Anna Maria Angelone, Journalist and podcaster specializing in international affairs, has provided us with an interesting Cultural and social viewpoint on artificial intelligence.

She started her career with a typewriter and now finds herself using the voice assistant “Paul” for her podcast and other technological tools that have revolutionized and significantly sped up journalistic research.

From his point of view AI, as with any technological innovation, will bring with it positive and negative social and cultural consequences based on how it will be used. This is why a solution is being sought in the European landscape to ensure, on the one hand, a balanced use of these new tools and, on the other, to protect the most vulnerable and easily impressionable individuals.

Regulation that could create a significant gap internationally between countries that implement limitations and those that do not place any restrictions on new technologies and their risks.

In the journalistic sector, however, the advent of fake news and its widespread dissemination has highlighted a change in the world of news. In the era of “post-truth,” journalists can no longer distinguish truth from falsehood and perform the role of a filter.

From this point of view, it will be important Understand technology and choose to use it intelligently, because it is man who “instructs” the machine and not the other way around.

Our speech corner “nAIce to meet you” at Netcomm Forum 2023 was an opportunity to explore the full potential of artificial intelligence from different perspectives and discover our guests' valuable insight into the near future in digital. If you want to discover all the contributions of our guests, click here.