Riccardo Angius / storitu in su 'entu
paste up, 2.0 x 1.4 mt, CHEAP Street Poster Art Festival official selection
Riccardo Angius (they/them) Mixed-method PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin, with over a decade of 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.
Their joint work with AI Forensics and AlgorithmWatch has been featured by international outlets, cited by Pulitzer-winning Julia Angwin, digital ethics luminary Luciano Floridi, the Reuters Institute, and in formal proceedings of both the European Commission and the US Congress.
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, their interests center the intersection between heteronormativity, colonialism, production and social reproduction systems, to challenge power and seek democratic distribution and fair compensation of the foundational efforts of the global chain of care.
Their PhD research at the AI Accountability Lab – under the supervision of Dr. Abeba Birhane – focuses on authoritarianism, technology-facilitated necropolitics, and the capture of the public interest by Big AI companies, online platforms and search engines.
Simplifying the 'AI Act'? That’s Brussels saying 'Yes' to Big Tech to water down regulation
EUobserver
Mapping how 'Big AI' influences AI laws and oversight
Phys.org
AI chatbot got election info wrong 30 percent of time, European study finds
The Washington Post
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies
Wired US
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
A. Birhane, R. Angius, W. Agnew, H.J. Pandit, B. Mitra, R. Dobbe, Z. Talat
Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity
ACM FAccT '26, ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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, International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media
with Valentina Luigia Sestu
Digital Natives. How to orient myself and my children? Raising the citizens of the future in the digital era
June 21st, 2024, 23rd Congress of the Italian Society for Future Orientation
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, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Brave New World: A Craft Utopia
Sergio Marchesini, Raffaella Rivi. D20 Art Lab, Copenhagen Business School, Ca' Foscari University. Venice (Italy), 2024
Book editing
Tecnologia della rivoluzione, Progresso e battaglie sociali dal microonde all'intelligenza artificiale
Diletta Huyskes, Il Saggiatore, 2024
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
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SCRIPTed Journal, University of Edinburgh Autumn 2026
Conference on eXplainable Artificial Intelligence May 2023
International Journal of Medical Informatics (Elsevier) since July 2022
PhD researcher
AI Accountability Lab
School of Computer Science and Statistics
Trinity College Dublin,The University of Dublin
Ireland active
Past
‣ AI Forensics Paris (France)
‣ Modeling Uncertainty, Decisions and Interaction Lab University of Milano-Bicocca (Italy)
‣ Machine Learning Group University of Padova (Italy)
‣ Semantic Web Lab University of Cagliari (Italy)