00:00This academic year opens to the teaching of technological innovation.
00:09Artificial intelligence for the university, for the university system in general, but for LUIS in particular,
00:15will be a great revolution of content, of university curriculum,
00:20but also of tools for the training and growth of students.
00:24LUIS has always been an institution devoted to the training of the leadership class.
00:30In today's world, the leadership class needs to combine technological skills
00:35with a much broader culture based on humanistic sciences,
00:40therefore on critical thinking, on the ability to interact with artificial intelligence.
00:46Without this interaction, the risk is that artificial intelligence will replace intellectual work,
00:52and we want our students to increase their abilities, their productivity
00:58and their performance in solving problems.
01:01In this way, artificial intelligence will be a great ally for our society.
01:06LUIS is at the forefront of research and training for this,
01:10to use artificial intelligence in this way.
01:13A double approach.
01:14The first approach is to have a digital AI literacy badge,
01:19which will be mandatory for all our master's graduates,
01:25and will be gradually extended to all students.
01:28And this is to clearly and strongly certify the acquisition of skills
01:33on the use of artificial intelligence as a tool that increases intellectual capacity.
01:38And second, the modification of all teachings.
01:41For this reason, we have appointed a prorector at Artificial Intelligence and Digital Skills,
01:45who has the task of helping those responsible for the training offer
01:50to change the curriculum of the courses of study
01:53and to enter directly, together with other colleagues,
01:56into the syllables that explain how to use artificial intelligence
02:00in finance, in marketing, in policymaking processes within institutions.
02:06So, a concrete tool that will be used in all the classrooms,
02:11all the studies courses of LUIS.
02:13The AI4Society research must be considered a reference point
02:18for the entire business system, institutions, the public system,
02:22because it will not only be a place of academic excellence,
02:27because we are recruiting the best minds,
02:31the best colleagues, professors, researchers in this sector,
02:36with an interdisciplinary approach.
02:38So not only technological, but also of use in the various specific domains.
02:42But it will be a laboratory of experimentation.
02:45A laboratory of experimentation in which companies and institutions
02:49will be able to experiment, innovate,
02:53adopting use cases together with our researchers,
02:56seeing how they can work.
02:58And this will happen both in our offices in Rome
03:01and in our office in Milan.
03:03So to give the possibility to small and medium-sized companies
03:08and even larger companies in Milan
03:11to have a reference point close to them.
03:14I believe this is a duty of our university,
03:17which is called not only to train the leadership class,
03:20but also to generate impact and innovation on society
03:24together with those who want to work with us.
03:26Europe, in the last year, year and a half,
03:29has approved this regulation, AIACT,
03:32which has an approach of attention to the use of artificial intelligence
03:37in a risk-based logic.
03:39So attention to the risks in use.
03:41Now, that of G7, instead, is a movement, in our opinion,
03:45that event of G7 is an event that pushes us a little forward.
03:49So it gives us the opportunity to understand
03:51that artificial intelligence can be an ally,
03:54if used responsibly, as we all intend to do,
03:58if used as a tool that increases capabilities,
04:02it can be a great flywheel for solving the problems of time.
04:06Italy, from this point of view,
04:09can truly represent a bridge,
04:12a place that connects all of Europe,
04:15the entire Western world,
04:16with the great development that will take place
04:18in the countries of the Mediterranean and Africa,
04:20linked in particular to demographic development.
04:24But, as they have taught us in many countries,
04:28perhaps not European,
04:29demographic development and the growth of the GDP
04:32are no longer necessarily correlated.
04:34There is always a growth of productivity
04:36connected to technology.
04:38Now, the real challenge,
04:39and I believe that this G7 has clarified it,
04:42is to make sure that the growth of productivity
04:44through technology
04:46has a positive impact on wages and social inclusion.
04:50So the real challenge is to find the balance
04:53between the growth of wealth,
04:55productivity, wages and social inclusion.
04:58Artificial intelligence, if misused,
05:01can be an element that increases the wealth of the few,
05:06and therefore increases the gaps.
05:08If used well,
05:09as we intend to do,
05:11certainly he,
05:12but I think that culture and Italian leadership
05:15can be very useful in this,
05:17it can be a tool that generates well-being and wealth
05:21by maintaining the ties
05:23and an integrated and connected social system.
05:26So, perhaps even by reducing the social gaps that we have today.
05:29This is our approach,
05:31and I believe that Italy can play an important cultural role
05:36for the leadership of artificial intelligence globally.
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