Intelligenza artificiale: il rischio come opportunità

The word intelligence makes us think of human brain functions and recalling it for non-human machines is not adequate. When we talk about artificial intelligence we refer to an automated decision-making process and that is to the fact that a user initially delegating a decision, partly or completely, to an entity by way of using software or a service; whereas that entity then in turn uses automatically executed decision-making models to perform an action on behalf of a user, or to inform the user’s decisions in performing an action. This can be deduced from the European Parliament resolution of 20 October 2020 with recommendations to the Commission on a civil liability regime for artificial intelligence (2020/2014 (INL), which proposes to use the term “automated decision-making” rather than artificial intelligence, precisely to avoid the ambiguities of the latter expression. What has been said presents us with a difference: that of a decision delegated in part and that of a decision entirely delegated to entities that use software. As long as it can be said that the decision is not totally attributable to an artificial intelligence system - even if only because there are margins for human oversight - we can speak of risk. If, on the other hand, man cannot participate, albeit within the said limits, in the decision, then we must ask ourselves whether it is more appropriate to speak of danger. In this way, it is possible to verify that the risk is confirmed as an opportunity