
Simone Natale
Associate Professor in Media Theory and History, Department of Humanities, University of Turin
Simone Natale is Associate Professor in Media Theory and History at the University of Turin, Italy, and an Editor of the journal Media, Culture & Society. Before returning to work in Italy in 2020, he has lectured and researched at institutions including Columbia University, US, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, Humboldt University and the University of Cologne in Germany, and Loughborough University in the UK. He is the author of numerous publications including his monograph Deceitful Media: Artificial Intelligence and Social Life after the Turing Test (Oxford University Press, 2021), which has been translated into Chinese, Italian, and Portuguese, and over 40 peer-reviewed research articles in journals such as New Media and Society, Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, Information, Communication & Society, and Convergence. He has been awarded research grants by institutions including the AHRCand the ESRC in the UK, the Humboldt Foundation in Germany, and the Ministry of University and Research in Italy, and has worked as expert on AI for leading international institutions and projects such as the Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the Brookings Institution’s Global Task Force on AI in Education.