My name is Matteo Flora. I’m a serial entrepreneur, university contract professor, and a keynote panelist and public speaker. I work on changing people’s behavior using data.
You can find information about me on my personal website, including links to all my social media. Meanwhile, here I’ve been collecting my scattered thoughts for over two decades.
Happy reading.
In 2024 an airline tried to convince a judge that its chatbot was answerable for its own mistakes, and today the same move risks coming back in far more moving clothes: the machine that suffers, that...
A Microsoft executive, in writing, in a court document unsealed on 17 September 2026, describes the way the AI industry gathered its training data as “the largest theft of labor in human history”...
nclusiveness as a practical objective is satiable: it can be measured, achieved and declared complete. Status within a moral movement, by contrast, is a positional good, because what counts is not...
Anthropic pays $1.5bn for pirated training books, then accuses three Chinese labs of "stealing" Claude. Same act, opposite name. Who decides what is theft?
A new study published in Science demonstrates that artificial intelligence consistently tells us we're right, even when we're wrong. And the problem isn't that it does so: it's that we absolutely...
The tragic death of a teenager, who allegedly planned his suicide with the help of ChatGPT, is not an anomaly but a symptom of a systemic problem.
The risk is not that AI will become sentient, but that it will become an indispensable emotional infrastructure, a substitute for human relationships that we no longer know how to build or maintain...
A trivial jeans advertisement featuring Sydney Sweeney triggers disproportionate accusations of eugenics, revealing an inconvenient truth. This case is not an isolated incident, but a symptom of...
DEI’s collapse shows ideals need social negotiation, not moral righteousness, to shape real collective perception.
The debate on how to legally frame DeepFake is now at the centre of attention of governments, institutions and businesses. This essay explores the possibility that these technologies cannot be...
My name is Matteo Flora. I am a serial entrepreneur, a university lecturer, and a keynote panelist and communicator. I specialise in changing people's behaviour by leveraging data.
You can find more information about me and my contact details on my personal website, including links to all my social channels. Here, I have been sharing my scattered thoughts for over two decades.
Enjoy your reading!