Dr Paolo Benanti

Associate Professor at Luiss Guido Carli University

Speaker

Father Benanti is an associate professor at the LUISS University. He is also a Vatican Consultant on AI, President of Italian Government Commission on the impact of AI on media and journalism, and a lecturer and author of numerous publications about the ethical impact of AI. From 2008-2025 he was a lecturer at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He works on neuroethics, ethics of technologies, artificial intelligence and the posthuman. He was part of the Artificial Intelligence Task Force to assist the Agency for Digital Italy. He is a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life with a particular mandate for the world of artificial intelligence. In late 2018, he was selected by the Ministry of Economic Development as a member of the group of thirty experts tasked at the national level with developing the national strategy on artificial intelligence and the national strategy on shared ledger and blockchain-based technologies. In 2023 was selected by General Secretary of United Nation Guterres to be part of the group of 38 expert to develop a proposal for a global governance of the AI.