This convergence of interests has led to draw a common research program on AI algorithms, with the aim of understanding how they should be projected to be fair. However, as fairness is a multifaceted concept which may derive from very different visions of justice and of our social life, the other aim of this collaboration is to imagine what kind of society we may give birth to, if we chose a certain criterion of fairness instead of another.
As this is a matter of politics, the objective of this part of the research is to help people understand what our democracies may become, if we let AI algorithms do something we as humans use to do, taking a partial or a total control of some of our social systems, as it is starting to happen in economy, law, medicine, etc.
Some of the topics of this research are now part of ERC project called Facets, in which Antonio Santangelo is involved at the University of Turin, where he works on deep fakes and on facial recognition.