RICCARDO ANGIUS
storitu in su 'entu
Riccardo is a mixed-method doctorand at Trinity College Dublin, with a decade-long experience in interdisciplinary teams investigating social dynamics, overtrust in decision support systems, sociotechnical auditing of predictive and generative stochastic systems, deep learning, LLMs, natural language processing, automated semantic analysis.
They also led industrial software engineering, both for startups and very large publicly traded companies, and are actively involved in facilitating local community organising in Sardinia. Fluent in English, French, Spanish, Italian and Sardinian.
After their investigations into the semantic limits of algorithms, as described by computatibility theory, they still work at the intersection between heteronormativity, colonialism, production and social reproduction systems, to challenge power and seek democratic distribution of the foundational efforts of the global chain of care, as well as its fair compensation.
Their PhD research at the AI Accountability Lab – under the supervision of Dr. Abeba Birhane – focuses on community-owned online platform accountability, corporate capture of AI and technology-facilitated eugenics and necropolitics.
Their joint work with AI Forensics and AlgorithmWatch has been featured by The Washington Post, Wired US, The Verge, SRG SSR, Die Zeit, NOS Nieuwsuur – and many more European outlets – as well as cited by Pulitzer-winning Julia Angwin, digital ethics luminary Luciano Floridi and the Reuters Institute and in formal proceedings of the European Commission.
Affiliation
AI Accountability Lab at Trinity College Dublin
Past:
‣ Modeling Uncertainty, Decisions and Interaction Lab at University of Milano-Bicocca
‣ Machine Learning Group at University of Padova
‣ Semantic Web Lab at University of Cagliari
Selected pieces
La scomparsa del lavoro, l’automazione totale e altre favole
Ti Spiego Il Dato
Misurare i sorrisi
Jacobin Italia
Lavori invisibili a Carloforte nel Novecento
Storie digitali UniCa
Publications
S. Romano, R. Angius, N. Kerby, P. Bouchaud, J. Amidei, A. Kaltenbrunner
A dataset to assess Microsoft Copilot answers in the context of Swiss, Bavarian and Hessian Elections
AAAI ICWSM '24
F. Cabitza, A. Campagner, R. Angius, C. Natali, C. Reverberi
AI Shall Have No Dominion: on How to Measure Technology Dominance in AI-supported Human decision-making
ACM CHI '23, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
A. Campagner, R. Angius, F. Cabitza
A Question of Trust: Old and New Metrics for the Reliable Assessment of Trustworthy AI
HEALTHINF, 16th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies (BIOSTEC 2023)
Conference presentations
Digital Natives. How to orient myself and my children? Raising the citizens of the future in the digital era
Together with Valentina Luigia Sestu
June 21st, 2024, 23rd Congress of the Italian Society for Future Orientation, University of Sassari, Sassari (Sardinia, EU)
A dataset to assess Microsoft Copilot answers in the context of Swiss, Bavarian and Hessian Elections
On behalf of all authors: S. Romano, R. Angius, N. Kerby, P. Bouchaud, J. Amidei, A. Kaltenbrunner
June 4th, 2024, AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media, Jacobs School of Medicine, Buffalo (NY, USA)
Academic refereeing
International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier) since July 2022
Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence since May 2023
Book Editing
Tecnologia della rivoluzione, Progresso e battaglie sociali dal microonde all'intelligenza artificiale (chs. 5 and 6)
Diletta Huyskes, Il Saggiatore, 2024
Riccardo Angius / storitu in su 'entu
paste up, 2.0 x 1.4 mt, CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival official selection
Consultancy
Brave New World: A Craft Utopia
Sergio Marchesini, Raffaella Rivi. D20 Art Lab, Copenhagen Business School, Ca' Foscari University. Venice (Italy), 2024
Dissemination activities
From Descartes to Israel: the algorithms scaling the apartheid
with Daniela Tafani • Università di Pisa, Polo Carmignani, Pisa, May 2025 - Available on Instagram
AI Applications in Medicine and in the Doctor-Patient Relationship
with Gastone Castellani • SISM Bologna, Policlinico S. Orsola, Bologna, June 2024
The care work dictated by the structural errors of AI
with Tech Workers Italia • RitmoLento, Bologna, February 2024
Digital Natives: risks and opportunities of AI for the needs of Gen Z
with Valentina Sestu • Veneto - South Sardinia, February-March 2024
AI and EU grant writing: cognitive overload and reputational risk
with Quality Culture • Designing Europe, Milan, November 2023 - Available on Youtube
Power and Diplomacy in Data Ecosystems: The Cultural Infrastructure Required by Meaningful AI Data Sharing
The Open Data Institute, London (UK), October 2023
To plan together similar dissemination activities, or interviews, please get in touch through one of profiles here.