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Alessandro Perilli
Alessandro
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AI R&D
AP Workflows for ComfyUI
A series of free automation solutions for creative studios and large firms to generate images and videos with FLUX and Stable Diffusion at scale.
AP Workflow for ComfyUI
Over 50K downloads!
The State of DeepFake
A series of videos to demonstrate the state of the art of deepfake technologies.
AP Matrix Deepfake
Fake Show
A synthetic podcast featuring the most realistic synthetic voices today's AI models can generate.
Fake Show
AI Adoption Tracker
A database documenting 200+ early AI adopters across industries and geographies, and 150+ unique use cases.
Synthetic Work AI Adoption Tracker
Media
Tech From the Future
A YouTube channel where Alessandro shows what AI can really do.
Tech From the Future
Synthetic Work
A weekly newsletter to understand how AI is reshaping jobs and careers, workforce productivity, and business operations.
Synthetic Work
Content
AI for Art
A series of works Alessandro produced as a pioneer of generative AI for art.
Artificial Intelligence for Art
The Brain
A collection of the most interesting passages and charts Alessandro finds in books and articles on a daily basis.
The Brain
Thoughts
A tiny place where Alessandro shares ideas.
Thoughts
Startups Worth Watching
A tracker of startups with enormous potential, curated by Alessandro.
Startups Worth Watching

Bio
Alessandro is the CEO and Chief of Research at Unstable Reality, a boutique R&D lab focused on artificial intelligence.

Alessandro is a contrarian thinker with 25 years of business and product experience in the enterprise IT industry, and a track record in identifying hugely profitable markets and new use cases for emerging technologies ahead of time.

Alessandro also has a track record in identifying over-hyped emerging technologies that eventually have little to no business impact.
Things Alessandro has done in the past:

  • Tech executive, focused on business and product strategy for Red Hat
  • Global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
  • Entrepreneur in the media industry as the founder of virtualization.info
  • Advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies
  • Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment⭑ for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
  • Author of a cybersecurity book⭑ for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
  • Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica
Alessandro also is:

  • A public speaker with over two decades of experience on stage delivering almost 500 keynotes
  • An inventor⭑
  • An art collector and a former corporate sponsor⭑ for Tate

Alessandro Is
an Expert In
Artificial Intelligence
Automation & Orchestration
Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity
Enterprise IT Management
Open Source
Synthetic Media & Disinformation
Virtualization
Alessandro Is
Passioned About
Art
Augmented Reality
Autonomous Vehicles
Behavioral Economics
Cognitive Psychology
Genetic Engineering
Human Body Enhancement
Industrial Design
Interior Design
Mass Surveillance
Neuroscience
Philosophy
Self-Publishing
UI & UX Design
Wearable Computing
Alessandro
Built
Project Wisdom
The first application of generative AI to automation in the IT industry: a large language model used to generate Ansible automation workflows (now called Ansible Lightspeed).
Ansible Security Automation
An open source-based solution to integrate and orchestrate 3rd party cybersecurity solutions through Ansible.
virtualization.info
From 2003 to 2010, the most authoritative online publication about virtualization worldwide, counting 7 million visitors per year.
Alessandro Invented
US Patent 10778701
Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools.
Alessandro's
Essays
  • Amazon has won enterprise IT management
  • Open Source for Business People
  • Analyst Relations Worst Practices
  • NoOps: Misguided Hopes, New Ideas, And Three Paths Towards An Attainable Future
  • A killer app for the VR of the future: life tourism
Alessandro's
Podcasts
Reality Distortion Fields - Podcast Cover

In the Press
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The MIT mentions Alessandro as a subject matter expert in artificial intelligence in a new research paper:
Why They’re Worried
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Milano Finanza interviews Alessandro about the Future of Life Institute (FLI) open letter he signed:
ChatGPT, l’intelligenza artificiale è davvero una minaccia o rimane un affare miliardario?
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Financial Times quotes Alessandro about the impact of automation on human labor:
How cloud automation is changing IT: repair, replicate and correct
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Time Out quotes Alessandro about censoring creative work produced with generative AI:
"I thought people would understand what I was trying to do": The story behind the film too controversial for London's cinemas
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