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The rollout of AI across organizations is often portrayed as a simple race toward optimization. But reducing AI to just another software upgrade underestimates its fundamentally "relational" nature. These systems do more than simply perform tasks—they generate recommendations that can profoundly shape our thinking. In a market that demands immediate responses, the real risk is trading speed for value.

Face to face with Federica Gini: designer and UX researcher with a focus on collaboration. After completing her PhD in Cognitive Science at UNITN and FBK, she explores gamification and how game elements can encourage people to make a difference.

How can the user experience of video games stimulate engagement and change behavior, particularly using artificial intelligence? Prof. Nacke, a pioneer in the field of games, gamification, and user experience, held a seminar on this topic at FBK on December 9, 2025.

Riccardo Gallotti interviews Luca De Biase: an unprecedented, inverted dialogue between a scientist and a journalist in the name of media ecology—combining critical analysis of today’s information landscape with proposals for interventions that help redefine the rules of the game to promote information quality.

November 6 the initiatives for the digital transition of the region carried out under the Flagship Project were presented — 20 million euros from the PNC for four areas of intervention. In Trentino, another 1,254 projects from the PNRR amount to 40 million euros.

FBK’s Center for Cybersecurity has completed the first service of the InnovAction project, testing a GPU-as-a-Service model to optimize the cost of this valuable resource. This activity was funded through the project in collaboration with the SME Clastix. The solution works and delivers a significant impact.

How can we build an ethical artificial intelligence (AI)? AI Ethics Canvas is a practical and interdisciplinary instrument based on research conducted by FBK’s Digital Common Lab within the AIxPA project, led by the Autonomous Province of Trento with FBK’s collaboration. Riccardo Nanni was among the main players in building the canvas. This tool presents a set of questions to which a multidisciplinary team needs to answer to devise an AI-driven service for public administrations (PAs). The AI Ethics Canvas helps to balance functionaries’ duties and obligations with citizens’ needs by providing a clear method to address these challenges. It is available for everyone to download.

Fondazione Bruno Kessler's projects

The European Digital Deal consortium is seeking through its partner Sineglossa an individual artist or collective for a project on disinformation and the fascination of stories. Up for grabs 25,000 euros and an internship at Bologna's Tecnopolo.

Piotr Lewandowski, a well-known Polish economist, presented preliminary results of a joint research study aimed at assessing the impact of automation (industrial robots) on household income inequality in 14 European countries.

Tomaso Poggio is the Head of the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines and is an international pioneer in the field of Artificial Intelligence. On occasion of the workshop "DEEP LEARNING: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" which took place in Povo - where he had worked at the time of Prof. Luigi Stringa - we asked him some questions to better understand AI and what we have to expect in the near future.

The 220m€ investment provides permanent capacity to deliver responsible AI in Europe by testing AI solutions in practice before they hit the market and become a part of healthcare, manufacturing, agrifood and everyday life. One of those is the agrifoodTEF initiative: coordinated by Raffaele Giaffreda (FBK), it deals with the agricultural sector and food production.

Held as part of Wired Next Fest Trentino 2023, "The Rules of the Perfect Algorithm," a diascussion between Marco Guerini, head of the FBK LanD research unit, and Lorenzo Cella, software engineer known to most as the creator of PizzaGpt.

Tonight the talk by Paolo Traverso and Paolo Benanti in Piazza Malfatti at Rovereto

The new EU-funded project that will kick off in autumn 2023, with 21 partner organisations from 9 countries across Europe, is set to develop a new generation of human-centric AI systems and to strengthen the leadership of Europe in this area

The European challenge for the artificial intelligence to come: being less muscular than the "made in the U.S.A." or "made in China" ones, more creative and above all capable of integrating skills and technologies to make people and machines work together. It is Integrative AI capable of creating solutions that will have an impact in many areas of our daily lives: health, cities, local areas, work.

Fake news is a big challenge for society, and artificial intelligence can help. The European project will improve factchecking by testing new methodologies and tools and automatically analyzing text, audio and video sources in 7 different languages

WebValley, Trento-based Fondazione Bruno Kessler's international summer school, organized in collaboration with Istituto Artigianelli opens to a new challenge by involving about 20 girls and boys between 17 and 19 years old in a data science project dedicated to air quality monitoring.

Images and privacy of citizens in a Smart City. FBK participates in the MARVEL European project

Oliviero Stock talks to Viviana Lupi on how AI has dramatically changed and will change human life.

The complex relationship between Big Data, AI ethics, religion, and non-religion

With an additional act, the Province of Trento has allocated 1.2 million to FBK for the new "AI-TN" project aimed at carrying out activities in connection with artificial intelligence, including activities in collaboration with the University of Trento.

TOTEM: A dip into the past through the eyes of the present and with the help of 3D

On 27 August, the 2021 edition of WebValley ended, the summer school organized by FBK which gives Italian and international students the opportunity to confront themselves within the mare magnum of new technologies applied to scientific research. The enthusiasm of their testimonies is a certainty for our present and for the future.

3D optical measurement techniques allow to inspect industrial components for quality control analyses, being very flexible, accurate and, sometimes even low cost

AI for Earth is Microsoft's international program that has supported people and organizations facing global environmental challenges since 2017, helping to implement projects based on Artificial Intelligence

Interview with the expert in technology ethics Paolo Benanti

A contract was signed to transcribe and translate the speeches of parliamentarians with an innovative system. The new technology preserves human sensitivity towards the nuances of language incomprehensible to machines

Risks and benefits of using artificial intelligence in medicine: the perspectives of law and technology.

The first webinar organized by FBK-ISIG in the time of Covid-19 focused on the analysis by media historian Simone Natale

Fondaziobe Bruno Kessler in the "Humane AI" consortium that should outline the European strategy for human-centered artificial intelligence

Interview with Piero Poccianti, president of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA)

Fondazione Bruno Kessler helps Cavit and Trentino based farmers with an artificial intelligence predictive system that indicates the optimal ripening degree of the grape bunch

The Italian edition of the book written by Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, and published by Guerini Next is out. The preface is signed by Paolo Traverso, FBK-ICT director

From 1st to 3rd February, the first Italian datathon was held at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan, organised by the European Society of Intensive Medicine (ESICM). The competition was on challenges related to the processing of Electronic Health Records of patients from Intensive Care Units (ICU), published by Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Trento is hosting the conference and the exhibition organized by Fondazione Bruno Kessler on the relationship between human beings and technology

We met the prof. Ronald J. Brachman at the FBK headquarters during the conference "The pleasure of research in AI", here is his perspective on AI as a long run researcher

WebValley 2018: over 70 applications from 17 and 18 year-old kids from all over Italy. This year's theme: Machine Learning for Healthcare with Privacy-by-Design

FBK research on artificial intelligence as a demanding and patient practice to keep together technological progress and human development

The first Italian forum on power transmission for cars and off-road vehicles for the new domain of sustainable and efficient mobility is being held on February 15 and 16. Experts and operators from all over the world are expected.

President Profumo presented the new strategic and business plans, dedicated to Artificial Intelligence. A tight 2018 calendar of events, starting with the sixth Bruno Kessler Lecture with Piero Angela

The meeting "Artificial Intelligence and Us" hosted at Fondazione Corriere della Sera on November 6, has pointed out that man and machine are not antagonists and that a 'peaceful' existence in the era of artificial intelligence may be possible. As long as it we invest in young people and their training.

On November 6, the historic offices of the Corriere della Sera newspaper of Via Solferino in Milan, will be hosting a meeting on "Artificial Intelligence and Us", an event that offers a picture of the latest applications and current developments, outlining future horizons.

Marco Cristoforetti, a researcher at FBK's MPBA Unit who prepared a space at the Rimini Meeting, speaks of the important role played by machines and machine learning techniques in biomedical applications. With a look at ethics and the future

On February 20, 2017, during the meeting for the presentation of the PhD program, the researcher from Sicily, FBK doctorate program alumnus, told us about his adventure in the world of artificial intelligence.

Paolo Traverso, ICT Center Director was the co-chair of the panel “Digitising Manufacturing” dealing with AI application in future industries. Outcomes of the panel will be officially transmitted to G20 ministers and discussed during the G20 Summit in Berlin April 6-7th '17.