Compliant, specialised, ethical: the next
Italian AI

Prompting the Real. Artists–AI Co-creation: this is the title of the exhibition that will light up Palazzo Poggi in Bologna on 15 and 16 November. A valuable opportunity to overturn an action that has now become part of everyday life: the formulation of a prompt, a command that guides the generation by an AI. What happens if, on the contrary, it is the AI that gives an input to the artist within a creative process? Does it open up new scenarios? Or does it reproduce mechanisms from which we would like to free ourselves? The exhibition explores the potential and the limits of this co-creation, a tension between possibility and risk that runs through all fields of artificial intelligence – from creativity to the economy, from urban planning to scientific research. In all these contexts, AI clashes with unpredictable human and social dynamics, nuances of behaviour that are difficult to grasp, complex and layered decision-making levels, and if the models that guide it are not built in a fair, inclusive and safe way, it will hardly be able to produce results that meet expectations. We discussed its pervasiveness, the elaboration of non-stereotyped outputs, and ethical and sustainable models with Michela Milano, director of the centre that conceived Prompting the Real, the Alma Mater Research Institute on Human-Centred Artificial Intelligence (ALMA AI), in collaboration with the National Research Centre in HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing (ICSC) and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), and under the patronage of the FAIR Foundation – Future Artificial Intelligence Research.