Objective
Cosmi Algoritmici is a digital-humanistic project that aims at creating an explainable digital mind for cultural heritage, turning passive consultation into a space of dialogue and discovery. Instead of merely scanning pages, we use Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR&R - a central AI field) to encode concepts, arguments, and normative commitments, enabling the system to reason and, crucially, show its reasoning.
Our testbed is the complex corpus of Giordano Bruno. Delivering a faithful “Digital Mentor Bruno” offers new ways to engage with a major thinker and proves our method's ability to handle ambiguity and dissent. This demonstrates how formal, explainable reasoning can make complex philosophical traditions accessible to the public.
The project’s core is a neuro-symbolic design: a conversational AI layer ensures natural interaction, while a symbolic KR&R core provides the rules of thought. This model forms beliefs, weighs objections, and justifies its conclusions. Each answer is auditable, with a human-readable trail of premises, rules, and sources, allowing users to see why a conclusion holds. The system also manages uncertainty by distinguishing knowledge from belief and flagging when sources diverge.
The Digital Mentor is embedded in a rich, inclusive ecosystem that includes a mobile app, a geo-mapped atlas of Bruno’s travels, and an educational video game. It includes the digitization of yet-undigitized works. A remote debate format allows students to reconstruct Bruno's trial, aligning with the EU Digital Education Action Plan.
Designed to be multilingual and culturally open, the ecosystem fosters co-creation. A dedicated task force of sociologists and psychologists will monitor digital well-being and assess cultural impacts in collaboration with schools, libraries, and cultural institutions, helping to position Europe as a leader in the trusted virtualization of cultural heritage.
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Programme(s)
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HORIZON.2.2 - Culture, creativity and inclusive society
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HORIZON.2.2.2 - Cultural Heritage
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HORIZON-RIA - HORIZON Research and Innovation Actions
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-CL2-2025-01
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80138 Napoli
Italy
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