Agenda

1-2 October 2026

The symposium revisits the traditions of avantgarde poetry that experimented with algorithms to contest the politics of authorship and creativity over the last century. It investigates the disruptive power of poetry and the limits of contemporary AI, exploring the contribution that the humanities bring to a world marked by the rising hegemony of computer science in cultural heritage. The symposium takes as its starting point the remarkable findings of Icaro Lab, which demonstrated the use of poetry to jailbreak the security of AI models. Ultimately, it programmatically reclaims a new role for the critical humanities in AI literacy and STEM disciplines. Critical humanities do not merely comment on AI from the outside but offer practical tools to analyse, test, and put such systems to the proof.

Scientific Committee
Matteo Pasquinelli
Tommaso Guariento
Paolo Caffoni

Organizing Committee
Beatrice Spampinato
Cosimo De Matteis
Elsa Gigliotti

For info: www.unive.it/adversarialpoetry

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