Honorary doctorate in “Human Sciences” from the University of Perugia to Reid Hoffman, American entrepreneur and investor, internationally recognized as one of the founding fathers of generative artificial intelligence. The recognition, awarded on the proposal of the department of philosophy, social sciences, humanities and education, on the unanimous resolution of the academic senate, was conferred this morning by the rector Maurizio Oliviero, during a ceremony which took place in the Aula Magna of the the university of the Umbrian capital.
A title awarded to Reid Hoffman “for the fundamental contribution given to the development of this new technological frontier of humanity” which is artificial intelligence and for “having oriented its development since the beginning towards a vision of increasing human capabilities”.
Present at the ceremony was the Umbrian entrepreneur of the homonymous fashion house Brunello Cucinelli, who “fully” shared the initiative which is part of the program of the second “Universal Symposium of the soul and economy of Solomeo”, a three-day event is taking place these days in the Umbrian village of Solomeo to reflect in depth on the relationship between ethics and artificial intelligence.
“In the era of artificial intelligence – said Reid Hoffman during his lecture – we are experiencing an incredible technological transformation, which we must shape and from which we must let ourselves be shaped. After all, we are homo techne; we human beings are builders and users of tools. And when these two elements – humanity and technology – come together, what emerges is not a cyborg, but a better human.” “We come to ourselves, amplified and improved through technology – said the digital entrepreneur -. As I reiterate in the last of my six maxims for the AI era: Futura nobis efficienda potiora quam praesentia.
We have an obligation to make the future better than the present.”
The second “Universal Symposium of the Soul and the Economy of Solomeo” involves a large group of the main international experts in AI and other fields such as humanism, art, science, nature and sees present, among the others, in addition to Hoffman himself, Nicholas Thompson (CEO of The Atlantic), Laurene Powell Jobs (American philanthropist, founder and president of Emerson Collective), James Manyika (SVP Google Technology and Society), Fei-Fei Li (head scientist Stanford’s Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence Institute), Refik Anadol (world-renowned artist), Michael Evans (President of Alibaba), Arvind Krishna (CEO of IBM), Uzodinma Iweala (important African writer), Kevin Scott (Cto of Microsoft ), Pieter Van der Does (CEO of Adyen), Jacqueline Novogratz (important American philanthropist, CEO of Acumen).
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