Artificial Intelligence and Human Dialogue

The complexity of the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems on society and on people’s lives calls for a dialogue between people with different expertises and different roles in society. In this article we discuss many facets of this dialogue, exploring specific issues that emerge in AI cross-disciplinary research, and showing how different approaches and methodologies can cooperate and produce new insights without losing their specificity. We also remark the significance of a dialogue between science and technology, and that between the research community and the society, which bring to light the different responsibilities involved in an ethical approach to artificial intelligence.