Daniele Chiffi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1296612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniele Chiffi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniele |
| FAMILY NAME | Chiffi |
| SIGNATURE | CHIFFI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Politecnico di Milano |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5487-8244 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Responsibility and planning amid growing urban complexity and AI proliferation
This paper focuses on issues pertaining to the risks and responsibilities associated with growing complexity and the spread of AI technologies in the urban context. Arguing that such risks are often systemic, it analyses three structural responsibility problems, each linked to a distinct form of dispersion. The problem of many hands concerns the difficulty of attributing responsibility due to the dispersion of agency among the multiple actors inv…
The role of uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis for natural risks prevention
The management of natural risks is a complex endeavour, which encompasses a plurality of measures intervening at different stages. But given that resources to be dedicated to this endeavour are limited, choices need to be made among alternative measures, to ensure that risk management is both effective and efficient. One of the principal tools to make decisions concerning the best use of limited resources is cost-benefit analysis – a tool which, …
Keep trusting! A plea for the notion of Trustworthy AI
A lot of attention has recently been devoted to the notion of Trustworthy AI (TAI). However, the very applicability of the notions of trust and trustworthiness to AI systems has been called into question. A purely epistemic account of trust can hardly ground the distinction between trustworthy and merely reliable AI, while it has been argued that insisting on the importance of the trustee’s motivations and goodwill makes the notion of TAI a categ…
AI-Related Risk
Risks connected with AI systems have become a recurrent topic in public and academic debates, and the European proposal for the AI Act explicitly adopts a risk-based tiered approach that associates different levels of regulation with different levels of risk. However, a comprehensive and general framework to think about AI-related risk is still lacking. In this work, we aim to provide an epistemological analysis of such risk building upon the exi…
Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering
The importance of epistemic values in science is universally recognized, whereas the role of non-epistemic values is sometimes considered disputable. It has often been argued that non-epistemic values are more relevant in applied sciences, where the goals are often practical and not merely scientific. In this paper, we present a case study concerning earthquake engineering. So far, the philosophical literature has considered various branches of e…
Planning and meta-planning to cope with disruptive events
The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed and discussed from many disciplinary perspectives. An aspect that still needs critical exploration is the role—that is, the modes and forms—of regulatory interventions during the pandemic. It is interesting to note in this regard that, in many studies, regulatory measures are labelled “non-pharmaceutical interventions”, as if they do not have any specificity on their own and only represent a theoretically r…
Frege
In Die Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (I, §48), Frege introduces his rule of the fusion of horizontals, according to which if an occurrence of the horizontal stroke is followed by another occurrence of the same stroke, either in isolation or “contained” in a propositional connective, the two occurrences can be fused with each other. However, the role of this rule, and of the horizontal sign more generally, is controversial; Michael Dummett notorious…
Types of Technological Innovation in the Face of Uncertainty
Technological innovation is almost always investigated from an economic perspective; with few exceptions, the specific technological and social nature of innovation is often ignored. We argue that a novel way to characterise and make sense of different types of technological innovation is to start considering uncertainty. This seems plausible since technological development and innovation almost always occur under conditions of uncertainty. We re…
We don’t know we don’t know
Abductive inference within a pragmatic framework
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research
Abductive inference within a pragmatic framework
Anticipation, abduction and the economy of research
We don’t know we don’t know
Types of Technological Innovation in the Face of Uncertainty
Technological innovation is almost always investigated from an economic perspective; with few exceptions, the specific technological and social nature of innovation is often ignored. We argue that a novel way to characterise and make sense of different types of technological innovation is to start considering uncertainty. This seems plausible since technological development and innovation almost always occur under conditions of uncertainty. We re…
Epistemic and Non-epistemic Values in Earthquake Engineering
The importance of epistemic values in science is universally recognized, whereas the role of non-epistemic values is sometimes considered disputable. It has often been argued that non-epistemic values are more relevant in applied sciences, where the goals are often practical and not merely scientific. In this paper, we present a case study concerning earthquake engineering. So far, the philosophical literature has considered various branches of e…
Planning and meta-planning to cope with disruptive events
The Covid-19 pandemic has been analysed and discussed from many disciplinary perspectives. An aspect that still needs critical exploration is the role—that is, the modes and forms—of regulatory interventions during the pandemic. It is interesting to note in this regard that, in many studies, regulatory measures are labelled “non-pharmaceutical interventions”, as if they do not have any specificity on their own and only represent a theoretically r…
Frege
In Die Grundgesetze der Arithmetik (I, §48), Frege introduces his rule of the fusion of horizontals, according to which if an occurrence of the horizontal stroke is followed by another occurrence of the same stroke, either in isolation or “contained” in a propositional connective, the two occurrences can be fused with each other. However, the role of this rule, and of the horizontal sign more generally, is controversial; Michael Dummett notorious…
Keep trusting! A plea for the notion of Trustworthy AI
A lot of attention has recently been devoted to the notion of Trustworthy AI (TAI). However, the very applicability of the notions of trust and trustworthiness to AI systems has been called into question. A purely epistemic account of trust can hardly ground the distinction between trustworthy and merely reliable AI, while it has been argued that insisting on the importance of the trustee’s motivations and goodwill makes the notion of TAI a categ…
AI-Related Risk
Risks connected with AI systems have become a recurrent topic in public and academic debates, and the European proposal for the AI Act explicitly adopts a risk-based tiered approach that associates different levels of regulation with different levels of risk. However, a comprehensive and general framework to think about AI-related risk is still lacking. In this work, we aim to provide an epistemological analysis of such risk building upon the exi…
Responsibility and planning amid growing urban complexity and AI proliferation
This paper focuses on issues pertaining to the risks and responsibilities associated with growing complexity and the spread of AI technologies in the urban context. Arguing that such risks are often systemic, it analyses three structural responsibility problems, each linked to a distinct form of dispersion. The problem of many hands concerns the difficulty of attributing responsibility due to the dispersion of agency among the multiple actors inv…
The role of uncertainty in cost-benefit analysis for natural risks prevention
The management of natural risks is a complex endeavour, which encompasses a plurality of measures intervening at different stages. But given that resources to be dedicated to this endeavour are limited, choices need to be made among alternative measures, to ensure that risk management is both effective and efficient. One of the principal tools to make decisions concerning the best use of limited resources is cost-benefit analysis – a tool which, …
Computer Science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Philosophy of science (5 works) · Economics (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Risk Perception and Management (3 works)