Dangerous Liaisons. Potentialities and Risks Deriving from the Interaction between Artificial Intelligence and Preventive Justice

One of the crucial challenges of social and economic development in current times concerns how States will be able take advantage and make an appropriate use of ai and ml systems.1 The EU, inevitably well aware of this, has embarked on a digital agenda that intends to explore all possible employments of ai while respecting the rights of citizens, as the recent establishment by the European Parliament of the special committee on Artificial intelligence in a Digital Age (aida) confirms.2 The ability of ai systems to interact with the most diverse areas of human life has also had an impact on the thinking of legal experts, making