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Maurizio Ferraris, filósofo: “La IA es el espejo de lo que somos y de lo que aspiramos a ser”
Maurizio Ferraris’s idea of Webfare focuses on transforming the value generated by collective data into a resource for public well-being, rather than leaving its benefits in the hands of major corporations. He suggests that large-scale datasets can be converted into economic capital and used to tackle social issues, including the sustainability of welfare and pension systems. Ferraris calls for policymakers to recognize data as a shared societal asset, while rejecting…
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Per un comunismo digitale
Ferraris proposes digital communism as a European alternative to US platform capitalism and Chinese digital authoritarianism. Data generated through everyday consumption should become collectively owned and voluntarily shared through European platforms, with profits redistributed according to need. This model aims to strengthen equality, privacy, digital sovereignty, and collective ownership.
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Un materialismo all’altezza della realtà dematerializzata
Ferraris argues that digital capitalism extracts value from everyday life through the continuous production of data. Platforms capture this “documedial surplus value,” although users generate it. His proposal for digital communism seeks to reclaim and redistribute this wealth, shifting the focus from traditional labour toward human needs, life, equity, solidarity, and mutualism.
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Reseña: «El Manifiesto del Webfare» de Maurizio Ferraris
In The Webfare Manifesto (2024), Maurizio Ferraris argues that everyday activities generate valuable data that should be treated as a common, renewable form of wealth. He proposes Webfare as a digital welfare model based on need, data protection, civic interpretation, and redistribution, challenging the concentration of value by digital platforms.
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MURENA, a MUlti-Agent LLM pipeline for large-scale Real Estate maNAgement
MURENA is a multi-agent AI platform that accelerates the screening of large public building portfolios for energy, spatial, technical, and regulatory constraints. It combines LLM-based semantic reasoning with SQL and geospatial engines, while keeping experts in control of final decisions. Tested on 90,000 Italian buildings, MURENA achieved 90.3% routing accuracy and 90% top-5 retrieval accuracy, reducing screening times from weeks to minutes and supporting building decarbonisation under EPBD IV.
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Quattro proposte per il Webfare
The data generated through everyday activities has become the new raw material of the digital economy, yet much of the value created from this resource remains concentrated among a limited number of actors. The concept of Webfare proposes a new digital welfare model aimed at returning part of this value to society and redefining the relationship between citizens, technology, and institutions. This vision is built on four key pillars: strengthening…
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Realism and Webfare
“In June 2011, in Naples, at the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici, I met a young German colleague, Markus Gabriel, who was planning an international conference on the fundamental character of contemporary philosophy. Markus asked me what, in my opinion, would be an appropriate title for the conference, and I replied: New Realism.”
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TURIN Meets ECNU 2nd Edition. Sustainability, Webfare, and the Digital Age: A European-Chinese Dialogue
On July 8 and 9, the Scienza Nuova Institute at the University of Turin will host the second edition of TURIN Meets ECNU – Sustainability, Webfare, and the Digital Age: A European-Chinese Dialogue, an initiative aimed at promoting scientific dialogue between the University of Turin and East China Normal University (ECNU) on the topics of sustainability, digital transformation, and Webfare.
