Enrico Panaï
Biography
Throughout my career, I have collaborated with various companies, organisations and government bodies on projects related to AI ethics. In parallel, I teach at emlyon Business School in France and at the Catholic Universityof the Sacred Heart in Italy. Additionally, I am the president of the Association of AI Ethicists, an organisation that promotes the importance of an ethical approach to the development and use of artificial intelligence. I actively participate in standardisation initiatives as an officer of the French AI standardisation committee at AFNOR, as editor of the standard AI-enhanced nudging in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 WG3 and as convenor of WG4 about Fundamental and societal aspect of AI in CEN-CENELEC JTC21. In CEN-CENELEC JTC21, we are writing the standards for the EU AI ACT.
My main areas of research focus on AI ethics, with particular attention to the development of ethical frameworks to manage and mitigate the risks associated with AI technologies. I am interested in understanding how AI can negatively influence users’ ability to make choices, especially vulnerable groups such as children and adolescents. This work is particularly relevant in the context of nudging AI systems, which can subtly but potentially harmfully influence individuals’ decisions.
I am involved in evaluating the risks associated with the use of AI technologies in sectors such as internal security, migration, and justice, in collaboration with European institutions. Moreover, I work on issues of AI transparency and governance, aiming to develop guidelines and methodologies to ensure the responsible and ethical implementation of artificial intelligence.
Regarding publications, I have written numerous articles and essays focusing on AI ethics and the construction of ethical frameworks that include peripheral and marginalised regions in decision-making processes. One of my upcoming publications is “Raising the Ethical Voice of the Periphery in the Construction of AI Ethics Frameworks”. I have also translated into French Luciano Floridi‘s book, “L’éthique de l’intelligence artificielle”.
On the editorial front, I published in Italian and French “The Ethics of Artificial Intelligence Explained to My Son” (Mimesis, 11 October 2024), a lively dialogue between a father, an AI ethicist, his son, and an eccentric uncle. The book explores the themes of trust and risk in AI. I also published “Skip! The Art of Avoiding Projects” (EDES, 2020), a work that addresses an ecological approach to project management in the information age.
I obtained my university degree from the University of Sassari, where I studied philosophy. I taught for six years as an adjunct professor of Digital Humanities at the Department of Philosophy at the University of Sassari.
Later, I enhanced my expertise in cybersecurity in France at the Institut National de Hautes Etudes de la Sécurité et de la Justice in Paris.
My main research interests concern cyber-geography, human-information interaction, philosophy and ethics of information and semantic capital.
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The book explores normative paths, from hard law to standardisation, and other tools of monitoring and supervision, from ethics to media literacy, that could progressively lead to a fair, comprehensive and balanced governance of AI in the Union.
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