Italy: AI-using Trento city fined over data protection rules violations

Italy: AI-using Trento city fined over data protection rules violations

Italy’s Data Protection Authority, the GPDP, has imposed a 50,000 euro ($54,000) fine on the city of Trento for breaking data protection rules with its use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Reuters reported that the authorities fined the city for using AI in street surveillance projects. Trento, the first city in Italy fined for AI misuse, …

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A Franciscan friar has Pope Francis’ ear on AI

A Franciscan friar has Pope Francis’ ear on AI

ROME (AP) — Friar Paolo Benanti wears the plain brown robes of his medieval Franciscan order as he pursues one of the most pressing issues in contemporary times: how to govern artificial intelligence so that it enriches — and doesn’t exploit — people’s lives. Benanti is the Vatican’s go-to person on the technology and he …

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Italy’s Supervolcano Shows Signs Of Seismic Unrest

Italy’s Supervolcano Shows Signs Of Seismic Unrest

Satellite image of Campi Flegrei also known as the Phlegrean Fields, a supervolcano located mostly … [+] under the Gulf of Pozzuoli west of Naples, Italy. Getty Images Hundreds of tremors, with the strongest being a 4.2-magnitude earthquake, have shaken a densely populated area west of the Italian city of Naples in recent weeks. Experts …

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The Possibility of Italy’s Supervolcano Erupting is Higher Than Initially Estimated

The Possibility of Italy’s Supervolcano Erupting is Higher Than Initially Estimated

The Volcano Solfatara is located just a few kilometers away from Naples and is part of the volcanic … [+] region known as the Phlegrean fields. Corbis via Getty Images A recent study by researchers from University College London (UCL) and Italy’s National Research Institute for Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) reveals that the Campi Flegrei …

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