Stefano Faraoni
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

Stefano Faraoni graduated with honours from the Faculty of Law, University of Turin, and has been a practising lawyer (Avvocato) registered with the Turin Bar since 2006. He practised in civil and criminal law and later specialised in international contract law. He is a Turin Bar Commission on Artificial Intelligence member. Since 2018, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Turin, Italy. Willing to pursue an academic career, in 2021, he started a PhD at the University of York on how contract law should regulate Manipulative Persuasive Technology led by an Artificial Intelligence system. He is currently researching the legal aspects connected to the use of Digital Twins.

Research

Overview

My research delves into Artificial Intelligence, its possible regulation and its impact on existing legal categories, at the national, EU and international level. I am particularly interested in the use of Persuasive Technology and of Digital Twins, and their impact in fields such as contract law and fundamental rights.

Publications

Selected publications

Faraoni, S. (2023) ‘Persuasive Technology and Computational Manipulation: Hypernudging out of mental self-determination’. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 6.

Faraoni, S. (2023) ‘Why Generative AI is not Cyrano De Bergerac’, RAILS, Robotics & AI Law Society, 8 October, https://blog.ai-laws.org/why-generative-ai-is-not-cyrano-de-bergerac.

Gorla, S., Avv Barbujani, E., Avv. Guarino, A., Avv. Faraoni, S., Dr. Bernardi, A., Avv. Iaselli, M., Prof Troiano, L. (2022) “Algoretica, Algocrazia, Intelligenza Artificiale e Tecnologia Persuasiva. Le conseguenze legali della persuasione computazionale” in Intelligenza Artificiale Un approccio Olistico, Interdisciplinare e di Governance (Independelty published, Turin, Italy).

Faraoni, S., (2019) Public Speaking. L’arte di attirare l’attenzione, Hoepli, Milano, Italy.