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Who Is Actually Teaching Our AI Systems Their Values? Article 4 of the AI Act asks organisations to ensure a sufficient level of AI literacy among their staff. Compliance work naturally focuses on…
Isaac Asimov wrote his "Three Laws of Robotics" back in 1942, in the short story "Runaround." He imagined rules to keep machines in check before anyone had actually built one worth worrying about…
THE CRIME AGAINST TECHNOLOGY
The Developmental Harm, Its Doubled Blind Spot, and the Responsibility of the Cohort Still Able to Act<…
I saw the headline in The Economist about big AI labs hiring philosophers, and my first reaction was somewhere between “Gee, finally” and “Oh good, we’ve…
Stefano Valente, MD
ORCID: 0009-0005-0152-2577
23 June 2026
While the European Union invests heavily in the Silver…
The Harm That Looks Like Helpfulness
The EU AI Act has built a sophisticated architecture for detecting risk. It asks whether systems are transparent, whether they…
Two concepts are missing from current AI governance discourse — not because they are obscure, but because they are so fundamental that frameworks have passed over them in favour of proxies.
Stefano Valente, MD — Independent Researcher, Italy
Based on Zenodo DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20546168
1. Context and Motivation
Across the last decade, conversational AI design has…
An ethical man knows it’s wrong to cheat on his wife.
A moral man doesn’t cheat on his wife.
It’s a clear distinction, blunt enough to survive being repeated, useful precisely because…
I. Two Documents, One Obligation
On 25 May 2026, Pope Leo XIV published Magnifica Humanitas — his first encyclical,…
