AI is very quickly finding its way across industries and activities. While calls to regulate it continue to be at the forefront of the public debate across the globe we explore how AI tools can be used to manage complex events such as disasters. However, as the recent events in Morocco and Lybia demonstrate, a …

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It was March 11th, 2011 when an earthquake followed by a powerful tsunami hit the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on the coast of Japan. An accident classified as “catastrophic” on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale, on par with Černobyl. One of the best ways to learn about crisis management is to study someone …

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“Wait for catastrophe” is the catchy title of this AI Axios newsletter worth reading. Except it might already be too late. Global regulation of AI is becoming imperative. The AI industry is not calling for it, it is shouting for it. AI founders seem to have caught up to the intrinsic dangers of the technology …

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Reading recent articles and using AI tools has led me to reflect on the need to formulate my own editorial policy. And be fully transparent with my readers. In the closing paragraph of a recent article on AI published by The Economist, Noel Harari wrote «We have just encountered an alien intelligence, here on Earth. We …

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There has been extensive talk recently about systemic crises and polycrises and I have written a few posts on the topic (mostly in Italian). Separately I have also taken an interest in AI trying to get my head around the concept. Among the first to register on Chat GPT I never took the time to …

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I am particularly proud to have joined “pro bono” a working group set up by ENAC – Ente Nazionale per l’Aviazione Civile (National Civil Aviation Authority), tasked with drawing up new Family Assistance regulations for Italy. For several months, I had the pleasure of working with ENAC managers and executives and with representatives of the …

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The Financial Times Weekend edition remains, at least for me, a thought-provoking tool. This weekend two interesting articles by Simon Kuper and John Thornhill both dealing in different ways with crisis. An unimanigable world and the importance of “pre-mortems”. Technology as a crisis creator and solver In his article titled “Today’s polycrisis might just bring …

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If you are interested in crisis management, historical parallelism, the fallout of the Russia-Ukraine war, and what is currently happening in the global economy this is a must-read article. Keeping in mind crises are never the same the article offers some valuable reflections on «pervasive uncertainty». I particularly liked Martin Wolf’s characterization of what he experienced …

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Can parallel thinking bring value to the crisis management decision-making process? It’s a question I asked myself after reading Tim Harford’s article published by the FT. “If at first you don’t succeed, goes the old saying, try, try again. Good advice, up to a point. But let me offer a modification: even when you do …

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