The first conference of the ‘Associazione italiana di Diritto romano’ took place at the University of Rome (‘La Sapienza’) on the 30th and the 31th of May 2024, attended by professors and researchers in Roman law to discuss the topic «Personae e res. Dal Diritto romano al futuro». The purpose of the initiative was to celebrate the recent founding of the association and to discuss the possibility of reconsidering these Roman categories and of extending the concept of legal personality to emerging phenomena such as the use of artificial intelligence.