{"id":151247,"date":"2026-03-23T11:34:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bbs.unibo.it\/?p=151247"},"modified":"2026-03-23T11:34:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T10:34:40","slug":"ai-ethics-and-business-marcello-violini-of-tetiai-meets-professional-master-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bbs.unibo.it\/en\/ai-ethics-and-business-marcello-violini-of-tetiai-meets-professional-master-students\/","title":{"rendered":"AI, ethics and business: Marcello Violini of TetiAI meets Professional Master students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A new appointment in the series of meetings dedicated to Professional Master students of Bologna Business School brought into the classroom an open conversation on <\/span><b>artificial intelligence<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><b>ethics<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>business models<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, together with Marcello Violini, founder, with Lorenzo Nargiso, of <\/span><b>Teyuto and TetiAI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marcello Violini opened with a reflection: when used without awareness, <\/span><b>artificial intelligence <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">risks weakening rather than empowering those who rely on it. An opening that immediately touched on one of the key themes of the discussion: how can we coexist with these tools without delegating to them what makes human thinking uniquely human?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Violini and Nargiso come from <\/span><b>Teyuto<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a video platform active in more than fifty countries and recognized by the European Commission. With <\/span><b>TetiAI<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a startup founded in 2025 with operations between Europe and the United States, they shifted focus, bringing to the AI landscape a positioning that deliberately moves <\/span><b>against the current<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of major global players.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the center of the meeting was <\/span><b>Teti<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a digital assistant with <\/span><b>persistent memory<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, designed to retain preferences, projects and conversations over time, building a continuous relationship with the user rather than resetting context at each session. Alongside its technical dimension, TetiAI has defined a clear commitment: a public <\/span><b>Ethical Charter<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an independent Ethics Committee with veto power, no military or surveillance use, and <\/span><b>zero data tracking<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The proprietary Teti N1 model is built on a fusion of open-source models\u2014a choice that, in the co-founder\u2019s words, is not a commercial strategy but a necessary condition to ensure the system\u2019s <\/span><b>transparency<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>verifiability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The discussion with the class covered several topics: the <\/span><b>business model<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of a company that renounces data monetization, the boundary between radical privacy and the need to train models, the <\/span><b>energy sustainability<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of AI infrastructures, and the implications of a concept of \u201cethics\u201d that changes across cultural contexts. Violini addressed these issues openly, including existing contradictions: TetiAI guarantees that user data is not used to train its own model, but cannot guarantee the prior history of third-party <\/span><b>foundation models<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> it builds upon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before closing, a final note on <\/span><b>entrepreneurship<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: money, Violini said, is the last problem for those building a startup. The real challenge is to build something <\/span><b>necessary<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 and to have the patience to stay with it long enough.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new appointment in the series of meetings dedicated to Professional Master students of Bologna Business School brought into the classroom an open conversation on artificial intelligence, ethics and business models, together with Marcello Violini, founder, with Lorenzo Nargiso, of Teyuto and TetiAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,92],"tags":[],"rubrica":[],"class_list":["post-151247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-en-2","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.5 - 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