Benanti Paolo

Education and Professional Career

At the Pontifical Gregorian University, he earned his licentiate in 2008 and his doctorate in moral theology in 2012. His doctoral dissertation, titled “The Cyborg: Body and Corporeality in the Posthuman Era”, won the Belarmino–Vedovato Prize. Since 2008, he has been teaching at the Pontifical Gregorian University, the Theological Institute of Assisi, and the Pontifical Leonian College in Anagni. In addition to institutional courses on sexual morality and bioethics, his teaching and research focus on neuroethics, technology ethics, artificial intelligence, and posthuman studies.

He has served on the Artificial Intelligence Task Force supporting the Agency for Digital Italy and is a corresponding member of the Pontifical Academy for Life, with a special mandate regarding the world of artificial intelligence. At the end of 2018, he was selected by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as one of thirty national experts tasked with developing the national strategy for artificial intelligence and the national strategy for blockchain and distributed ledger technologies.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres appointed him to the UN Committee of Experts on Artificial Intelligence.

Books

Major monographs published include:

Human in the Loop: Human Decisions and Artificial Intelligence, Mondadori Università, Milan, 2022

The Great Invention: Language as Technology, from Cave Paintings to GPT-3, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2021

Seeing the Dawn Inside the Dusk: Plausible Scenarios after Covid-19, Castelvecchi, Rome, 2020

Remembering Too Much: Memory Excesses from Borges to Neuroscience, Marietti, Bologna, 2020

Digital Age: Theory of an Epochal Change. Person, Family, and Society, San Paolo, Cinisello Balsamo, 2020

Oráculos: Entre Ética e Governança dos Algoritmos, Editora Unisinos, 2020

If Man Is Not Enough: Hopes and Fears in the Use of Technology Against Covid-19, Castelvecchi, Rome, 2020

Homo Faber: The Techno-Human Condition, EDB, ebook in English, 2018

Synthetic Reality: From Aspirin to Life, How to Recreate the World?, Castelvecchi, Rome, 2018

The Wise Machines, Marietti, Bologna, 2018