The International School on AI, Technology and Law in Erice brings together international experts to examine the scientific, legal, economic, and social impacts of artificial intelligence.

The program addresses governance, cybersecurity, public administration, healthcare, finance, and ethics, promoting an interdisciplinary vision grounded in scientific rigor and institutional responsibility.

Artificial intelligence is emerging as a disruptive technology capable of reshaping the economy, security, geopolitics, and social models, requiring new shared global regulatory and operational strategies.

In Erice, ethics is interpreted as ‘coopetition,’ while Quantum AI represents the next technological frontier, destined to transform computational capabilities and advanced applications.

Bringing together all fields of knowledge, both scientific and humanistic, aims at the application of AI systems that allow in-depth learning of an infinite amount of data – Deep Learning – and the creation of neural networks – Neural Networks – that approximate human ones as closely as possible, facilitating every action.

CSAIA involves in its Scientific Committee members from numerous universities, entrepreneurs conducting research across all fields of knowledge, and public and private research institutions to provide educational training, courses, and master’s programs, and to implement programs – Machine Learning, Robotics, Natural Language Processing (NLP) – aimed at applying AI for the benefit of the community in a wide range of sectors.

CSAIA aligns us with a future that has already arrived, beyond rhetoric, and aims to unite the scientific dimension with the cultural one, as well as the academic component with the industrial and professional sectors.

01. Artificial intelligence will permeate our social life

02. It is a very delicate anthropological leap

03. It is a philosophical matter

04. It involves all areas of human knowledge: jurisprudence, philosophy, arts, labor law, medicine, engineering, physics, mathematics, cybersecurity

Support us in promoting ethical, responsible artificial intelligence that serves society!

How to Donate Your 5x1000 to CSAIA

Making a 5×1000 donation is simple and quick:

Locate the section “Choose where to allocate your 5×1000” in your tax return form (Income Tax Return, Form 730, or CU).
Sign in the box dedicated to “Support for Third Sector entities registered in the RUNTS”.
Enter CSAIA’s tax code in the field “Tax code of the beneficiary”: 96587030584.

CSAIA CAMPUS was established as a permanent platform for scientific and cultural collaboration. Through a digital library connected to the association’s departments, it provides qualified access to verified content and high-level academic resources, promoting continuous learning, interdisciplinary education, and the dissemination of reliable knowledge on the global transformations driven by artificial intelligence.

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGY & LAW

«ETTORE MAJORANA FOUNDATION AND CENTRE
FOR SCIENTIFIC CULTURE ETS»

2nd Course: AI Technology and Law
Directors:
A. LEHMANN – P.P.M. MENCHETTI

ERICE-SICILY, 1 – 6 September 2026

In view of the extraordinary spread of AI developments and innovative applications in recent years, and their profound influence on private, entrepreneurial, and public life, the aim of the school is to offer young researchers the opportunity to understand the significance of technological innovations in the field of artificial intelligence.

The courses will illustrate technological benefits and risks across various application areas, also analyzing the state of the art regarding social behavior, ethical and legal rules, and additional regulatory requirements. Participants will have a unique opportunity to learn from and engage with internationally renowned experts.

ENCYCLICAL LETTER

MAGNIFICA HUMANITAS

POPE LEO XIV ON SAFEGUARDING THE HUMAN PERSON IN THE TIME OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

“La technology is not an “antagonistic force against the human person”, nor “evil in itself”. It is not neutral, because it takes on the face of those who conceive it, fund it, regulate it, and use it.”

Building for good. Remaining human.

On May 15, 2026, the 135th anniversary of Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, through which the social doctrine of the Church was founded, Pope Leo XIV signed his first encyclical,
“Magnifica humanitas on the “protection of the human
person in the age of Artificial Intelligence”.
An appeal to safeguard “a magnificent humanity inhabited by God,” promoting truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace.

The Word of Humanity and AI

Carlo Pizzichini

The stained glass windows

Scorri verso il basso

of the Word

for the mullioned window to the left of the high altar of the

Basilica of San Domenico in Siena

AI-TUTOR

THE DOUBLE-VALIDATION MODEL FOR CONVERSATIONS AND ADVANCED TEACHING

The AI Tutor aims to study and measure, through conversational methods, that branch of human knowledge which artificial intelligence represents, shaping understanding with authoritative, original, and reliable content.

And who would wish to put an end to human intellects? Who would claim to have already seen and known everything that exists in the world of the sensible and of knowledge?