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When man discovered fire, he was unafraid to confront this novelty and succeeded in mastering it. With that decision to take a risk and manage it, he completely changed his own existence and that of the human race, which moved from the base of the food pyramid to its top, creating extraordinary opportunities for all humanity, improving the quality and length of life. Today we are facing another great innovation. New technologies can undoubtedly pose a risk, but we believe they represent, above all, an opportunity to improve people's living conditions and to enable the development of human, social, and political organizations toward forms perhaps unforeseeable.

For these reasons, by bringing together professors, researchers, and scholars in law and social sciences, and by opening ourselves to those in STEM fields, we founded the algo-freedom society, an open and diverse space for free reflection on new technologies from the perspective of individual rights. We believe that digital innovations and algorithms can help free many people from conditions that prevent them from effectively exercising their rights, if it is true, as the Constitutional Court has recalled, that "human dignity is compromised whenever the legal system itself, by virtue of its prohibition or provision, transforms a person who, by his or her own efforts, would be capable of carrying out a specific activity into a person incapable and in need of assistance."

We believe that, on the one hand, public authorities must regulate new technologies to reduce the risks to humanity resulting from their use. On the other hand, there is a genuine right to innovation that must enhance the use of new technologies to expand the opportunities for all human beings to fulfill themselves and contribute to the spiritual and material development of their communities. Technology can be an instrument of freedom in liberal-democratic constitutional systems.

Based on this approach, we believe that state and European public authorities are required to protect individuals from threats as well as to seize the opportunities posed by the use of artificial intelligence and algorithms in open and free societies that pursue the constitutional rule of law.

To freely discuss all this, we conduct research, hold seminars, and conferences, organize and participate in training activities, and draft reports and scientific publications that we share with the academic network and institutions, as well as with other research groups, associations, and businesses.