the agreementBeyond the plea bargain: Open questions on Meta and children’s mental healthThe settlement brings the dispute to a close and limits the damages, but identifies a remedy for a problem that still needs to be investigatedbyGilberto Corbellini e Alberto Mingardi28 AUG 26
IMPARTIAL INTELLIGENCEWhat if AI didn’t want to destroy us, but actually learnt from us how to behave?AI does not need to destroy humanity in order to survive. Like Adam Smith’s spectator, language models learn through experience. And perhaps they will manage to imitate us. Hypotheses against the ApocalypsebyGilberto Corbellini e Alberto Mingardi22 AUG 26
The analysisChildren and social media: a new problem we’re tackling with old toolsComics and video games used to be the bogeymen. They were criticised using the very same arguments we would like to use againstbyAlberto Mingardi1 AUG 26
The analysisMajority vote. What do Italians choose at the ballot box?Democracy, long held in check; the needs of the ‘little people’; the Second Republic. And the reforms that lie ahead. Because ‘liberal’ does not rhyme with ‘proportional’byAlberto Mingardi22 JUL 26
The analysisLearning to interpret data on ‘heat-related deaths’ to counter alarmismRecord temperatures alone are not enough to explain heat-related deaths: data, denominators and context are needed. Amid misleading perceptions, statistical biases and the body’s ability to adapt, the reality is more complex than the summer heat warnings suggest byGilberto Corbellini e Alberto Mingardi18 JUL 26