On Sunday, March 15 at 5 pm, AANT took part in the third event in the series What Do Philosophers Do Today? Philosophy in Dialogue, held at the Centro Culturale Polivalente di Cattolica. The event featured Gianna Angelini,Scientific Director and Head of Internationalization at the Academy, in conversation with philosopher Riccardo Manzotti (IULM, Milan) on the theme Knowledge: School, University, Artificial Intelligence, as part of the long-standing series curated by Claudio Paolucci and originally conceived in 1980 by Umberto Eco and Marcello Di Bella. The discussion focused on a crucial issue of our time: how learning, teaching, and the production of knowledge are changing as access to information is increasingly mediated by AI.
AANT’s presence in this context is especially significant because the relationship between artificial intelligence, critical thinking, and educational innovation has been one of the Academy’s key areas of development for over four years. As early as the 2021/2022 academic year, AANT had already launched research activities on the metaverse and AI, investing in dedicated spaces and technologies; in the following years, this work had a concrete impact on study programmes, integrated teaching content, and a cycle of conferences devoted to these themes.
Within this framework, both AI BOUNDS, the format launched by AANT in 2023 to explore the constraints and opportunities of artificial intelligence in art and education, and the Farm project Contaminations, which involved students in the production of a music video entirely created with the support of AI, belong to the same trajectory, addressing in an experimental way its potential, limits, and creative responsibilities.
This path was further strengthened in 2025 with the launch of geniaLAB, an interdisciplinary research hub dedicated to generative artificial intelligence, digital culture, cognitive technologies, and creative innovation, coordinated by Gianna Angelini. In the same year, geniaLAB, joined the network of European CYANOTYPES, Pilots, an Erasmus+ project involving more than twenty partners and experimenting with new approaches to education, research, and innovation in the cultural and creative sectors.
Between the end of 2025 and the beginning of 2026, AANT continued to engage with these issues on multiple levels: through the geniaLAB event dedicated to Claudio Paolucci’s Nati Cyborg; participation in the international conference From Mimesis to Machine at the Swiss Institute; the BIP AI meets SDG’s; the Erasmus+ workshop on generative AI, identity, and human rights; and the Refresh Week, which included a workshop on biosignals and emotional artificial intelligence.