Floridi, Luciano, Normative Inflation and the Crying Wolf Effect in the International Governance of AI (March 12, 2026). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper (forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6404798
Novelli, Claudio and Floridi, Luciano and Larsson, Stefan and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Winter, Steven L., The Artificial in “Artificial Intelligence”: How Imagination Shapes AI Regulation (February 23, 2026). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper (forthcoming), Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6289639
Sass, Reuben and Novelli, Claudio and Zio, Enrico, Quantifying Values: The Problem of AI Risk (January 27, 2026). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6140546
Higgs, James and Novelli, Claudio and Floridi, Luciano, Microtransactions and Cybercrime: How To Improve Video Game Ecosystem Security (January 15, 2026). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6077650
Floridi, Luciano, AI and Semantic Pareidolia: When We See Consciousness Where There Is None (revised version) (January 12, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5309682
Neo, Hui-Yuan and Higgs, James and Floridi, Luciano, Social Media Elections, Bureaucratic Mimicry, and the Erosion of State Power: The Case of Nepal (January 12, 2026). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6064531
Floridi, Luciano, Philosophical Microhistory: Its Nature, Scope, Value, and Challenges (January 06, 2026). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6030914
Floridi, Luciano and Morley, Jessica and Novelli, Claudio and Watson, David, What Kind of Reasoning (if any) is an LLM actually doing? On the Stochastic Nature and Abductive Appearance of Large Language Models (revised) (December 10, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5901962
Floridi, Luciano and Jia, Yiyang and Tohme, Fernando, A Categorical Analysis of Large Language Models and Why LLMs Circumvent the Symbol Grounding Problem (December 9, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper (forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5894082
Floridi, Luciano, A Humanistic and Ethical Approach to Robotics, Automation, and Digitalisation (invited article for Insight - Anuario de la Asociación Española de Robótica y Automatización, to celebrate the 2025 Barcelona Declaration) (November 02, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper (forthcoming). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5696022
Ghetti, Riccardo and Novelli, Claudio and Hacker, Philipp and Floridi, Luciano, AI and Investment Services in EU Law: The Case for MiFID III (September 23, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5522839
Hine, Emmie and Floridi, Luciano, Winning the AI Race? The US AI Action Plan in Context (September 16, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5494858
Floridi, Luciano, A Humanistic and Ethical Approach to Robotics, Automation, and Digitalisation (September 14, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5485366
Floridi, Luciano and Ascani, Anna, Augmented Democracy in Action: AI Systems for Legislative Innovation in the Italian Parliament (September 9, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5462560
Novelli, Claudio, The Radial Conception of Legal Personhood in Seven Theses (August 22, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5402201
Roberts, Huw and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, A framework for evaluating global AI governance initiatives (July 27, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5367969
Buttaboni, Carlotta and Floridi, Luciano, A Taxonomy of AI Opacity in the EU: Rethinking Transparency, Traceability, Interpretability, and Explainability (July 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5364019
Shanklin, Grant and Hine, Emmie and Novelli, Claudio and Schroder, Tyler and Floridi, Luciano, The Case for Contextual Copyleft: Licensing Open Source Training Data and Generative AI (July 16, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5354897
Floridi, Luciano and Morley, Jessica and Novelli, Claudio, Red Reading the Text: On How to Red Team Texts Using LLMs Version 2 - revised (July 01, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5334808
Novelli, Claudio and Hacker, Philipp and McDougall, Simon and Morley, Jessica and Rotolo, Antonino and Floridi, Luciano, Getting Regulatory Sandboxes Right: Design and Governance Under the AI Act (June 30, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5332161
Floridi, Luciano, Afterword of the Book “Encounters - An Experiment in Distant Writing” (June 29, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5329977
Floridi, Luciano and Holweg, Matthias and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Amaya Silva, Javier and Mökander, Jakob and Wen, Yuni, A Procedure for Conducting Conformity Assessment of AI Systems in Line with the EU Artificial Intelligence Act (June 26, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5322807
Floridi, Luciano, A Conjecture on a Fundamental Trade-off between Certainty and Scope in Symbolic and Generative AI (June 11, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5289884
Mazur, Joanna and Novelli, Claudio and Choińska, Zuzanna, Should Data Protection Authorities Enforce the AI Act? Lessons from EU-wide Enforcement Data (June 12, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5290513
Floridi, Luciano, The Epistemological Asymmetry of Good and Evil: Celebration, Closure, and the Design of Memories (May 25, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5268475
Hine, Emmie and Wong, David and Floridi, Luciano, The Impact of Modern Big Tech Antitrust on Digital Sovereignty (May 9, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5248950
Sirbu, Renée and Floridi, Luciano, An Analysis of the Governance, Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of Biocomputing (May 2, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5239551
Floridi, Luciano, Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (April 26, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5232088
Morley, Jessica and Floridi, Luciano, Closing the AI Benefits Gap: Systems Design for Population Health Equity (April 22, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5229016
Floridi, Luciano and Buttaboni, Carlotta and Hine, Emmie and Morley, Jessica and Novelli, Claudio and Schroder, Tyler, Agentic AI Optimisation (AAIO): What it is, How it Works, Why it Matters, and How to Deal With It (April 16, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5220068
Morley, Jessica and Hine, Emmie and Roberts, Huw and Sirbu, Renée and Ashrafian, Hutan and Blease, Charlotte and Boyd, Marisha and Chen, John L. and Chiavegatto Filho, Alexandre Dias Porto and Coiera, Enrico and Cohen, I. Glenn and Fiske, Amelia and Jayakumar, Nandini and Kerasidou, Angeliki and Mandreoli, Federica and McCradden, Melissa D and Namuganza, Stella and Nsoesie, Elaine O. and Parikh, Ravi B. and Reddy, Sandeep and Sedlakova, Jana and Sunbul, Tamara and van Baalen, Sophie and van Kolfschooten, Hannah and Floridi, Luciano, Global Health in the Age of AI: Charting a Course for Ethical Implementation and Societal Benefit (April 1, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5217060
Novelli, Claudio and Gaur, Akriti and Floridi, Luciano, Two Futures of AI Regulation under the Trump Administration (March 31, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5198926
Gillingham, Cara, Morley, Jess and Floridi, Luciano, The Effects of AI on Street-Level Bureaucracy: A Scoping Review (March 28, 2025).
Available at Digital Society: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-025-00178-7
Novelli, Claudio and Argota Sánchez-Vaquerizo, Javier and Helbing, Dirk and Rotolo, Antonino and Floridi, Luciano, Testing Deliberative Democracy Through Digital Twins (March 25, 2025). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5193012
Floridi, Luciano and Buttaboni, Carlotta and Hine, Emmie and Novelli, Claudio and Schroder, Tyler and Shanklin, Grant. Open-Source AI Made in the EU: Why it is a Good Idea (March 24, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5191372
Novelli, Claudio and Argota Sanchez-Vaquerizo, Javier and Helbing, Dirk and Rotolo, Antonino and Floridi, Luciano, A Replica for our Democracies? On Using Digital Twins to Enhance Deliberative Democracy (March 23, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5190735
Hine, Emmie and Cowls, Josh and Floridi, Luciano, Assembly and Expression in Extended Reality: Transposing Human Rights Across Realities (March 18, 2025). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5183490
Schroder, Tyler and Sirbu, Renée and Park, Sohee and Morley, Jessica and Street, Sam and Floridi, Luciano, Cyber Risks to Next-Gen Brain-Computer Interfaces: Analysis and Recommendations (February 05, 2025).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5138265
Formisano, Giuliano and Hine, Emmie and Juneja, Prathm and Laitila, Joel and Novelli, Claudio and Chiu, Ethan and Dejanikus, Elizabeth and Levin, Madeline and Schroder, Tyler and West, Andrew and Floridi, Luciano, Counter-Misinformation Dynamics: The Case of Wikipedia Editing Communities during the 2024 US Presidential Elections (October 17, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4990973
Morley, Jessica and Floridi, Luciano, The Ethics of AI in Health Care: An Updated Mapping Review (October 12, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4987317
Hine, Emmie and Neroni Rezende, Isadora and Roberts, Huw and Wong, David and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Safety and Privacy in Immersive Extended Reality: An Analysis and Policy Recommendations (July 3, 2024). Hine, E., Rezende, I.N., Roberts, H., Wong, D., Taddeo, M., Floridi, L. Safety and Privacy in Immersive Extended Reality: An Analysis and Policy Recommendations.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4585963 and Digital Society: https://doi.org/10.1007/s44206-024-00114-1
Gillingham, Cara and Morley, Jessica and Floridi, Luciano, The Effects of AI on Street-Level Bureaucracy: A Scoping Review (May 9, 2024). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4823175
Karpathakis, Kassandra and Morley, Jessica and Floridi, Luciano, A Justifiable Investment in AI for Healthcare: Aligning Ambition with Reality (April 15, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4795198
Blanchard, Alexander and Novelli, Claudio and Floridi, Luciano and Taddeo, Mariarosaria, A Risk-Based Regulatory Approach to Autonomous Weapon Systems (April 2, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4781751
Novelli, Claudio and Formisano, Giuliano and Juneja, Prathm and Sandri, Giulia and Floridi, Luciano, Artificial Intelligence for the Internal Democracy of Political Parties (March 30, 2024). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper No. Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4778813
Floridi, Luciano and Nobre, Anna C, Anthropomorphising machines and computerising minds: the crosswiring of languages between Artificial Intelligence and Brain & Cognitive Sciences (February 25, 2024). Centre for Digital Ethics (CEDE) Research Paper No. Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4738331
Ziosi, Marta and Watson, David and Floridi, Luciano, A Genealogical Approach to Algorithmic Bias (February 21, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=
Prifti, Kostina and Morley, Jessica and Novelli, Claudio and Floridi, Luciano, Regulation by design: features, practices, limitations, and governance implications (February 13, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4724454
Floridi, Luciano, The Hardware Turn in the Digital Discourse: an Analysis, Explanation, and Potential Risk (February 12, 2024). Philosophy and Technology, 2024.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4723312
Sirbu, Renée and Morley, Jessica and Floridi, Luciano, Artificial intelligence for health insurance: A proposed framework for FDA oversight (January 22, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4702853
Ruiz Reyes, Jorge and Congram, Derek and Sirbu, Renée and Floridi, Luciano, Where are they? A review of statistical techniques and data analysis to support the search for missing persons and the new field of data-based disappearance analysis. (January 21, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4704138
Novelli, Claudio and Casolari, Federico and Hacker, Philipp and Spedicato, Giorgio and Floridi, Luciano, Generative AI in EU Law: Liability, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and Cybersecurity (January 14, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4694565
Ganz, Abra and Camellini, Martina and Hine, Emmie and Novelli, Claudio and Roberts, Huw and Floridi, Luciano, Submarine Cables and the Risks to Digital Sovereignty (January 12, 2024).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4693206
Thomas, Chris and Roberts, Huw and Mökander, Jakob and Tsamados, Andreas and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, The Case for a Broader Approach to AI Assurance: Addressing ‘Hidden’ Harms in the Development of Artificial Intelligence (December 11, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4660737
Floridi, Luciano, On the Brussels-Washington Consensus About the Legal Definition of Artificial Intelligence (December 3, 2023). Philosophy & Technology, 2023
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4652136
Hine, Emmie and Novelli, Claudio and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Supporting Trustworthy AI Through Machine Unlearning (November 24, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4643518
Lou, Katherine and Floridi, Luciano, Online Altruism: What it is and How it Differs from Other Kinds of Altruism (November 1, 2023). Minds and Machines
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4620241
Turillazzi, Aina and Tsamados, Andreas and Genç, Ekin and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Decentralised Finance (DeFi): a critical review of related risks and regulation (October 5, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4593242
Roberts, Huw and Hine, Emmie and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Global AI governance: barriers and pathways forward (September 29, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4588040
Hine, Emmie and Neroni Rezende, Isadora and Roberts, Huw and Wong, David and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Safety and Privacy in Immersive Extended Reality: An Analysis and Policy Recommendations (September 27, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4585963
Casolari, Federico and Buttaboni, Carlotta and Floridi, Luciano, The EU Data Act in Context: A legal assessment (September 26, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4584781
Tsamados, Andreas and Floridi, Luciano and Taddeo, Mariarosaria, The Cybersecurity Crisis of Artificial Intelligence: Unrestrained Adoption and Natural Language-Based Attacks (September 20, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4578165
Floridi, Luciano, On Good and Evil, the Mistaken Idea That Technology is Ever Neutral, and the Importance of the Double-charge Thesis (August 25, 2023). Philosophy & Technology, Septermber 2023.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4551487
Ziosi, Marta and Mökander, Jakob and Novelli, Claudio and Casolari, Federico and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, The EU AI Liability Directive: Shifting the Burden From Proof to Evidence (June 6, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4470725
Floridi, Luciano, Machine Unlearning: Its nature, scope, and importance for a “delete culture” (May 22, 2023). Philosophy & Technology June 2023,
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4455976
Novelli, Claudio and Casolari, Federico and Rotolo, Antonino and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, How to Evaluate the Risks of Artificial Intelligence: A Proportionality-Based, Risk Model for the AI Act (May 31, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4464783
Novelli, Claudio and Casolari, Federico and Rotolo, Antonino and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, AI Risk Assessment: A Scenario-Based, Proportional Methodology for the AI Act (May 31, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4464783
Novelli, Claudio and Casolari, Federico and Rotolo, Antonino and Taddeo, Mariarosaria and Floridi, Luciano, Taking AI Risks Seriously: a New Assessment Model for the AI Act (May 14, 2023). AI & Society, Springer, Vol.38, N. 3, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01723-z
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4447964
Kop, Mauritz and Aboy, Mateo and De Jong, Eline and Gasser, Urs and Minssen, Timo and Cohen, I. Glenn and Brongersma, Mark and Quintel, Teresa and Floridi, Luciano and Laflamme, Ray, 10 Principles for Responsible Quantum Innovation (April 12, 2023).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4475556
Roberts, Huw and Hine, Emmie and Floridi, Luciano, Digital Sovereignty, Digital Expansionism, and the Prospects for Global AI Governance (January 03, 2023). Quo Vadis, Sovereignty?: New Conceptual Boundaries in the Digital Age of China, Forthcoming.
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4483271
Juneja, Prathm and Floridi, Luciano, Using Twitter to Detect Polling Place Issues on U.S. Election Days (December 14, 2022).
Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4334243