, where he graduated in philosophy (laurea) in 1988, first class with distinction, after serving in the army (compulsory). His MPhil (1989; originally a one-year MA, the two-year MPhil was awarded in recognition of the quality of the thesis) and PhD (1990) are both in philosophy, from the University of Warwick. He worked on philosophical logic as a graduate student with Susan Haack (Warwick) then as a postdoc with Michael Dummett (Oxford).
He was lecturer in philosophy at the University of Warwick in 1990-1. He joined the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Oxford in 1990 and then the Department of Computer Science in 1999. He was Junior Research Fellow (JRF = postdoc) in Philosophy at Wolfson College, University of Oxford in 1990-4. Later, he was Francis Yates Fellow in the History of Ideas at the Warburg Institute, University of London in 1994–95, and Research Fellow in Philosophy at Wolfson College in 1994-2001. During these years in Oxford, he held several lecturerships in different Colleges and taught a variety of subjects, from Ancient Philosophy to Wittgenstein and Mathematical Logic. Between 1994 and 1996, he also held a post-doctoral research scholarship at the Department of Philosophy, Università degli Studi di Torino. Between 2001 and 2006, he was Markle Foundation Senior Research Fellow in Information Policy at the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, University of Oxford. Between 2002 and 2008, he was Associate Professor of Logic (tenure) at the Università degli Studi di Bari. Between 2009 and 2014, he was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, where he held the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics. Between 2006 and 2017, he was Fellow by Special Election of St Cross College.
Between 2006 and 2010, he was President of IACAP (International Association for Computing And Philosophy). In 2009, he became the first philosopher to be elected Gauss Professor by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Still in 2009, he was awarded the Barwise Prize by the American Philosophical Association in recognition of his research on the philosophy of information, and was elected Fellow of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour. In 2010, he was appointed Editor-in-Chief of Springer’s new journal Philosophy & Technology and elected Fellow of the Center for Information Policy Research, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. In 2011, he was awarded a laurea honoris causa by the University of Suceava, Romania, for his research on the philosophy of information.
In 2012, he was appointed Chairman of the expert group, organised by the DG INFSO of the European Commission, on the impact of information and communication technologies on the digital transformations occurring in the European society. Still in 2012, he was the recipient of the Covey Award, by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy, for “outstanding research in philosophy and computing”. He was then the recipient of the Weizenbaum Award for 2013 for his “significant contribution to the field of information and computer ethics, through his research, service, and vision” (the Award is given every two years by the International Society for Ethics and Information Technology). Still in 2013, he was elected Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and Member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences (MAIPS). In 2014, he awarded a Cátedras de Excelencia by the University Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) for his work on the philosophy and ethics of information. In 2015, he was elected Fernand Braudel Senior Fellow of the European University Institute. In 2016, he received the Copernicus Scientist Award by the Institute of Advanced Studies of the University of Ferrara. He also received the J. Ong Award by the Media Ecology Association for my book The Fourth Revolution; and the Malpensa Prize, by the city of Guarcino, Italy. In 2017, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Floridi is deeply engaged with emerging policy initiatives on the socio-ethical value and implications of digital technologies and their applications. And he has worked closely on digital ethics (including the ethics of algorithms and AI) with the European Commission, the German Ethics Council, and, in the UK, with the House of Lords, the Cabinet Office, and the Information Commissioner’s Office, as well as with multinational corporations (e.g. Cisco, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Tencent). Currently, he is a Member of the EU’s Ethics Advisory Group on Ethical Dimensions of Data Protection, of the Royal Society and British Academy Working Group on Data Policy, of Google Advisory Board on “the right to be forgotten”, of the Advisory Board of Tencent’s Internet and Society Institute, and of NEXA’ Board of Trustees. He is the Chairman of the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework (a €56 million EU project on medical informatics).
In the past, he was Co-chairman of the Ethics in Data Science Working Group, British Cabinet Office, Chairman of the European Commission’s project The Onlife Initiative – rethinking public spaces in the digital transition, on which the call ‘ICT 31-2014: Human-centric Digital Age’ within Horizon 2020 is based (the outcome of the project, The Onlife Manifesto, is open access and freely available online). He was a member of the Ethics Strategic Panel of the British Computer Society (2010-2013), responsible for reviewing the national Code of Conduct for IT professionals. He co-authored the UNESCO Code of Ethics for the Information Society (UNESCO Information for All Programme 2009), in view of developing a UNESCO Declaration to be submitted to the General Conference.
Areas of Interest for Doctoral Supervision
Philosophy, activism, big data, censorship, cultural industries, power, ethics, governance, inequality, innovation, open data, privacy, security, social media, surveillance, trust
Research interests
information and computer ethics, philosophy of information, philosophy of technology
Positions held at the OII
- Director of Research, April 2014 – December 2016
- Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, September 2013 –
- Director of the Digital Ethics Lab, May 2017 –
Students supervised at the OII
Current students
Research
Current projects
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A European Ethical Code for Posthumous Medical Data Donation
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi
This project explores a broadened understanding of data uses in respect of European fundamental rights and investigates an AI governance model for sensitive data use.
Past projects
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PETRAS: Internet of Things (IoT) Research Hub
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
The PETRAS IoT Research Hub is a consortium of 9 UK universities working together to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
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A European Ethical Code for Data Donation
Participants: Dr Jenny Krutzinna, Professor Luciano Floridi
This project will investigate the possibility of a European Code for Data Donation, its feasibility, its advantages, and the possible difficulties that may be encountered in its formulation and adoption.
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Real world outcomes across the Alzheimer’s Disease spectrum for better care: Multi-modal data access platform (ROADMAP)
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Brent Mittelstadt, Dr Andrew Turner, Dr Jenny Krutzinna
ROADMAP aims to create the conditions for an open collaboration among stakeholders that yields consensual and efficient uses of real world evidence for the benefit of Alzheimer's Disease patients and their caregivers.
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An Ethical Framework for the New Civic Responsibilities of Online Service Providers
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Mariarosaria Taddeo
This project aims to analyse the new civic responsibilities of Online Service Providers, and the policies regulating them.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data
Participants: Professor Luciano Floridi, Dr Brent Mittelstadt
This project seeks to investigate the ethical aspects and requirements of Big Data in preparation to develop a European framework for the ethical use of Big Data in biomedical research.
Featured
- (2019) "Key Ethical Challenges in the European Medical Information Framework", Minds and Machines. 29 (3) 355-371.
- (2018) "How AI can be a force for good", Science. 361 (6404) 751-752.
- (2018) "Prolegomena to a White Paper on an Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society", Social Science Research NetworkSocial Science Research Network.
- (2018) "Soft Ethics: Its Application to the General Data Protection Regulation and Its Dual Advantage", Philosophy & Technology. 31 (2) 163-167.
- (2018) "Artificial Intelligence Crime: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreseeable Threats and Solutions", Sci. Eng. EthicsSocial Science Research Network. 26 (1) 89-120.
- (2018) "Treating brainwaves is not an option", Nature. 557 (7705) 309.
- (2018) "Romans would have denied robots legal personhood", Nature. 557 (7705) 309.
- (2018) "Regulate Artificial Intelligence to Avert Cyber Arms Race", Nature. 556 (7701) 296-298.
- (2018) "Enabling Posthumous Medical Data Donation: A Plea for the Ethical Utilisation of Personal Health Data", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 25 (5) 1357-1387.
- (2018) "An Ethical Framework for the Digital Afterlife Industry", Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (5) 318-320.
- (2018) "Brave.Net.World: The Internet as a Disinformation Superhighway?", The Electronic Library. 14 (6) 509-514.
- (2018) "Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital", Philosophy & Technology. 31 (1) 1-8.
- (2018) "0 PERSPECTIVEROBOTICS The grand challenges of Science Robotics", Science Robotics. 3 (14) eaar7650.
- (2018) "What a maker?s knowledge could be", Synthese. 195 (1) 465-481.
- (2017) "Infraethics–on the Conditions of Possibility of Morality", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (4) 391-394.
- (2017) "The October 2014 United States Treasury bond flash crash and the contributory effect of mini flash crashes", PLOS ONE Hernandez Montoya, A.R. (eds.). 12 (11) e0186688.
- (2017) "The Unsustainable Fragility of the Digital, and What to Do About It", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (3) 259-261.
- (2017) "The Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information: A Critical Approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry", Minds and Machines. 27 (4) 639-662.
- (2017) "Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (2) 123-129.
- (2017) "Transparent, Explainable, and Accountable AI for Robotics", Science Robotics, Vol. 2. 2 (6) eaan6080.
- (2017) "A Plea for Non-Naturalism As Constructionism", Minds and Machines. 27 (2) 1-17.
- (2017) "A defence of constructionism: Philosophy as conceptual engineering", Pensamiento. 73 (276) 271-300.
- (2017) "The logic of design as a conceptual logic of information", Minds and Machines. 27 (3) 495-519.
- (2017) "The Ethics of Cloud Computing.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 23 (1) 21-39.
- (2016) "Faultless responsibility: on the nature and allocation of moral responsibility for distributed moral actions.", Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 374 (2083) 20160112.
- (2016) "On Human Dignity as a Foundation for the Right to Privacy", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (4) 307-312.
- (2016) "What is Data Ethics?", Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A. 374 (2083) 20160360.
- (2016) "The Ethics of Algorithms: Mapping the Debate", Big Data & Society. 3 (2) 205395171667967.
- (2016) "Crowdsourced Science: Sociotechnical Epistemology in the e-Research Paradigm", Synthese. 195 (2) 741-764.
- (2016) "Technology and Democracy: Three Lessons from Brexit", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (3) 189-193.
- (2016) "The Design of the Internet's Architecture by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Human Rights.", Science and engineering ethics. 23 (2) 449-468.
- (2016) "Introduction: The Philosophy of Information", Topoi. 35 (1) 157-159.
- (2016) The Fourth Revolution How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press, USA.
- (2016) "Mature Information Societies—a Matter of Expectations", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (1) 1-4.
- (2016) "Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm.", CoRR. abs/1610.09485.
- (2016) "Even Good Bots Fight.", CoRR. abs/1609.04285.
- (2016) "The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (6) 1575-1603.
- (2016) "Tolerant Paternalism: Pro-ethical Design as a Resolution of the Dilemma of Toleration.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (6) 1669-1688.
- (2016) "The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (2) 303-341.
- (2015) "A Proxy Culture", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (4) 487-490.
- (2015) "Toleration and the Design of Norms", Science and Engineering Ethics. 21 (5) 1095-1123.
- (2015) The Ethics of Information. Oxford University Press.
- (2015) "The New Grey Power", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (3) 329-332.
- (2015) "The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement: the ethical analysis of a failure, and its lessons", Ethics and Information Technology. 17 (2) 165-173.
- (2015) "Free Online Services: Enabling, Disenfranchising, Disempowering", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (2) 163-166.
- (2015) "On malfunctioning software", Synthese. 192 (4) 1199-1220.
- (2015) "The Politics of Uncertainty", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (1) 1-4.
- (2015) "Introduction" In: The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing. 1-3.
- (2015) "Luciano Floridi—Commentary on the Onlife Manifesto" In: The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing. 21-23.
- (2015) "Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies" In: The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing. 51-63.
- (2015) The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing.
- (2015) "The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement: the ethical analysis of a failure, and its lessons.", Ethics Inf. Technol.. 17 (2) 165-173.
- (2015) "On malfunctioning software.", Synth.. 192 (4) 1199-1220.
- (2015) "Toleration and the Design of Norms.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 21 (5) 1095-1123.
- (2014) "Technoscience and Ethics Foresight", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (4) 499-501.
- (2014) "The Latent Nature of Global Information Warfare", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (3) 317-319.
- (2014) "Technological Unemployment, Leisure Occupation, and the Human Project", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (2) 143-150.
- (2014) "Information closure and the sceptical objection", Synthese. 191 (6) 1037-1050.
- (2014) "Open Data, Data Protection, and Group Privacy", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (1) 1-3.
- (2014) The Ethics of Information WarfareLaw, Governance and Technology Series. Springer.
- (2014) "At the information desk", New York Review of Books. 61 (20) 96-97.
- (2014) "Hyperhistory and the philosophy of information policies", Mondo Digitale. 13 (50).
- (2014) "Information closure and the sceptical objection.", Synth.. 191 (6) 1037-1050.
- (2013) "Things", Philosophy & Technology. 26 (4) 349-352.
- (2013) "An analysis of information visualisation", Synthese. 190 (16) 3421-3438.
- (2013) The Ethics of Information. Oxford University Press.
- (2013) "E-ducation and the Languages of Information", Philosophy & Technology. 26 (3) 247-251.
- (2013) "Technology’s In-Betweeness", Philosophy & Technology. 26 (2) 111-115.
- (2013) "What is A Philosophical Question?", Metaphilosophy. 44 (3) 195-221.
- (2013) "Information Quality", Philosophy & Technology. 26 (1) 1-6.
- (2013) The Philosophy of Information. OUP Oxford.
- (2013) The Philosophy of Information. OUP Oxford.
- (2013) "What is Visualization Really for?", CoRR. abs/1305.5670 75-93.
- (2013) "Distributed Morality in an Information Society.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 19 (3) 727-743.
- (2013) "Perception and Testimony as Data Providers", Logique et Analyse. 71-95.
- (2013) "Perception and Testimony as Data Providers", Logique et Analyse. 57 (226) 151-179.
- (2013) "An analysis of information visualisation.", Synth.. 190 (16) 3421-3438.
- (2012) "Big Data and Their Epistemological Challenge", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (4) 435-437.
- (2012) "Technologies of the Self", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (3) 271-273.
- (2012) "Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370 (1971) 3536-3542.
- (2012) "Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (2) 129-131.
- (2012) "Degenerate Epistemology", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (1) 1-3.
- (2012) "Semantic information and the network theory of account.", Synth.. 184 (3) 431-454.
- (2012) "An Empirical Study on Using Visual Embellishments in Visualization.", IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph.. 18 (12) 2759-2768.
- (2011) "The New Ethical Responsibilities of Internet Service Providers", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (4) 369-370.
- (2011) "Children of the Fourth Revolution", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (3) 227-232.
- (2011) "Energy, Risks, and Metatechnology", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (2) 89-94.
- (2011) "The Philosophy of Information: Ten Years Later" In: Putting Information First. Wiley-Blackwell. 153-170.
- (2011) "A DEFENCE OF CONSTRUCTIONISM: PHILOSOPHY AS CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING", Metaphilosophy. 42 (3) 282-304.
- (2011) "Harmonising Physis and Techne: The Mediating Role of Philosophy", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (1) 1-3.
- (2011) "Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth", Erkenntnis. 74 (2) 147-175.
- (2011) "The case for e-trust", Ethics and Information Technology. 13 (1) 1-3.
- (2011) "The Construction of Personal Identities Online.", Minds Mach.. 21 (4) 477-479.
- (2011) "The Informational Nature of Personal Identity.", Minds Mach.. 21 (4) 549-566.
- (2010) "Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth", Erkenntnis. 1-29.
- (2010) "Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism", Synthese. 175 (S1) 63-88.
- (2010) "THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION: TEN YEARS LATER", Metaphilosophy. 41 (3) 402-419.
- (2010) Information: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- (2010) "The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework", Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 1-31.
- (2010) "The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework", Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 1-29.
- (2010) "Levels of abstraction and the Turing test.", Kybernetes. 39 (3) 423-440.
- (2009) "Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society", Journal of Business Ethics. 90 (4) 649-659.
- (2009) "Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society", Journal of Business Ethics. 90 (S4) 649-659.
- (2009) "The ethics of information transparency", Ethics and Information Technology. 11 (2) 105-112.
- (2009) "Information Technology" In: A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology. Wiley-Blackwell. 227-231.
- (2009) "Web 2.0 vs. the Semantic Web: A Philosophical Assessment", Episteme. 6 (1) 25-37.
- (2009) "Foundations of Information Ethics" In: The Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 1-23.
- (2009) "The enduring scandal of deduction.", Synth.. Springer Science and Business Media LLC. 167 (2) 271-315.
- (2009) "The Information Society and Its Philosophy: Introduction to the Special Issue on "The Philosophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments".", Inf. Soc.. 25 (3) 153-158.
- (2009) "Philosophical Conceptions of Information.", Formal Theories of Information Sommaruga, G. (eds.)Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer. 5363 13-53.
- (2009) "Logical fallacies as informational shortcuts.", Synth.. 167 (2) 317-325.
- (2009) "Against digital ontology.", Synth.. 168 (1) 151-178.
- (2009) "Turing's Imitation Game: Still an Impossible Challenge for All Machines and Some Judges-An Evaluation of the 2008 Loebner Contest.", Minds Mach.. 19 (1) 145-150.
- (2008) "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'S NEW FRONTIER: ARTIFICIAL COMPANIONS AND THE FOURTH REVOLUTION", Metaphilosophy. 39 (4-5) 651-655.
- (2008) "The Method of Levels of Abstraction", Minds and Machines, September 2008. 18 (3) 303-329.
- (2008) "Information ethics: a reappraisal", Ethics and Information Technology. 10 (2-3) 189-204.
- (2008) "Understanding Epistemic Relevance", Erkenntnis. 69 (1) 69-92.
- (2008) "Information Ethics: Its Nature and Scope" In: Information Technology and Moral Philosophy. Cambridge University Press. 40-65.
- (2008) "TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION" In: Philosophy of Information. Elsevier. 113-131.
- (2008) "The ethics of information transparency", TRANSPARENCY, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATION. 87-+.
- (2008) "A defence of informational structural realism.", Synth.. 161 (2) 219-253.
- (2007) "Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest", International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI). 3 (3) 1-11.
- (2007) "A Praxical Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem.", Minds Mach.. 17 (4) 369-389.
- (2007) "A look into the future impact of ICT on our lives", http://www.thephilosophyofinformation.net/blog/. 23 (1) 59-64.
- (2006) "Information technologies and the tragedy of the Good Will", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (4) 253-262.
- (2006) "Information ethics: Agents, artefacts and new cultural perspectives", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (4) 155-156.
- (2006) "The logic of being informed", Logique et Analyse. 49 (196) 433-460.
- (2006) "Four challenges for a theory of informational privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (3) 109-119.
- (2006) "Informational privacy and its ontological interpretation.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (3) 37-40.
- (2006) "Information ethics, its nature and scope.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (3) 21-36.
- (2006) "Informational privacy and its ontological interpretation.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (1) 1.
- (2005) "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 7 (4) 185-200.
- (2005) "For a philosophy of information", Epistemologia. 28 (2) 283-292.
- (2005) "The Philosophy of Information and its Problems", Iride. 18 (45) 291-312.
- (2005) "Is Semantic Information Meaningful Data?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 70 (2) 351-370.
- (2005) "Information ethics, its nature and scope.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 35 (2) 3.
- (2005) "The Philosophy of Information: A Methodological Point of View.", Wissensmanagement Althoff, K.-.D., Dengel, A., Bergmann, R., Nick, M. and Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds.). DFKI, Kaiserslautern. 130 563-570.
- (2005) "The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation.", Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ.. 14 (6) 656-667.
- (2005) "Solving the symbol grounding problem: a critical review of fifteen years of research.", J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell.. 17 (4) 419-445.
- (2005) "Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game.", Minds Mach.. 15 (3-4) 415-444.
- (2005) "How to Do Philosophy Informationally.", Wissensmanagement (LNCS Volume) Althoff, K.-.D., Dengel, A., Bergmann, R., Nick, M. and Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds.)Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3782 623-634.
- (2004) "Afterword LIS as applied philosophy of information: A reappraisal", Library Trends. 52 (3) 658-665.
- (2004) "Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information", Metaphilosophy. 35 (4) 554-582.
- (2004) "LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: A Reappraisal.", Libr. Trends. 52 658-665.
- (2004) "The tragedy of the digital commons", Ethics and Information Technology. 6 (2) 73-81.
- (2004) "On the Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem.", Synth.. 142 (1) 61-79.
- (2004) "On the Morality of Artificial Agents.", Minds Mach.. 14 (3) 349-379.
- (2004) "Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information.", Minds Mach.. 14 (2) 197-221.
- (2003) "From Data to Semantic Information.", Entropy. 5 (2) 125-145.
- (2003) "Two Approaches to the Philosophy of Information.", Minds Mach.. 13 (4) 459-469.
- (2002) "On defining library and information science as applied philosophy of information", Social Epistemology. 16 (1) 37-49.
- (2002) "Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 4 (1) 1-9.
- (2002) "On the intrinsic value of information objects and the infosphere", Ethics and Information Technology. 4 (4) 287-304.
- (2002) "What is the Philosophy of Information?", Metaphilosophy. 33 (1‐2) 123-145.
- (2001) "Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 3 (1) 55-66.
- (2000) "Mathematical skepticism: The cartesian approach", PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL 6. 217-265.
- (1999) "Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation of computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 1 (1) 37-56.
- (1999) "Does Information Have a Moral Worth in Itself?", Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry in Association with the ACM SIG on Computers and Society. Elsevier BV.
- (1998) "Logic and visual thinking", Iride. 11 (24) 343-358.
- (1996) "The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 2", The Electronic Library. 14 (1) 49-52.
- (1996) "The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 1", The Electronic Library. 14 (1) 43-48.
- (1996) "Internet: Which Future for Organized Knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?", Inf. Soc.. 12 (1) 5-16.
- (1995) "Internet: which future for organized knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?", Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.. 43 (2) 261-274.
- (1994) "The problem of the justification of a theory of knowledge", Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 25 (1) 17-49.
- (1994) "SKEPTICISM AND THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE, A PEIRCEISH ANSWER TO A KANTIAN DOUBT", TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY. 30 (3) 543-573.
- (1993) "The problem of the justification of a theory of knowledge", Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 24 (2) 205-233.
Books
- (2019) The Logic of Information A Theory of Philosophy as Conceptual Design. Oxford University Press.
- (2016) The Fourth Revolution How the Infosphere Is Reshaping Human Reality. Oxford University Press, USA.
- (2015) The Ethics of Information. Oxford University Press.
- (2015) The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing.
- (2014) The Philosophy of Information Quality. Springer International Publishing.
- (2014) Protection of Information and the Right to Privacy - A New Equilibrium?. Springer International Publishing.
- (2014) The Ethics of Information WarfareLaw, Governance and Technology Series. Springer.
- (2013) The Ethics of Information. Oxford University Press.
- (2013) The Philosophy of Information. OUP Oxford.
- (2013) The Philosophy of Information. OUP Oxford.
- (2013) Management of Broadband Technology and Innovation. Routledge.
- (2010) Information: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- (2010) Introduction. Oxford University Press.
- (2010) The Cambridge Handbook of Information and Computer Ethics. Cambridge University Press.
- (2004) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information. Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Chapters
- (2020) "On the morality of artificial agents" In: Machine Ethics and Robot Ethics. 317-347.
- (2017) "Preliminary Material" In: The Wycliffite Bible Origin, History and Interpretation. Brill. i-xxiv.
- (2015) "The fourth revolution in our selfunderstanding" In: Philosophy, Computing and Information Science. 19-28.
- (2015) "Introduction" In: The Onlife Manifesto. Springer International Publishing. 1-3.
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- (2020) Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems.
- (2020) "What the Near Future of Artificial Intelligence Could Be", Philosophy and Technology. 32 (1).
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- (2019) "The Explanation Game: A Formal Framework for Interpretable Machine Learning", Synthese.
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- (2019) "Ethical Aspects of Multi-stakeholder Recommendation Systems", The Information Society. 1-11.
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- (2019) Digital Psychiatry: Ethical Risks and Opportunities for Public Health and Well-Being.
- (2019) The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Policy and Regulation.
- (2019) "Marketing as Control of Human Interfaces and Its Political Exploitation", Philosophy and Technology. 32 (3) 379-388.
- (2019) "The Chinese Approach to Artificial Intelligence: An Analysis of Policy and Regulation", AI and Society.
- (2019) "Key Ethical Challenges in the European Medical Information Framework", Minds and Machines. 29 (3) 355-371.
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- (2019) "Enabling digital health companionship is better than empowerment", The Lancet Digital Health. 1 (4) e155-e156.
- (2019) How to Design a Governable Digital Health Ecosystem.
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- (2019) "Establishing the rules for building trustworthy AI", Nature Machine Intelligence. 1 (6) 261-262.
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- (2019) "The Ethics of Digital Well-Being: A Thematic Review", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 26 (4) 2313-2343.
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- (2018) "Semantic Capital: Its Nature, Value, and Curation", Philosophy and Technology. 31 (4) 481-497.
- (2018) "AI4People - An Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society: Opportunities, Risks, Principles, and Recommendations", Minds Mach.. 28 (4) 689-707.
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- (2018) "Towards the Ethical Publication of Country of Origin Information (COI) in the Asylum Process", Minds Mach.. 30 (2) 247-257.
- (2018) "Atypical Employment and Disability in the Digital Economy: Accountability Gap Leaves Disabled App Developers’ Rights Unprotected", Law, Innovation and Technology. 10 (2) 185-196.
- (2018) "Artificial Intelligence, Deepfakes and a Future of Ectypes", Philosophy & Technology. 31 (3) 317-321.
- (2018) "How AI can be a force for good", Science. 361 (6404) 751-752.
- (2018) "Prolegomena to a White Paper on an Ethical Framework for a Good AI Society", Social Science Research NetworkSocial Science Research Network.
- (2018) "Soft Ethics: Its Application to the General Data Protection Regulation and Its Dual Advantage", Philosophy & Technology. 31 (2) 163-167.
- (2018) "Artificial Intelligence Crime: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Foreseeable Threats and Solutions", Sci. Eng. EthicsSocial Science Research Network. 26 (1) 89-120.
- (2018) "Treating brainwaves is not an option", Nature. 557 (7705) 309.
- (2018) "Romans would have denied robots legal personhood", Nature. 557 (7705) 309.
- (2018) "Regulate Artificial Intelligence to Avert Cyber Arms Race", Nature. 556 (7701) 296-298.
- (2018) "Enabling Posthumous Medical Data Donation: A Plea for the Ethical Utilisation of Personal Health Data", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 25 (5) 1357-1387.
- (2018) "Oxidative stress and inflammation induced by environmental and psychological stressors: A biomarker perspective", Antioxidants and Redox Signaling. 28 (9) 852-872.
- (2018) "Theory of signs and statistical approach to big data in assessing the relevance of clinical biomarkers of inflammation and oxidative stress", Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115 (10) 2473-2477.
- (2018) "An Ethical Framework for the Digital Afterlife Industry", Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (5) 318-320.
- (2018) "Brave.Net.World: The Internet as a Disinformation Superhighway?", The Electronic Library. 14 (6) 509-514.
- (2018) "Soft Ethics and the Governance of the Digital", Philosophy & Technology. 31 (1) 1-8.
- (2018) "0 PERSPECTIVEROBOTICS The grand challenges of Science Robotics", Science Robotics. 3 (14) eaar7650.
- (2018) "What a maker?s knowledge could be", Synthese. 195 (1) 465-481.
- (2017) "Infraethics–on the Conditions of Possibility of Morality", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (4) 391-394.
- (2017) "The October 2014 United States Treasury bond flash crash and the contributory effect of mini flash crashes", PLOS ONE Hernandez Montoya, A.R. (eds.). 12 (11) e0186688.
- (2017) "The Unsustainable Fragility of the Digital, and What to Do About It", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (3) 259-261.
- (2017) "Una defensa del construccionismo: la filosofía como ingeniería conceptual", Pensamiento. Revista de Investigación e Información Filosófica. 73 (276 S.Esp) 271-300.
- (2017) "Why a Right to Explanation of Automated Decision-Making Does Not Exist in the General Data Protection Regulation", International Data Privacy Law. 7 (2) 76-99.
- (2017) "The Political Economy of Death in the Age of Information: A Critical Approach to the Digital Afterlife Industry", Minds and Machines. 27 (4) 639-662.
- (2017) "Digital’s Cleaving Power and Its Consequences", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (2) 123-129.
- (2017) "Transparent, Explainable, and Accountable AI for Robotics", Science Robotics, Vol. 2. (6).
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- (2017) "Robots, Jobs, Taxes, and Responsibilities", Philosophy & Technology. 30 (1) 1-4.
- (2017) "Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia.", PloS one. 12 (2) e0171774.
- (2017) "A Plea for Non-Naturalism As Constructionism", Minds and Machines. 27 (2) 1-17.
- (2017) "A defence of constructionism: Philosophy as conceptual engineering", Pensamiento. 73 (276) 271-300.
- (2017) "The logic of design as a conceptual logic of information", Minds and Machines. 27 (3) 495-519.
- (2017) "The Ethics of Cloud Computing.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 23 (1) 21-39.
- (2016) "Artificial Intelligence and the 'Good Society': The US, EU, and UK Approach", Science and engineering ethics. 24 (2) 505-528.
- (2016) "Faultless responsibility: on the nature and allocation of moral responsibility for distributed moral actions.", Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences. 374 (2083) 20160112.
- (2016) "On Human Dignity as a Foundation for the Right to Privacy", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (4) 307-312.
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- (2016) "The Ethics of Algorithms: Mapping the Debate", Big Data & Society. 3 (2) 205395171667967.
- (2016) "Crowdsourced Science: Sociotechnical Epistemology in the e-Research Paradigm", Synthese. 195 (2) 741-764.
- (2016) "Technology and Democracy: Three Lessons from Brexit", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (3) 189-193.
- (2016) "The Design of the Internet's Architecture by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and Human Rights.", Science and engineering ethics. 23 (2) 449-468.
- (2016) "Introduction: The Philosophy of Information", Topoi. 35 (1) 157-159.
- (2016) "Mature Information Societies—a Matter of Expectations", Philosophy & Technology. 29 (1) 1-4.
- (2016) "Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm.", CoRR. abs/1610.09485.
- (2016) "Even Good Bots Fight.", CoRR. abs/1609.04285.
- (2016) "The Debate on the Moral Responsibilities of Online Service Providers.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (6) 1575-1603.
- (2016) "Tolerant Paternalism: Pro-ethical Design as a Resolution of the Dilemma of Toleration.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (6) 1669-1688.
- (2016) "The Ethics of Big Data: Current and Foreseeable Issues in Biomedical Contexts.", Sci. Eng. Ethics. 22 (2) 303-341.
- (2015) "A Proxy Culture", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (4) 487-490.
- (2015) "Toleration and the Design of Norms", Science and Engineering Ethics. 21 (5) 1095-1123.
- (2015) "The New Grey Power", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (3) 329-332.
- (2015) "The anti-counterfeiting trade agreement: the ethical analysis of a failure, and its lessons", Ethics and Information Technology. 17 (2) 165-173.
- (2015) "Free Online Services: Enabling, Disenfranchising, Disempowering", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (2) 163-166.
- (2015) "On malfunctioning software", Synthese. 192 (4) 1199-1220.
- (2015) "The Politics of Uncertainty", Philosophy & Technology. 28 (1) 1-4.
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- (2015) "The logic and philosophy of information corner: Presentation and call for papers.", J. Log. Comput.. 25 (3) 525-526.
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- (2014) "The Latent Nature of Global Information Warfare", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (3) 317-319.
- (2014) "Technological Unemployment, Leisure Occupation, and the Human Project", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (2) 143-150.
- (2014) "Information closure and the sceptical objection", Synthese. 191 (6) 1037-1050.
- (2014) "Open Data, Data Protection, and Group Privacy", Philosophy & Technology. 27 (1) 1-3.
- (2014) "Group privacy", The Philosophers' Magazine. (65) 22-23.
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- (2013) "An analysis of information visualisation", Synthese. 190 (16) 3421-3438.
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- (2013) "Technology’s In-Betweeness", Philosophy & Technology. 26 (2) 111-115.
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- (2013) "Perception and Testimony as Data Providers", Logique et Analyse. 71-95.
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- (2012) "Big Data and Their Epistemological Challenge", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (4) 435-437.
- (2012) "Technologies of the Self", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (3) 271-273.
- (2012) "Turing's three philosophical lessons and the philosophy of information", Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences. 370 (1971) 3536-3542.
- (2012) "Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (2) 129-131.
- (2012) "Degenerate Epistemology", Philosophy & Technology. 25 (1) 1-3.
- (2012) "The Philosophy of Information - By Luciano Floridi", Theoria. 78 (1) 80-83.
- (2012) "Semantic information and the network theory of account.", Synth.. 184 (3) 431-454.
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- (2011) "The New Ethical Responsibilities of Internet Service Providers", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (4) 369-370.
- (2011) "Children of the Fourth Revolution", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (3) 227-232.
- (2011) "Energy, Risks, and Metatechnology", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (2) 89-94.
- (2011) "A DEFENCE OF CONSTRUCTIONISM: PHILOSOPHY AS CONCEPTUAL ENGINEERING", Metaphilosophy. 42 (3) 282-304.
- (2011) "Harmonising Physis and Techne: The Mediating Role of Philosophy", Philosophy & Technology. 24 (1) 1-3.
- (2011) "Semantic Information and the Correctness Theory of Truth", Erkenntnis. 74 (2) 147-175.
- (2011) "The case for e-trust", Ethics and Information Technology. 13 (1) 1-3.
- (2011) "The Construction of Personal Identities Online.", Minds Mach.. 21 (4) 477-479.
- (2011) "The Informational Nature of Personal Identity.", Minds Mach.. 21 (4) 549-566.
- (2010) "Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação (BCI) como filosofia da informação aplicada: uma reavaliação", InCID: Revista de Ciência da Informação e Documentação. 1 (2) 37.
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- (2010) "Information, possible worlds and the cooptation of scepticism", Synthese. 175 (S1) 63-88.
- (2010) "The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework", Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 23 (1-2) 253-281.
- (2010) "THE PHILOSOPHY OF INFORMATION: TEN YEARS LATER", Metaphilosophy. 41 (3) 402-419.
- (2010) Information.
- (2010) "The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework", Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 1-31.
- (2010) "The Philosophy of Information as a Conceptual Framework", Knowledge, Technology & Policy. 1-29.
- (2010) "Introduction to the special issue on the nature and scope of information.", Synth.. 175 (S1) 1-3.
- (2010) "Levels of abstraction and the Turing test.", Kybernetes. 39 (3) 423-440.
- (2009) "Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society", Journal of Business Ethics. 90 (4) 649-659.
- (2009) "Network Ethics: Information and Business Ethics in a Networked Society", Journal of Business Ethics. 90 (S4) 649-659.
- (2009) "The ethics of information transparency", Ethics and Information Technology. 11 (2) 105-112.
- (2009) "Web 2.0 vs. the Semantic Web: A Philosophical Assessment", Episteme. 6 (1) 25-37.
- (2009) "Introduction.", Synth.. 167 (2) 203-205.
- (2009) "The Information Society and Its Philosophy: Introduction to the Special Issue on "The Philosophy of Information, Its Nature, and Future Developments".", Inf. Soc.. 25 (3) 153-158.
- (2009) "Logical fallacies as informational shortcuts.", Synth.. 167 (2) 317-325.
- (2009) "Against digital ontology.", Synth.. 168 (1) 151-178.
- (2009) "Turing's Imitation Game: Still an Impossible Challenge for All Machines and Some Judges-An Evaluation of the 2008 Loebner Contest.", Minds Mach.. 19 (1) 145-150.
- (2008) "ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE'S NEW FRONTIER: ARTIFICIAL COMPANIONS AND THE FOURTH REVOLUTION", Metaphilosophy. 39 (4-5) 651-655.
- (2008) "The Method of Levels of Abstraction", Minds and Machines, September 2008. 18 (3) 303-329.
- (2008) "Information ethics: a reappraisal", Ethics and Information Technology. 10 (2-3) 189-204.
- (2008) "Understanding Epistemic Relevance", Erkenntnis. 69 (1) 69-92.
- (2008) "The ethics of information transparency", TRANSPARENCY, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATION. 87-+.
- (2008) "A defence of informational structural realism.", Synth.. 161 (2) 219-253.
- (2007) "Global Information Ethics: The Importance of Being Environmentally Earnest", International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI). 3 (3) 1-11.
- (2007) "A Praxical Solution of the Symbol Grounding Problem.", Minds Mach.. 17 (4) 369-389.
- (2007) "A look into the future impact of ICT on our lives", http://www.thephilosophyofinformation.net/blog/. 23 (1) 59-64.
- (2006) "Information technologies and the tragedy of the Good Will", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (4) 253-262.
- (2006) "Information ethics: Agents, artefacts and new cultural perspectives", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (4) 155-156.
- (2006) "The logic of being informed", Logique et Analyse. 49 (196) 433-460.
- (2006) "Four challenges for a theory of informational privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 8 (3) 109-119.
- (2006) "Ética de la información: su naturaleza y alcance", Isegoría. 0 (34) 19-46.
- (2006) "Luciano Floridi takes over our regular look at the web", The Philosophers' Magazine. (33) 17.
- (2006) "Informational privacy and its ontological interpretation.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (3) 37-40.
- (2006) "Information ethics, its nature and scope.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (3) 21-36.
- (2006) "Informational privacy and its ontological interpretation.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 36 (1) 1.
- (2005) "The Ontological Interpretation of Informational Privacy", Ethics and Information Technology. 7 (4) 185-200.
- (2005) "For a philosophy of information", Epistemologia. 28 (2) 283-292.
- (2005) "Editorial Introduction – Ethics of New Information Technology", Ethics and Information Technology. 7 (3) 109.
- (2005) "The Philosophy of Information and its Problems", Iride. 18 (45) 291-312.
- (2005) "Is Semantic Information Meaningful Data?", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 70 (2) 351-370.
- (2005) "Information ethics, its nature and scope.", SIGCAS Comput. Soc.. 35 (2) 3.
- (2005) "The Philosophy of Presence: From Epistemic Failure to Successful Observation.", Presence Teleoperators Virtual Environ.. 14 (6) 656-667.
- (2005) "Solving the symbol grounding problem: a critical review of fifteen years of research.", J. Exp. Theor. Artif. Intell.. 17 (4) 419-445.
- (2005) "Consciousness, Agents and the Knowledge Game.", Minds Mach.. 15 (3-4) 415-444.
- (2005) "How to Do Philosophy Informationally.", Wissensmanagement (LNCS Volume) Althoff, K.-.D., Dengel, A., Bergmann, R., Nick, M. and Roth-Berghofer, T. (eds.)Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 3782 623-634.
- (2004) "Afterword LIS as applied philosophy of information: A reappraisal", Library Trends. 52 (3) 658-665.
- (2004) "Open Problems in the Philosophy of Information", Metaphilosophy. 35 (4) 554-582.
- (2004) "LIS as Applied Philosophy of Information: A Reappraisal.", Libr. Trends. 52 658-665.
- (2004) "The tragedy of the digital commons", Ethics and Information Technology. 6 (2) 73-81.
- (2004) "On the Logical Unsolvability of the Gettier Problem.", Synth.. 142 (1) 61-79.
- (2004) "On the Morality of Artificial Agents.", Minds Mach.. 14 (3) 349-379.
- (2004) "Outline of a Theory of Strongly Semantic Information.", Minds Mach.. 14 (2) 197-221.
- (2003) The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information.
- (2003) "From Data to Semantic Information.", Entropy. 5 (2) 125-145.
- (2003) "Two Approaches to the Philosophy of Information.", Minds Mach.. 13 (4) 459-469.
- (2002) "Information Ethics", Philosophy in the Contemporary World. 9 (1) 39-45.
- (2002) "On defining library and information science as applied philosophy of information", Social Epistemology. 16 (1) 37-49.
- (2002) "Mapping the foundationalist debate in computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 4 (1) 1-9.
- (2002) "On the intrinsic value of information objects and the infosphere", Ethics and Information Technology. 4 (4) 287-304.
- (2002) "What is the Philosophy of Information?", Metaphilosophy. 33 (1‐2) 123-145.
- (2001) "Ancient Scepticism and the Sceptical Tradition (review)", Journal of the History of Philosophy. 39 (4) 583-584.
- (2001) "Artificial evil and the foundation of computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 3 (1) 55-66.
- (2000) "Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology: A Study in the Metalogical Fallacies", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 61 (3) 711.
- (2000) "Mathematical skepticism: The cartesian approach", PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTIETH WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY, VOL 6. 217-265.
- (1999) "Information ethics: On the philosophical foundation of computer ethics", Ethics and Information Technology. 1 (1) 37-56.
- (1998) "Logic and visual thinking", Iride. 11 (24) 343-358.
- (1997) "Pyrrhonian reflections on knowledge and justification - Fogelin,RJ", PHILOSOPHICAL QUARTERLY. 47 (188) 406-408.
- (1997) "Anschriften der Mitarbeiter des ersten Heftes", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 79 (1) 116.
- (1997) "Scepticism and Animal Rationality: the Fortune of Chrysippus’ Dog in the History of Western Thought", Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie. 79 (1) 27-57.
- (1996) "Followers of French Fashions: Neo-Cartesianism and Analytic Epistemology", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 56 (3) 633.
- (1996) Scepticism and the Foundation of Epistemology.
- (1996) "Internet : Frankenstein ou Pygmalion", Horizons philosophiques. 6 (2) 1.
- (1996) "The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 2", The Electronic Library. 14 (1) 49-52.
- (1996) "The Internet: Which future for organised knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion? Part 1", The Electronic Library. 14 (1) 43-48.
- (1996) "Internet: Which Future for Organized Knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?", Inf. Soc.. 12 (1) 5-16.
- (1995) "Cupiditas veri videndi:Pierre de Villemandy's dogmatic vs. Cicero's sceptical interpretation of ‘man's desire to know", British Journal for the History of Philosophy. 3 (1) 29-56.
- (1995) "The Diffusion of Sextus Empiricus's Works in the Renaissance", Journal of the History of Ideas. 56 (1) 63.
- (1995) "Internet: which future for organized knowledge, Frankenstein or Pygmalion?", Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud.. 43 (2) 261-274.
- (1995) "Storia e multimedia. Atti del Settimo Congresso Internazionale/ Proceedings of the Seventh International Congress Association for History & Computing, Bologna 1992, a cura di/edited by Francesca Bocchi & Peter Denley. Bologna: Grafis Edizioni, 1994. pp. xix + 861. ISBN 88-8081-000-6 (pb), Lit. 70.000 (£28.00).", Hist. Comput.. 7 (2) 110-114.
- (1994) "The problem of the justification of a theory of knowledge", Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 25 (1) 17-49.
- (1994) "SKEPTICISM AND THE SEARCH FOR KNOWLEDGE, A PEIRCEISH ANSWER TO A KANTIAN DOUBT", TRANSACTIONS OF THE CHARLES S PEIRCE SOCIETY. 30 (3) 543-573.
- (1993) "The problem of the justification of a theory of knowledge", Journal for General Philosophy of Science. 24 (2) 205-233.
- Public Health in the Information Age: Recognizing the Infosphere as a Social Determinant of Health (Preprint).
- Professor Floridi has collaborated closely on data ethics (including the ethics of algorithms and AI) with the European Commission, the German Ethics Council, and, in the UK, with the House of Lords, the House of Commons, the Cabinet Office, the Information Commissioner’s Office, several Ministries, the Digital Catapult, as well as with multinational corporations (e.g. Capgemini, Cisco, DeepMind, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Tencent).
- He currently chairs several initiatives, including Facebook’s Working Group on Digital Ethics, and the Ethics Advisory Board of the European Medical Information Framework (a €56 million EU project on medical informatics). In the past, he co-chaired the Ethics in Data Science Working Group of the UK’s Cabinet Office.
- He is also one of six members of the Ethics Advisory Group for the European Data Protection Supervisor. This Group aims to develop a new framework of digital ethics which can protect the freedom of individuals from the risks of unlimited processing of personal data.
- He co-authored the UNESCO Code of Ethics for the Information Society (UNESCO Information for All Programme 2009), with a view of developing a UNESCO Declaration to be submitted to the General Conference.
- He was a member of the Google Advisory Council which tried to balance the right to be forgotten with the public’s right to information.
Teaching
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The Philosophy and Ethics of Information
This course introduces some key concepts and phenomena related to information, and seeks to answer some crucial theoretical questions of great philosophical significance prompted by the development of the information society.
Videos
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COVID-19 apps and their ethical considerations
Recorded: 27 May 2020
Duration: 57:34:10
Professor Luciano Floridi examines the ethics of newly created COVID-19 tracking apps. Moderated by Jess Morley.
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AI in Society – Opportunities and Risks
Recorded: 11 June 2019
Duration: 46:21:00
The Oxford Internet Institute presents Professor Luciano Floridi, for the lecture "A.I. in society – opportunities and risks" in London.
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Turing Lecture: Ethics in the Age of Information
Recorded: 30 March 2016
Duration: 01:14:46
Professor Luciano Floridi outlines the nature and scope of Information Ethics, the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of ICTs on human life and society.
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The New Grey Power
Recorded: 9 October 2015
Duration: 00:22:35
A workshop that gathered leading experts from different fields to discuss the responsibilities of Online Service Providers (OSP) in information societies.
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Luciano Floridi explains privacy in the information age
Recorded: 7 October 2015
Duration: 00:03:59
Luciano Floridi speaks to Lateline about the legalities, practicalities and complexities of privacy in the information age.
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The Philosophy and Ethics of Information: OII MSc Option Course
Recorded: 24 September 2015
Duration: 00:02:13
This option course for the OII MSc in "Social Science of the Internet" examines the philosophy and ethics of Information, its problems, approaches, and methods.
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Cyberpolitics: Politics in the Third Information Revolution
Recorded: 23 June 2015
Duration: 01:05:35
Luciano Floridi's talk at the Ateneo in Madrid.
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Keynote Lecture on Philosophy of Information
Recorded: 9 June 2015
Duration: 00:35:27
Luciano Floridi keynotes at the Sogeti Summit, Amsterdam, 9 June 2015.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Part 1: Introduction
Recorded: 27 April 2015
Duration: 00:05:37
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
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Ethics of Biomedical Big Data. Part 2: Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 27 April 2015
Duration: 00:21:51
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
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Political InfoSphere and Reality: A Talk between Luciano Floridi and Javier de la Cueva
Recorded: 14 April 2015
Duration: 01:21:51
Talk between Philosopher Luciano Floridi and Lawer Javier de la Cueva on the occasion of the release of Floridi's last book The 4th Revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality.
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Memory in the Information Age
Recorded: 10 March 2015
Duration: 00:54:59
Luciano Floridi discusses "Recording, Recalling, Retrieving, Remembering: Memory in the Information Age". Presentation given at Santa Clara University.
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On Personal Data, Forgiveness, and the Right to Be Forgotten
Recorded: 10 March 2015
Duration: 00:07:51
Luciano Floridi discusses personal data, forgiveness, and the right to be forgotten. Presentation given at Santa Clara University.
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Luciano Floridi on “The Value of Uncertainty” [Seminar]
Recorded: 10 March 2015
Duration: 00:55:08
Professor Floridi gives a seminar on "The Value of Uncertainty" at the UCD College of Business, Centre of Innovation Technology Organisation (CITO).
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Luciano Floridi on “The Value of Uncertainty” [Q&A]
Recorded: 10 March 2015
Duration: 00:44:14
Professor Floridi gives a seminar on "The Value of Uncertainty" at the UCD College of Business, Centre of Innovation Technology Organisation (CITO).
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The Fourth Information Revolution and its Ethical and Policy Implications
Recorded: 15 February 2015
Duration: 01:04:18
Luciano Floridi examines the revolution in information that has taken place since the middle of the 20th Century and its implications for a world that is becoming more digital and more data-orientated.
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On RTBF Uncertainty and God: Interview with Matt Cooper
Recorded: 12 February 2015
Duration: 00:59:00
Luciano Floridi discusses "The Right to be Forgotten" with Matt Cooper on The Last Word [min 49:04-58:50].
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National Government’s Data as a Public Resource
Recorded: 28 November 2014
Duration: 01:11:24
Information in the public domain is about freedom of access and use. It is also a precondition for a well-functioning political life -- but how this occurs is unclear.
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Luciano Floridi Keynote: Fourth Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics
Recorded: 24 November 2014
Duration: 01:01:18
Luciano Floridi discusses ethics and the Fourth Revolution at the Fourth Annual International Symposium on Digital Ethics, hosted by The Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago.
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Floridi Keynote: The Future of Europe is Science
Recorded: 6 October 2014
Duration: 00:22:20
Luciano Floridi keynotes at the European Commission's conference "The Future of Europe is Science" (Lisbon, 6-7 October 2014).
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EU and Google Want Resolution on Privacy: Floridi
Recorded: 25 September 2014
Duration: 00:04:37
Luciano Floridi, professor at Oxford Internet Institute, discusses the politics behind Googles right of information versus privacy issues. He speaks with Guy Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "The Pulse."
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Rewriting History: Is the new era in data protection compatible with journalism?
Recorded: 14 July 2014
Duration: 01:16:03
ITN and the Media Society host a debate exploring the shifting data protection regime and examine the repercussions for journalism, online news archives and a true account of history.
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Who is responsible for controlling the effects of technology?
Recorded: 23 June 2014
Duration: 00:02:55
Luciano Floridi, author of The Fourth Revolution, highlights the important opportunity we have to influence how technology will move forward.
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Is technology changing who we are?
Recorded: 23 June 2014
Duration: 00:04:05
Luciano Floridi, author of The Fourth Revolution, discusses the ways in which digital technologies are having a profound effect on our daily lives.
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What is the ‘Fourth Revolution’?
Recorded: 23 June 2014
Duration: 00:01:44
Luciano Floridi, author of The Fourth Revolution, explains how our role in modern society is profoundly affected by technology.
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Coordination, Semantics, and Autonomy
Recorded: 28 May 2014
Duration: 01:07:27
Luciano Floridi's keynote lecture from the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete 2014.
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Data Protection and Security on the Web
Recorded: 28 May 2014
Duration: 00:05:07
Luciano Floridi speaks on the panel on Data Protection and Security on the Web, at the 11th Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC), Crete 2014.
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ICT, the Future of Jobs, and the Human Project
Recorded: 14 May 2014
Duration: 01:01:53
Keynote by Luciano Floridi at the GIDE-day, Ministry of Transport and Communications, Communications Policy Department, Finland (Helsinki, 14 May 2014).
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Digital Human: Quantize
Recorded: 28 April 2014
Duration: 00:30:00
Luciano Floridi contributes to a programme on BBC Radio 4 that asks how human beings can cope with a world saturated by data.
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Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues: Discussion and Feedback
Recorded: 16 April 2014
Duration: 00:34:35
Luciano Floridi leads a BJET-Wiley Seminar on "Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues".
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ECFI 2014: Luciano Floridi: R&D, Marketing, and Growth: An Ecosystem Perspective
Recorded: 3 April 2014
Duration: 00:09:35
Luciano Floridi speaks at ECFI 2014, the 1st European Conference on the Future Internet.
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BBC News: Web 25th Anniversary
Recorded: 12 March 2014
Duration: 00:08:34
Luciano Floridi discusses Tim Berners-Lee's call for an online 'Magna Carta' - a bill of rights for the Web.
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Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues
Recorded: 1 March 2014
Duration: 01:39:41
Luciano Floridi leads a BJET-Wiley Seminar on "Big Data, Small Patterns, and Huge Ethical Issues".
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Intervento di Luciano Floridi a #IoEforumita
Recorded: 31 January 2014
Duration: 00:35:58
Luciano Floridi talks at the Internet of Everything Italian Forum (Milan, 31 January 2014).
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Barbara Carfagna: Nato e cyberwar
Recorded: 24 January 2014
Duration: 00:08:36
Luciano Floridi contributes to a programme on Raiuno about NATO, cyberwar, and ethics.
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Luciano Floridi at CEPE 2013: Weizenbaum Award
Recorded: 8 January 2014
Duration: 00:02:12
Luciano Floridi discusses the philosophy of justice and tolerance, interviewed after receiving the Weizenbaum Award at the 2013 CEPE (Computer Ethics: Philosophical Enquiry) conference.
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Enveloping the World How Reality Is Becoming AI Friendly – Luciano Floridi keynote at PT-AI 2013
Recorded: 18 December 2013
Duration: 00:51:47
ICTs have become environmental forces, which are creating and shaping (that is, re-ontologising) our reality, more and more pervasively: they are 'enveloping' our world.
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Da Alan Turing a Luciano Floridi: la quarta rivoluzione della storia dell’uomo
Recorded: 14 December 2013
Duration: 00:05:17
Information technology is radically changing not only how we deal with the world and make sense of it, or interact with each other, but also how we look at ourselves and understand our own existence and responsibilities (in Italian).
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The Gardener, the Dentist, and the Long-Jumper: Ethics in the Age of Information
Recorded: 26 November 2013
Duration: 00:32:36
Luciano Floridi outlines the nature and scope of Information Ethics, the new philosophical area of research that investigates the ethical impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on human life and society.
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Computer Ethics: aspetti sociali ed etici della rivoluzione digitale
Recorded: 22 November 2013
Duration: 01:15:03
Luciano Floridi contributes to a panel discussion of the social and ethical aspects of the information revolution.
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The Ethics of Cyber-conflicts in Hyperhistorical Societies
Recorded: 21 November 2013
Duration: 00:40:33
Luciano Floridi discusses the ethics of cyber-conflicts in hyperhistorical societies (Workshop on Ethics of Cyber Conflict, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Centre for High Defence Studies, Rome, Italy).
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La via della Leadership – Interview
Recorded: 15 November 2013
Duration: 00:06:17
Luciano Floridi discusses a new mode of leadership that fosters a collective intelligence through horizontal networks.
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Everywhere and Nowhere: Are Binary Oppositions Real?
Recorded: 12 November 2013
Duration: 00:35:35
Director of the Institute of Philosophy (University of London) Barry C Smith, LSE sociologist Hilary Rose, philosopher Luciano Floridi and post postmodernist thinker Hilary Lawson investigate new ways of thinking (The Institute of Art and Ideas).
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The Online Initiative: Rethinking Public Spaces in the Digital Transition
Recorded: 8 November 2013
Duration: 00:26:00
Luciano Floridi presents 'The Onlife Initiative', a project he chaired fro the European Commission on how ICTs are modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world around us.
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Impact of the Internet of Things on Business
Recorded: 18 October 2013
Duration: 00:02:52
Luciano Floridi discusses the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) on business.
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How Intelligent is Artificial Intelligence?
Recorded: 27 September 2013
Duration: 00:06:08
How far have we come with Artificial Intelligence? Are there intelligent machines, or have we changed the world to allow dumb machines to behave intelligently?
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Luciano Floridi – “Synthetic Non-Accruable Information”
Recorded: 9 July 2013
Duration: 00:44:35
Lecture delivered at the Info-metrics April 2013 Workshop on Philosophy of Information (convened by the American University's College of Art and Science).
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Hyper History and Cyber War
Recorded: 28 June 2013
Duration: 00:05:51
We rely on computers day-to-day, for most of us they are no longer just a luxury. What does it mean from a philosophical view-point; to live in the age of Hyper History?
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OnLife Manifesto Webinar
Recorded: 3 May 2013
Duration: 00:24:44
The deployment of ICTs and their uptake by society affects radically the human condition, by modifying our relationships to ourselves, to others, and to the world. Luciano Floridi presents his vision of the future, focusing on "Infraethics".
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Innovation Forum 2013 – The philosophy of information and information ethics – Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 26 March 2013
Duration: 00:15:35
The Foundation of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology convenes the first edition of the annual Innovation Forum under the timely theme: "Data-Driven Innovation: The New Imperative for Growth".
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Luciano Floridi parla a Barbara Carfagna dell’intelligenza collettiva e stampanti 3d
Recorded: 11 January 2013
Duration: 00:05:45
Interview with Luciano Floridi about collective intelligence and 3d printers (in Italian).
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The Fantasy of Technology: Can Technology Drive Human Progress?
Recorded: 22 November 2012
Duration: 00:32:25
Cybernetics expert Kevin Warwick, cultural theorist Eva Aldea, science journalist Angela Saini, and philosopher of information Luciano Floridi discuss technological innovation.
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SuchThatCast: Behind the Philosophy. Episode 1: Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 15 July 2012
Duration: 01:03:17
Luciano Floridi discusses the state of computer and information ethics as a field, and how philosophy and academia needs to change radically in order to stay relevant and timely.
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Big Data and Their Problem
Recorded: 26 June 2012
Duration: 00:27:26
Luciano Floridi discusses how the digital revolution has brought information technologies and people closer and how this affects the future (VINT Symposium 2012: Recorded Future).
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The Rs of War
Recorded: 9 June 2012
Duration: 00:04:03
Luciano Floridi discusses the implications of cyberwar and computer-assisted warfare in terms of risks, rights, responsibilities and results.
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La Guerra Mondiale Informatica
Recorded: 3 May 2012
Duration: 00:07:48
Interview with Luciano Floridi about the "Fourth Revolution" and its implications in the field of security, from cyberwar to a redefinition of the concept of security (in Italian).
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The Information Revolution with philosopher Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 8 January 2012
Duration: 00:23:30
Luciano Floridi argues that we are entering a "Fourth Revolution." Just as the Copernican, Darwinian, and Freudian revolutions changed how we see ourselves, this revolution ushers in a view of ourselves as 'nodes on a network' - not isolated individuals.
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HONR399 Class 28: Special Guest Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 1 November 2011
Duration: 00:48:50
Luciano Floridi is a guest lecturer for the Center for Science of Information's "Introduction to Science of Information".
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Keynote Lecture, International Symposium on Digital Ethics
Recorded: 28 October 2011
Duration: 01:02:12
Luciano Floridi speaks at the International Symposium on Digital Ethics, Center for Digital Ethics and Policy, Loyola University (Chicago, 28 October 2011).
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TEDxMaastricht – Luciano Floridi – “The fourth technological revolution”
Recorded: 6 April 2011
Duration: 00:08:50
Information technology is radically changing not only how we deal with the world and make sense of it, or interact with each other, but also how we look at ourselves and understand our own existence and responsibilities.
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Luciano Floridi: The philosophy of information
Recorded: 1 February 2011
Duration: 00:39:10
Luciano Floridi discusses the philosophy of information (album of video interviews).
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Grasping Semantic Information: Seminar on ICTs in the Contemporary World
Recorded: 2 November 2010
Duration: 01:35:41
Luciano Floridi discusses semantic information at the London School of Economics (2 November 2010).
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World Science Festival, NY, 2010, Technological Determinism
Recorded: 1 September 2010
Duration: 00:03:59
Are we unknowingly eroding our "real-world" relationships of genuine meaning by maintaining them on Facebook? Philosopher Luciano Floridi explains why blaming technology for intellectual and social laziness is misguided.
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Creating Consciousness
Recorded: 1 September 2010
Duration: 00:04:00
Can consciousness be created? Is there a range of types of consciousness? In reaction to a thought experiment proposed by John Hockenberry, philosopher Luciano Floridi and John Donoghue wrestle with the idea of "an internet residing in our brains."
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Luciano Floridi for Rita 101tv
Recorded: 27 April 2010
Duration: 00:02:38
Luciano Floridi discusses the Nobel Laureate Rita Montalcini.
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Professorial Lecture – The Fourth Revolution: The Impact of Information Technology on Our Lives
Recorded: 23 March 2010
Duration: 01:05:35
Luciano Floridi discusses the impact of IT on our lives and self-understanding, outlining how IT is bringing about a fourth revolution, in the long process of reassessment of our fundamental nature and role in the universe (Univ. Hertfordshire).
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The Digital Revolution as a Fourth Revolution
Recorded: 19 November 2009
Duration: 00:05:39
Luciano Floridi discusses the digital revolution as a "Fourth Revolution" (conference, Centre de Recherches Interdisciplinarires (CRI), Paris).
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Luciano Floridi on the Fourth Revolution
Recorded: 28 June 2009
Duration: 00:13:16
New technology is changing our relationship to reality and in the process what we are, argues Luciano Floridi, in this episode of the philosophy podcast Philosophy Bites. This is the fourth revolution.
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What is Life? – Luciano Floridi
Recorded: 18 March 2008
Duration: 01:02:46
What is Life? The Next 100 Years of Yukawa's Dream (Nishinomiya-Yukawa International and Interdisciplinary Symposium 2007).
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ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture 2007
Recorded: 1 January 2007
Duration: 00:30:41
Luciano Floridi gives the 2007 ISI Samuel Lazerow Memorial Lecture at the University of Arizona's School of Information Resources and Library Science.
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A Look into the Future of ICT [mirror] [file download]
Recorded: 10 August 2006
Duration: 01:00:00
Luciano Floridi speaks at the North American Computing and Philosophy Conference, August 10-12 2006, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US.
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The Logics of Information (Discussion)
Recorded: 11 May 2005
Duration: 00:58:22
Luciano Floridi presents on the logics of information, at the Télé-université, University of Quebec, 11 May 2005.
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The Logics of Information (Presentation)
Recorded: 11 May 2005
Duration: 01:21:19
Luciano Floridi presents on the logics of information, at the Télé-université, University of Quebec, 11 May 2005.
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Floridi to join Ethics Advisory Board for NHSx COVID-19 app
27 April 2020
Professor Luciano Floridi has been appointed to the NHSx Ethics Advisory Board to provide independent advice and recommendations for a contact tracing app to control the spread and minimise the effects of COVID-19.
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Action needed now to increase public trust in use of AI in NHS, say Oxford academics
29 November 2019
Leading experts in AI and ethics from Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford, are urging healthcare professionals in private and public service to come together to boost public trust in AI-based healthcare.
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New approach needed for defining AI standards in cybersecurity, say Oxford academics
11 November 2019
Leading experts in cybersecurity and ethic present the case for an alternative approach to AI standards and certification in cybersecurity.
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Oxford Internet Institute expert to play key role in the digital future of the UK
21 November 2018
Oxford expert to play key role in the digital future of the UK
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Governing artificial intelligence: ethical, legal, and technical opportunities and challenges
16 October 2018
This issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, edited by OII members, presents an analysis of the challenges and opportunities posed in developing accountable, fair and transparent governance for Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems.
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Digital remains should be treated like physical ones
20 April 2018
Our internet activity - commonly referred to as digital remains, should be treated with the same care and respect as physical remains, according to Oxford University research.
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Prof. Floridi to collaborate with Facebook on enhancing ethical uses of data
3 October 2017
Professor Floridi is working with Facebook to chair and convene a group of international experts in a series of cross-disciplinary discussions around the opportunities for enhancing ethical uses of data.
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Oxford Internet Institute Launches Digital Ethics Lab: Tackles Ethical Challenges Posed by Digital Innovation
17 May 2017
The Oxford Internet Institute has today launched the Digital Ethics Lab (“DELab”), which aims to tackle the ethical challenges posed by digital innovation.
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Computer bots are more like humans than you might think, having fights lasting years
24 February 2017
Researchers say ‘benevolent bots’, otherwise known as software robots, that are designed to improve articles on Wikipedia sometimes have online ‘fights’ over content that can continue for years.
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Luciano Floridi to Chair Alan Turing Institute Data Ethics Group
17 January 2017
The Alan Turing Institute has today announced the membership of The Alan Turing Institute’s Data Ethics Group. It will be chaired by Luciano Floridi, the OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information.
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What is data ethics?
14 November 2016
A paper published today in Philosophical Transactions A by Luciano Floridi and Mariarosaria Taddeo asks ‘what is data ethics?’ and outlines the context behind this emerging branch of research.
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Luciano Floridi Appointed to EU’s New Ethics Advisory Group (EAG) on Ethical Dimensions of Data Protection
28 January 2016
Luciano Floridi, the OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, is one of six members appointed to the EU's New Ethics Advisory Group (EAG).
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Walter J Ong Award for Fellow Professor Luciano Floridi
7 December 2015
The OII is delighted to announce that Professor Luciano Floridi has received the Walter J Ong Award for his exemplary record of scholarship and innovation.
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Luciano Floridi Appointed to Google’s Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten
11 July 2014
Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford and Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, has been appointed as a member of Google’s Advisory Council on the Right to be Forgotten.
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Luciano Floridi Awarded UC3M’s “Cátedras de Excelencia” Prize for His Work on the Philosophy and Ethics of Information
14 March 2014
Luciano Floridi, the OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, and Fellow of St Cross College, has been awarded this year's Cátedras de Excelencia for his work on the philosophy and ethics of information.
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Luciano Floridi joins the Nexa Center for Internet & Society’s Board of Trustees
18 November 2013
The Nexa Center for Internet & Society announces that OII Professor Luciano Floridi has joined their Board of Trustees.
Events
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COVID-19 apps and ethical considerations
27 May 2020
Professor Luciano Floridi examines the ethics of applications created to track the spread of COVID-19.
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Workshop “Understanding the Responsibilities of Online Service Providers in Information Societies”
9 October 2015
This is a one day workshop to discuss online service providers in information societies.
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Workshop: Ethics of Biomedical Big Data
27 April 2015
Workshop bringing together expertise to address emerging challenges in the field, and the requirements for a European framework for ethical usage of biomedical Big Data.
Blog
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Intercultural Digital Ethics at the OII
17 December 2020
Authors: Nikita Aggarwal, Luciano Floridi
Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute and doctoral candidate, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, ...
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Uphold Digital Sovereignty, Avert Digital Autarky
30 September 2020
Authors: Nikita Aggarwal, Luciano Floridi, Matthias Qian
By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, Professor Luciano Floridi, Director, Oxford Internet Institute and Dr Matthias Qian, Departmental Lecturer, ...
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Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy
10 September 2020
Authors: Nikita Aggarwal, Luciano Floridi
Tackling the ethical challenges of the gig economy By Nikita Aggarwal, Research Associate, Digital Ethics Lab, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and doctoral ...
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COVID-19 and the Digital Divides
7 July 2020
Authors: Nikita Aggarwal, Josh Cowls, Luciano Floridi, Jakob Mokander, Jessica Morley, Mariarosaria Taddeo, Andreas Tsamados, Vincent Wang, David Watson
The expression “digital divide” refers to the uneven availability, accessibility, use and possession of digital technologies, services, products, or skills within a population. It ...
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Ethical Guidelines for SARS-CoV-2 Digital Tracking and Tracing Systems
23 April 2020
Authors: Mark Malbas, Luciano Floridi
Researchers from the Digital Ethics Lab at OII, led by Professor Luciano Floridi, present a framework to evaluate whether and to what extent the use ...
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An ethically-minded approach to AI for healthcare by Morley and Floridi
24 January 2020
Authors: Luciano Floridi, Jessica Morley
MSc student Jessica Morley and Pofessor Luciano Floridi answers questions about their call for a new approach to ethical standards in Artificial Intelligence (AI), published ...
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Digital technology has the power to transform health care, but is only part of the solution
11 July 2019
Authors: Jessica Morley, Luciano Floridi
As the NHS embraces the use of digital technology, AI expert Professor Luciano Floridi, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, warns of the inherent ...
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Asking “Whodunnit?” in an Age of Artificial Intelligence
25 February 2019
Authors: Luciano Floridi
Traditionally, crime and punishment involved a human perpetrator and victim(s). Establishing the guilt and identity of the perpetrator has never been straightforward, but what ...
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The Year of Floridi
26 June 2018
Author: Genevieve Juillet
The Oxford Internet Institute is proud to recognise Professor Luciano Floridi, Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, for a number of remarkable achievements ...
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The Future of Europe is Science — and ethical foresight should be a priority
20 November 2014
Author: Luciano Floridi
The EC recently took stock of European achievements in science, engineering, technology and innovation (SETI) during the last 10 years, at the high-level conference “The ...
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Press
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Health misinformation pollutes the web, with consequences for all
25 November 2020 The Financial Times
Conspiracy theories about vaccines could affect how smoothly the world recovers from the coronavirus crisis.
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Policymakers must start asking difficult questions on the ethics of AI in healthcare
9 September 2020 Public Technology.net
Government needs to begin working with citizens and industry to address the risks created by the use of new technology, according to Jessica Morley and Luciano Floridi of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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Europe risks ‘handing over keys’ on health data to Apple and Google, says NHSX advisor
30 May 2020 The Telegraph
Several European nations have turned to Apple and Google to help build their contact-tracing apps.
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Ethical guidelines for COVID-19 tracing apps
28 May 2020 Nature
Protect privacy, equality and fairness in digital contact tracing with these key questions.
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Eager to Corral the Coronavirus, U.K. Tests a Disputed Tracing App
7 May 2020 New York Times
The British government’s tool to track infected people puts it at odds with Apple and Google on privacy.
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Why technology can’t solve the Irish border problem
11 February 2019 The New Statesman
Digital borders already exist. But frictionless borders depend on trust, not surveillance.
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Legal Ethics: The Ethical Dilemma of Artificial Intelligence
23 October 2018 National Law Review
While the future of humankind is artificial intelligence, what exactly is the future of artificial intelligence?
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Lay down rules of engagement for cyber war before it is too late
22 October 2018 Financial Times
Computerised assaults are easy to unleash but hard to trace, and befuddle the enemy
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Digital immortality: How your life’s data means a version of you could live forever
18 October 2018 MIT Technology Review
In a paper published in Nature Human Behavior earlier this year, ethicists Carl Öhman and Luciano Floridi from the Oxford Internet Institute argue that we need an ethical framework for the burgeoning digital afterlife industry.
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How AI can be a force for good
24 August 2018 Science
An ethical framework will help to harness the potential of AI while keeping humans in control
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What happens to your digital remains after you die?
23 April 2018 Hindustan Times
Internet activity lives on long after a person dies and firms such as Facebook and experimental start-ups have sought to monetise this content by allowing people to socialise with the dead online.
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The Digital Afterlife is Open for Business. But It Needs Rules.
18 April 2018 Futurism
No one is quite sure how to navigate the little-charted territory of the digital afterlife.
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‘Digital remains’ deserve same treatment as archaeological artifacts, say Oxford academics
18 April 2018 The Telegraph
Our internet activity will live on long after we die, yet these intimate digital details are granted little protection from companies hoping to cash in on the cyber afterlife.
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Deceased Data: Should Your Online Remains Be Treated Like Physical Remains?
18 April 2018 Technology Networks
From live-streaming funerals to online memorial pages and even chat-bots that use people’s social media footprints’ to act as online ghosts, the digital afterlife industry (DAI) has become big business.
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Dawn of the Techlash
12 February 2018 The Guardian
Once seen as saviours of democracy, tech giants are now viewed as threats to truth. But how did our faith in all things digital turn into an erosion of trust, particularly in the arena of information and politics?
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Project 10 Podcast: Prof Floridi Talks Online Public Shaming
16 January 2018 Project 10 Podcast
Director of the Digital Ethics Lab at the University of Oxford, Prof Luciano Floridi shares some insights on the world of online public shaming and considerations to keep in mind when casting judgements.
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Interview with Professor Luciano Floridi
24 August 2017 The FreeThink Tank
Luciano Floridi is Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information at the University of Oxford, where he is also the Director of the Digital Ethics Lab of the Oxford Internet Institute.
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The rise of the algorithm need not be bad news for humans
4 May 2017 The Financial Times
The rise of the algorithm need not be bad news for humans -- but we will need to take care of the digital environment, says Luciano Floridi. The best protection against any algorithmic errors is to put human intelligence back into the equation.
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Live At The Oxford Literary Festival
26 March 2017 BBC World Service
Is human nature fixed - or is it ever changing? John Simpson discusses with geneticist Adam Rutherford, psychoanalyst Coline Covington, and philosopher Luciano Floridi (26:34-52:58).
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Editing bots are more like humans
28 February 2017 The Hindu
Software robots designed to improve articles on Wikipedia sometimes have online ‘fights’ over content that can continue for years, say scientists who warn that artificial intelligence systems may behave more like humans than expected.
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Study reveals bot-on-bot editing wars raging on Wikipedia’s pages
24 February 2017 The Guardian
A new study by Milena Tsvetkova, Ruth García-Gavilanes, Luciano Floridi and Taha Yasseri finds that Wikipedia is a battleground where silent wars between bots have raged for years.
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When bots go bad: how Wikipedia’s helpers ended up locked in conflict
24 February 2017 The Guardian
According to new research from the Oxford Internet Institute, the software robots, or “bots”, which carry out basic housekeeping tasks on Wikipedia articles have “fights” over their pages. The conflicts can go on for years.
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Philosophy, public services and artificial intelligence
23 February 2017 UKAuthority
Professor Luciano Floridi of the Oxford Internet Institute calls for some serious thought about what we really want to do with AI.
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People built AI bots to improve Wikipedia. Then they started squabbling in petty edit wars, sigh
23 February 2017 The Register
An investigation into Wikipedia bots has confirmed the automated editing software can be just as pedantic and petty as humans are – often engaging in online spats that can continue for years.
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Study: Even ‘benevolent bots’ fight, sometimes for years
23 February 2017 UPI
An analysis of bot behavior over the course of a decades shows even "benevolent" bots bicker. In fact, researchers found evidence of bot-versus-bot fights lasting several years.
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Roman law offers a better guide to robot rights than sci-fi
22 February 2017 The Financial Times
As we lay the foundations for the mature information societies of the near future, we need new ethical frameworks to determine which forms of artificial agency we are happy to see flourishing in them, says Luciano Floridi.
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Fake news and a 400-year-old problem: we need to resolve the ‘post-truth’ crisis
29 November 2016 The Guardian
The internet echo chamber satiates our appetite for pleasant lies and reassuring falsehoods and has become the defining challenge of the 21st century
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The Wikipedia bots that are engaged in spats that never end
21 September 2016 New Scientist
Wikipedia editors sometimes use bots to help them keep on top of changes that users have made to the online encyclopedia. But sometimes two editors will task different bots with making incompatible edits.
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Bots are waging passive-aggressive war on Wikipedia
21 September 2016 TechCrunch
Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links and perform other tedious tasks. But even these automated helpers come into conflict, reverting and re-reverting each other on the same topic, sometimes for years.
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Indefatigable WikiBots keep Wikipedia battles going long after humans give up and go home
21 September 2016 The Register
A group of researchers from Oxford University and the Alan Turing Institute in London say once Wikipedia bots get into a disagreement, they spend years reverting each others' edits.
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The Growing Problem of Bots That Fight Online
20 September 2016 MIT Technology Review
The way software agents interact on the Web is poorly understood. Now evidence shows that they fight each other for years.
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Oxford professor calls for European ethical codes on patient data
12 April 2016 The Guardian
Prof Luciano Floridi proposes codes for the reuse of medical data and data donation
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A smiley face – but nothing more
4 April 2016 Gulf News
OII professor Luciano Floridi and survey fellow Grant Blank both comment on the significance of the emoji in communications.
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The data republic
26 March 2016 The Economist
An in-depth article about the effect, benefit and drawbacks of the internet and the use of data in politics quotes Helen Margetts and refers to the work of Luciano Floridi.
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O controlamos a Facebook o nos controlará toda la vida”
18 February 2016 La Vanguardia
Either we control Facebook or it will control our whole life'. In an article published in Spanish newspaper, La Vanguardia Luciano Floridi is interviewed about the potential pitfalls of social media.
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Ethical issues are tripping up tech firms and the backlash can be abysmal
11 February 2016 The Irish Times
Technology needs to engage with a philosophy of today argues Luciano Floridi. In an interview with the Irish Times he talks about why organisations need clear thinking philosophy to help them with strategy and understanding.
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No AI version of Godzilla is about to enslave us’: Oxford professor says intelligent robots could help humanity
26 January 2016 Daily Mail
The Daily Mail reports on the article in the Financial Times written by Luciano Floridi in which he argues that there is very little risk of intelligent machines enslaving humans.
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Humans have nothing to fear from intelligent machines
25 January 2016 Financial Times
Luciano Floridi argues that whilst machines can do some things better than humans do, there is no real of being enslaved by them. Rather, we should look to the actual challenges of artificial intelligence and avoid making costly mistakes.
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Künstliche Intelligenz: Furchtbar schlau – oder furchtbar niedlich
19 January 2016 Spiegel online
Artificial Intelligence; Clever or Cute? Spiegel explores the state of artificial intelligence with a researcher. entrepreneur, inventor and philosopher, Professor Luciano Floridi (German language)
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We need a new definition of reality
11 October 2015 Frankfurter Allgemeine
In an extensive interview published in Frankfurter Allgemeine, Luciano Floridi explores some of the major questions provoked by the rapid growth of information technologies and the implications for mankind.
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Google refuses French order to apply ‘right to be forgotten’ globally
30 July 2015 Reuters
Google have asked French privacy watchdog CNIL to withdraw a request for it to remove search results world wide when users are granted the 'right to be forgotten' Luciano Floridi comments.
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Google risks fines by snubbing ‘right to be forgotten’ order
30 July 2015 Daily Telegraph
Google have asked French privacy watchdog CNIL to withdraw a request for it to remove search results worldwide when users are granted the 'right to be forgotten.' Luciano Floridi comments.
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Google refuses French order to apply “right to be forgotten” globally
29 July 2015 The Economic Times
Google have asked French privacy watchdog CNIL to withdraw a request for it to remove search results world wide when users are granted the 'right to be forgotten.' Luciano Floridi comments.
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What will Jeffrey Sachs say at EFNI 2015?
23 July 2015 wbj
The Polish business news site reports on the line-up of distinguished speakers at the European Forum for New Ideas conference and notes that Luciano Floridi will join Jeffrey Sachs and others.
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Lessons from Luciano Floridi, the Google philosopher
26 May 2015 ABC (Australia)
Luciano Floridi discusses themes from his new book ‘The Fourth Revolution.’ One realisation is that humans might not be the best at thinking. Could machines take over completely? Could we lose our sense of who we are?
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Artificial Intelligence and smart technology on the agenda at Thinking Digital in Gateshead
20 May 2015 The Journal
Luciano Floridi's keynote speech to the Thinking Digital conference held at Sage Gateshead in which he explored the mass fascination with the idea of robots dominating humans.
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Unthinkable: Is uncertainty such a bad thing?
21 April 2015 The Irish Times
Luciano Floridi explains to Joe Humphreys of the Irish Times why we should not eradicate doubt but use it to our advantage.
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Broadband and Mobile Providers Prey Upon the ‘Weak’ and ‘Uncertain’
30 March 2015 Huffington Post Blog
There is no quick 'unsubscribe button to migrate, downgrade or cancel an internet service provider account. If you wish to do any of these you are back to the age of the telephone and Royal Mail says Luciano Floridi.
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Tödlich wie eine Granate
8 February 2015 Der Spiegel
Deadly like a grenade'. Luciano Floridi interviewed about cyberwar. (German language)
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“Lösch-Beirat” von Google uneins über “Recht auf Vergessen”
6 February 2015 Zeit Online
Luciano Floridi is acknowledged as a member of the Google Advisory Council in an article on the 'right to be forgotten'. (German language)
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Should You Have The Right To Be Forgotten On Google? Nationally, Yes. Globally, No.
5 February 2015 The World Post
Luciano Floridi shares his thoughts on the report of the Google Advisory Council on the so-called 'right to be forgotten'
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Google Panel Said to Favor Limiting Forgotten Right to EU
27 January 2015 Bloomberg Business
An article on a soon-to-be pushed 'right to be forgotten' report by the Google panel of experts quotes Luciano Floridi,a member of the panel who said that it would be 'constructive'
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Just two phones to get inside terror operation
19 December 2014 The Times
In an article about on-line propaganda promulgated by Islamic State, Professor Luciano Floridi said that the proliferation of Isis propaganda is part of a “frontline in a new kind of conflict”
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The ‘infosphere’: Where philosophy meets technology
12 November 2014 BBC News Business
Peter Day who recently interviewed Luciano Floridi for BBC Radio 4 reviews and explores the ideas in Professor Floridi's book 'The 4th Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality'
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Right to be forgotten: who may exercise power, over which kind of information?
21 October 2014 The Guardian
Luciano Floridi explains the outcomes of the fifth and sixth public meetings of Google’s advisory council which discussed the outcome of the recent “right to be forgotten ruling” made by the European court of Justice
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The right to be forgotten – the road ahead
8 October 2014 The Guardian
Luciano Floridi is chronicling the meetings of the Google Advisory Board as it considers the ECJ ruling on the 'right to be forgotten' In this article he writes about his thoughts following the Warsaw consultation.
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Drawing the line
4 October 2014 The Economist
An Economist report on the 'right to be forgotten' ruling of the ECJ and its implications for Google quotes Luciano Floridi and notes that he is a member of the Google Advisory Panel.
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Google ethics tour right to be forgotten
29 September 2014 The Guardian
Luciano Floridi discusses the third public consultation of Google's Advisory Council on the 'right to be forgotten' held in Paris
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Google ethics tour: should readers be told a link has been removed?
29 September 2014 The Guardian
Luciano Floridi explores the outcomes of the third of the Google ethics advisory council meetings held in Paris on 25 September
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EU and Google Want Resolution on Privacy
25 September 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek
Luciano Floridi, a member of Google's Advisory Panel, curently on tour in Europe, comments on the politics behind the dilemma of the right to free speech versus the right to privacy.
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Google’s privacy ethics tour of Europe: a complex balancing act
16 September 2014 The Guardian
Luciano Floridi writes about the deliberations of Google's 'right to be forgotten' Advisory Board in Madrid and Rome as part of its European consultative tour.
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Discussing Online ‘Right to Be Forgotten,’ Google Takes European Privacy Tour to Spain
9 September 2014 New York Times
The Google Advisory Board on the 'right to be forgotten' is on the road, visiting seven European capitals. Luciano Floridi is quoted in a report of the first meeting in Madrid
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Google Right-to-Be-Forgotten Roadshow Rebuffs Questions
9 September 2014 Bloomberg Buinessweek
As the Google advisory panel on the 'right to be forgotten’ begins a seven-city roadshow, critics suggest it is an attempt by Google to manage the debate. Luciano Floridi says whatever the company did would have been considered to be PR.
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Thanks for the Memory
7 September 2014 BBC Radio 4
In an exploration of the effects of technology on memory, BBC Radio 4's In Business presenter Peter Day interviews Luciano Floridi throughout the programme.
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Uncertainty: technology’s secret weapon in encouraging us to explore
1 September 2014 Guardian Technology
The OII's Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information explains why a degree of healthy uncertainty is to be welcomed, in an in-depth article in Guardian Technology.
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Google’s most popular questions
28 July 2014 The Telegraph
Professor Luciano Floridi is extensively quoted in an article about what our Google searches say about us. He says that future generations will be able to trace our interests as a society just by looking at what we are looking for.
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A manifesto for the future of the ‘right to be forgotten’ debate
22 July 2014 The Guardian
Julia Powles of the University of Cambridge and Luciano Floridi set out strategies for reframing the ethics of our online lives in the light of the ECJ ruling requiring Google to remove some links, in some circumstances, if asked to do so.
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Google council to advise on Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’
11 July 2014 Financial Times
The Tech hub of the FT reports on the announcement by Google of the membership of its 'council of experts' which includes Professor Luciano Floridi.
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Google U-turn over deleted newspaper links
3 July 2014 Financial Times
Google has been put in the position of gatekeeper following the European Court of Justice removing links, says Luciano Floridi. 'I don't think anyone finds this satisfactory' he comments in a piece about deleted links to newspaper articles.
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Google to take action on requests for removal of users’ personal information in Europe
27 June 2014 ETCIO.com
An article on Google's removal of links as part of the 'right to be forgotten' ruling of the European Court of Justice notes that Professor Luciano Floridi is a member of its advisory panel
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Google starts “forgetting” things in Europe
27 June 2014 Channel NewsAsia
Luciano Floridi's membership of the panel advising Google on the balance between 'right to be forgotten' and freedom of information is noted.
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Google follows court order, starts ‘forgetting’ in Europe
26 June 2014 The Hindustan Times
Professor Luciano Floridi's membership of the Google panel advising on the balance between 'right to forget' and freedom of information is noted.
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Google starts to forget: first ‘irrelevant’ links removed in compliance with EU ruling
26 June 2014 The Independent
Luciano Floridi's comment that the European Court of Justice ruling requiring Google to take down some links means the 'old rules of the internet no longer apply' is quoted in an article about the first removals by Google.
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Google ethics adviser: The law needs bold ideas to address the digital age
4 June 2014 The Guardian
In a Guardian op-ed Luciano Floridi, advisor to Google on ethics of information writes about the tensions between privacy and freedom of speech and sets out some ground rules for a more nuanced debate.
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Google Gets a Philosopher to Decide Who Gets “Forgotten”
3 June 2014 Huffington Post Business Canada
The recruitment by Google of a philosopher Luciano Floridi to serve on its Advisory Committee on the 'Right to Forget' is applauded in the Business blog on Huffington Post.
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Google opens path in Europe for being ‘forgotten’
30 May 2014 EU Business News
EU Business reports that Luciano Floridi, OII Professor of Ethics of Communications has joined Google Founder Eric Schmidt and Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia on an advisory committee created by Google to advise on the ‘right to be forgotten’.
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Thinking the Grey Areas
11 February 2014 Institute of Arts and Ideas
The Institute of Arts and Ideas, a not-for-profit organisation, interviewed Luciano Floridi, OII Professor of Philosophy and Ethics of Information, about notions of opposition.
Integrity Statement
In the past five years my research has been financially supported by The Alan Turing Institute; Atomium – European Institute for Science, Media and Democracy; EPSRC – Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council; European Commission, Horizon 2020; European Commission – Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship Program; Facebook; Fujitsu; Google; Microsoft; Tencent; The University of Oxford – John Fell Fund. As part of my science communication and policy outreach, I have also served (as member or Chair) in an unpaid advisory capacity to: Advisory Board, Institute of AI, Foreign Office, UK; Ethics Committee of the Machine Intelligence Garage project, Digital Catapult, UK Innovation Programme; Board of the Centre for Data Ethics an Innovation (CDEI), UK; Technology Advisory Panel, Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), UK; Advisory Board of The Institute for Ethical AI in Education (IEAIE), UK; Ethics Board, Cluster Science of Intelligence (SCIoI), German Excellence Initiative, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation); EU Commission’s High-Level Group on Artificial Intelligence; EY’s AI Advisory Board; Advisory Board, Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications; Leonardo Foundation, Italy; Vatican Committee on the Ethics of AI; Advisory Board on Tech Ethics within the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Data Analytics, UK; Advisory Group on Open Finance, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), UK; Council of Europe’s Expert Committee on Human Rights Dimensions of Automated Data Processing and Different Forms of Artificial Intelligence (MSI-AUT) – Ministers’ Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI); Google’s Advanced Technology External Advisory Council; World Economic Forum’s Council on The Future of Technology, Values and Policy; Scientific Committee of AI4People, “Europe’s first global forum on the social impacts of artificial intelligence”; Advisory Board of the 2018 International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, EDPS, EU; Ethics Advisory Board of IMI-EMIF, the EU’s European Medical Information Framework; Facebook’s Working Group on Digital Ethics; Science Panel of the Commitment to Privacy and Trust in Internet of Things Security (ComPaTrIoTS) Research Hub, EPSRC, UK; Ethics Advisory Group on Ethical Dimensions of Data Protection, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), EU; Royal Society and British Academy Working Group on Data Governance.