Davide Battisti
Biographic Data
| ID | 4620400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Davide Battisti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Davide |
| FAMILY NAME | Battisti |
| SIGNATURE | BATTISTI D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bergamo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6175-9625 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exploring Repro‐Timing Harm and Benefit
It is plausible that time of birth affects one's prospects for wellbeing. Being born during a war or recession might have a negative impact on early life and lifetime wellbeing. In natural reproduction, delaying conception does not result in the same child being born later, but rather a different child altogether; therefore, prospective parents cannot harm/benefit their children by choosing their time of birth. However, we argue that for prospect…
Personalised LLMs and the risks of the digital twin metaphor
Can an AI truly be your digital twin? Technology companies, startups, and even academic researchers increasingly claim so. From grief-bots that promise to let you talk with deceased loved ones to clinical tools designed to predict patients' treatment preferences, personalized Large Language Models are being marketed as faithful replications of individual identity, personality, and values. The digital twin label—borrowed from industrial engineerin…
Yes, a Clunky Love Letter Written by Your Partner Is Better than an Eloquent One Written by AI
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments
This paper puts forward a wish list of requirements for formal fairness in the specific context of triage in emergency departments (EDs) and maps the empirical and conceptual research questions that need to be addressed in this context in the near future. The pandemic has brought to the fore the necessity for public debate about how to allocate resources fairly in a situation of great shortage. However, issues of fairness arise also outside of pa…
Co-authoring Apologies with ChatGPT Can Support Relationships but not Second-Person Authenticity
In this paper, I offer a reply to Lavazza (2025), who states that using an LLM as a co-author to apologize to a partner – far from compromising second-person authenticity – can improve relational morality. I agree that some valuable aspects of the relationship may be enhanced in the co-authorship context; however, the second-person authenticity standard cannot still be adequately met. At best, using ChatGPT as a co-author might be compatible with…
Second-Person Authenticity and the Mediating Role of AI
The development of AI tools, such as large language models and speech emotion and facial expression recognition systems, has raised new ethical concerns about AI’s impact on human relationships. While much of the debate has focused on human-AI relationships, less attention has been devoted to another class of ethical issues, which arise when AI mediates human-to-human relationships. This paper opens the debate on these issues by analyzing the cas…
Who decides who goes first? Taking democracy seriously in micro-allocative healthcare decisions
The structural scarcity of healthcare resources has deeply challenged their fair distribution, prompting the need for allocation criteria. Long under the spotlight of the bioethical debate with an extraordinary peak during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, micro-allocation of healthcare has been extensively discussed in the literature with regard to issues of substantive and formal justice. This paper addresses a relatively underdiscussed question wi…
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction
Procreative obligations are often discussed by evaluating only the consequences of reproductive actions or omissions; less attention is paid to the moral role of intentions and attitudes. In this paper, I assess whether intentions and attitudes can contribute to defining our moral obligations with regard to assisted reproductive technologies already available, such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and those that may be available in fut…
Deciding the Criteria Is Not Enough
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, practitioners had to make tragic decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources in the ICU. The Italian debate has paid a lot of attention to identifying the specific regulatory criteria for the allocation of resources in the ICU; in this paper, however, we argue that deciding such criteria is not enough for the implementation of fair and transparent allocative decisions. In this re…
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis
Knowledge brokers are among the main channels of communication between scientists and the public and a key element to establishing a relation of trust between the two. But translating knowledge from the scientific community to a wider audience presents several difficulties, which can be accentuated in times of crisis. In this paper we study some of the problems that knowledge brokers face when communicating in times of crisis. During the first wa…
Affecting future individuals
Assisted reproductive technologies have greatly increased our control over reproductive choices, leading some bioethicists to argue that we face unprecedented moral obligations towards progeny. Several models attempting to balance the principle of procreative autonomy with these obligations have been proposed. The least demanding is the minimal threshold model (MTM), according to which every reproductive choice is permissible, except creating chi…
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Affecting future individuals
Assisted reproductive technologies have greatly increased our control over reproductive choices, leading some bioethicists to argue that we face unprecedented moral obligations towards progeny. Several models attempting to balance the principle of procreative autonomy with these obligations have been proposed. The least demanding is the minimal threshold model (MTM), according to which every reproductive choice is permissible, except creating chi…
Deciding the Criteria Is Not Enough
During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy, practitioners had to make tragic decisions regarding the allocation of scarce resources in the ICU. The Italian debate has paid a lot of attention to identifying the specific regulatory criteria for the allocation of resources in the ICU; in this paper, however, we argue that deciding such criteria is not enough for the implementation of fair and transparent allocative decisions. In this re…
Knowledge Brokers in Crisis
Knowledge brokers are among the main channels of communication between scientists and the public and a key element to establishing a relation of trust between the two. But translating knowledge from the scientific community to a wider audience presents several difficulties, which can be accentuated in times of crisis. In this paper we study some of the problems that knowledge brokers face when communicating in times of crisis. During the first wa…
Attitudes, intentions and procreative responsibility in current and future assisted reproduction
Procreative obligations are often discussed by evaluating only the consequences of reproductive actions or omissions; less attention is paid to the moral role of intentions and attitudes. In this paper, I assess whether intentions and attitudes can contribute to defining our moral obligations with regard to assisted reproductive technologies already available, such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), and those that may be available in fut…
Yes, a Clunky Love Letter Written by Your Partner Is Better than an Eloquent One Written by AI
A proposal for formal fairness requirements in triage emergency departments
This paper puts forward a wish list of requirements for formal fairness in the specific context of triage in emergency departments (EDs) and maps the empirical and conceptual research questions that need to be addressed in this context in the near future. The pandemic has brought to the fore the necessity for public debate about how to allocate resources fairly in a situation of great shortage. However, issues of fairness arise also outside of pa…
Co-authoring Apologies with ChatGPT Can Support Relationships but not Second-Person Authenticity
In this paper, I offer a reply to Lavazza (2025), who states that using an LLM as a co-author to apologize to a partner – far from compromising second-person authenticity – can improve relational morality. I agree that some valuable aspects of the relationship may be enhanced in the co-authorship context; however, the second-person authenticity standard cannot still be adequately met. At best, using ChatGPT as a co-author might be compatible with…
Second-Person Authenticity and the Mediating Role of AI
The development of AI tools, such as large language models and speech emotion and facial expression recognition systems, has raised new ethical concerns about AI’s impact on human relationships. While much of the debate has focused on human-AI relationships, less attention has been devoted to another class of ethical issues, which arise when AI mediates human-to-human relationships. This paper opens the debate on these issues by analyzing the cas…
Who decides who goes first? Taking democracy seriously in micro-allocative healthcare decisions
The structural scarcity of healthcare resources has deeply challenged their fair distribution, prompting the need for allocation criteria. Long under the spotlight of the bioethical debate with an extraordinary peak during the recent COVID-19 pandemic, micro-allocation of healthcare has been extensively discussed in the literature with regard to issues of substantive and formal justice. This paper addresses a relatively underdiscussed question wi…
Exploring Repro‐Timing Harm and Benefit
It is plausible that time of birth affects one's prospects for wellbeing. Being born during a war or recession might have a negative impact on early life and lifetime wellbeing. In natural reproduction, delaying conception does not result in the same child being born later, but rather a different child altogether; therefore, prospective parents cannot harm/benefit their children by choosing their time of birth. However, we argue that for prospect…
Personalised LLMs and the risks of the digital twin metaphor
Can an AI truly be your digital twin? Technology companies, startups, and even academic researchers increasingly claim so. From grief-bots that promise to let you talk with deceased loved ones to clinical tools designed to predict patients' treatment preferences, personalized Large Language Models are being marketed as faithful replications of individual identity, personality, and values. The digital twin label—borrowed from industrial engineerin…
Psychology (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Allocative efficiency (3 works) · Bioethics (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics in medical practice (3 works)