La Statale per l'AI – Data ecosystems: Reconceptualising AI infrastructures

This lecture by Professor Sabrina Leonelli introduces the interdependence between AI and the data ecosystem, placing particular emphasis on the digital data infrastructures supporting AI tools, such as databases and cloud services. I discuss the opportunities, challenges and fragility of data infrastructures used to train and continuously feed AI systems, and point towards the significance of governance structures that encourage meaningful interaction with the conditions under which data are generated, processed, disseminated and re-used. Such governance includes forms of mediation and curation aimed at improving both the actionability and the accountability of data and their prospective use.