Alessandro Facchini










    I am a SUPSI Associate Professor in Epistemology, Logic and Ethics of AI, working since 2015 at the Swiss AI Lab [IDSIA (USI-SUPSI)], where I am co-leading the [Responsible AI & Society] research area. In addition, I am the institutional coordinator and PI for SUPSI within the European University Alliance [EUonAIR], focused on Responsible AI and Education, as well as the co-cordinator of the SUPSI transdisciplinary strategic research area Responsible Adoption, Ethics and Literacy of AI for Society [RELAIS].

    Before that, I was Assistant Professor at the [Informatics Institute ] of the University of Warsaw, where I was leading a  [Homing Plus project on fixpoint logics]. Even before, I was a Visiting Researcher at the [ Computer Science Department] of the UCSC, and later a Post-Doc at the [Information and Language Processing Systems group] of the University of Amsterdam.

    From January 2025 until August 2026 I was the co-coordinator of the SUPSI BSc in Data Science and AI.

    I finished my PhD in 2010, under the co-supervision of [Jacques Duparc] (U. Lausanne) and [Igor Walukiewicz] (LaBRI - U. Bordeaux 2). Before that, in 2006 I completed a two years Doctoral Program in Logic and Foundations of Mathematics at the University of Barcelona.






    Some latest works:

    • (w/ Alberto Termine and Emanuele Ratti) "Explainable AI models as mediators" (under review)  [pdf].
    • (w/ A. Benavoli  and M. Zaffalon) "Why AI safety requires uncertainty, incomplete preferences, and non-archimedean utilities".  (under review)  [pdf].
    • "Mediational Opacity: How AI reshapes our epistemic environment and how to audit it".   Accepted at the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26). Extended version available at SSRN :  [pdf].
    • (w/ Elisa Rubegni et al.) "From oracles to productive friction: designing for meaningful human oversight in clinical AI". Accepted at the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26). Extended version available on Zenodo :  [pdf].
    • (w/ Andrea Ferrario and Juan Duran) " Epistemology gives a future to complementarity in human-AI interactions" Accepted at the 9th AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-26). Extended version available on arxiv :  [pdf].
    • (w/ Andrea Ferrario,  Rasita Vinay, and Matteo Casserini) "A scoping revie of the ethical perspective on anthropomorphising large language mode-based conversational agents". 2026 ACm Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAccT' 26)  [pdf].
    • (w/ Alberto Termine and Emanuele Ratti) "Machine learning and theory-ladenness: a phenomenological account" Synthese 207 (2026)  [pdf].
    • (w/ Andrea Ferrario  and Matteo Casserini) "Beyond the 'Driff': Addrressing agentic entropy in agentic software development" Proceedings of CHI 2026 Workshop on Human-Centered Explainable AI (HCXAI)  [pdf].
    • (w/ G. Starke, F. Gille, ..., M. Ienca ) "Finding Consensus on Trust in AI in Health Care: Recommendations From a Panel of International Experts".  Journal of medical Internet research  27, e56306 (2025) [open access].
    • (w/ A. Ferrario and  A. Termine ) "Social Misattribution in conversations with large language models".  Proceedings of the 2025 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES-25). Extended version available at SSRN [pdf].
    • (w/ A. Ferrario and  A. Termine ) "Experts or Authorities? The Strange Case of the Presumed Epistemic Superiority of Artificial Intelligence Systems".  Mind and Machines  34, 30 (2024) [open access].