Agenda

Schedule & agenda

AI for defence strategies and law enforcement

8:30 – 9:10

Breakfast (offered)

9:10 – 9:20

Welcome speech

9:20 – 9:45

Talk

How AI Transforms Decision-making Processes in Defense Operations

General Jean-Paul Paloméros — President of the steering committee at the French-American Cyber Security Conference, ex-NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation

9:45 – 10:10

Paper

Waging Warfare Against States: The Deployment of AI in Cyber Espionage

Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli — ssistant Professor, School of Law at the University of Bradford

10:10 – 10:35

Paper

The Role of AI in Digital Enforcement Process (e-Enforcement)

Dr Neringa Gaubiené — Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University

10:35 – 11:05

Coffee Break (offered)

11:05 – 11:30

Talk

The Digital Sovereignty Challenges at Play Behind Cloud Computing

Dr Clotilde Bômont — Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School

11:30 – 12:30

Panel

Implementing Ethics Practically into Defense Products

Dr Antoine Bordes — Vice-President AI of Helsing, former co-managing director of the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) laboratory at Meta
Megha Arora — Responsible AI Product Lead at Palantir Technologies
Dr Hubert Etienne — Senior Lecturer of AI Ethics at HEC Paris and CEO at Quintessence AI
Dr Bernhard Krach — Co-Owner Military Technologies Roadmap at Airbus

12:30 – 1:45

Lunch break (offered)

AI to renew democratics

1:45 – 2:10

Talk

What Legitimacy for Private Standard-setting Bodies as Regulators for AI?

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito — Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Tartu and Research Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

2:10 – 2:30

Paper

The Prospects of Digital Democracy

Prof Ivan Mladenovic — Professor of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade

2:30 – 2:50

Paper

From Opportunity to Effective Agency: How AI Reshapes Free Choice in Democratic Societies

Roberta Fischli — Ph.D candidate at the School for Economics and Political Sciences, University of St. Gallen

2:50 – 3:10

Paper

AI to Renew Public Employment Services

Dr Thomas Souverain — PhD candidate at Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL, Institut Jean Nicod

3:10 – 3:40

Coffee break (offered)

3:40 – 4:05

Initiative

Building LLM services for French public administrations

Pierre-Etienne Devineau — Lead AI at the DINUM, French government

4:05 – 4:25

Initiative

Building trustworthy AI through the Responsible Computing Challenge

Dr Ziyaad Bhorat — Associate Director of the Center for Generative AI and Society at the University of Southern California

4:25 – 4:45

Initiative

Integration of Generative AI in Reflective Learning: A Case Study in Hong Kong’s Diverse Tertiary Educational Landscape

Prof Erwin Huang — Associate Director, Program of Technology, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Integrative Systems and Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

4:45 – 5:05

Initiative

Benevolent Actors in the Polycrisis: Collaborative AI Governance for Tomorrow’s Democracies

Lidia Velkova — Managing Director at Clever Together Futureproof

Generative AI and the problem of diversity

8:30 – 9:00

Breakfast (offered)

9:00 – 9:05

Welcome speech

9:05 – 9:30

Talk

The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling Down and Strict Egalitarianism by Default

Prof Chris Russell — Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI, Government, and Policy at the University of Oxford

9:30 – 9:50

Paper

Democratizing Value Alignment: From Authoritarian to Democratic AI Ethics

Prof James K. Wong — Associate Dean of Humanities and Social Science, Assistant Professor of Social Science Education at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

9:50 – 10:00

Paper

Towards Participation as Justice in Generative AI

Dr Tomasz Hollanek — Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Affiliated Lecturer at the Department of Computer Science and Technology, University of Cambridge

10:10 – 10:30

Paper

Unmasking Camouflage: Exploring the Challenges of Large Language Models in Deciphering African American English and Online Performativity

Shana Kleiner — Lab Manager, SAFELab, School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania
Prof Jessi Grieser — Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break (offered)

11:00 – 11:25

Talk

AI Alignment Through EU AI Act: A Pragmatic Tangle of Modern, Post-modern and Non-modern Normative Approaches

Prof Juliette Sénéchal — Professor of Law at the University of Lille and in delegation at nstitut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria)

11:25 – 12:25

Panel

Comparing Industry Approaches to the Ethical Development of Generative AI Models and Products

Dr Renee Shelby — Researcher in the social impacts of technology in the Responsible AI organization at Google Research
Dr Cristian Canton — Head of Engineering for Responsible AI at Meta
Prof Chloé Bakalar — Chief Ethicist at Meta AI and Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Temple University

12:25 – 1:45

Lunch break (offered)

The implication of (super) intelligence

1:45 – 2:10

Talk

Approaching the Future of Human-Computer Interactions

Dr Kate Vredenburgh — Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the London School of Economics

2:10 – 2:30

Paper

Evolving Social-Relational Norms in the Era of Superintelligent AI

Dr Madeline Reinecke — Postdoctoral Researcher in Collective Moral Development at Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Psychiatry Department, University of Oxford

2:30 – 2:50

Paper

Trustworthy AI and the “Conscious CoPilot”: Navigating our Interactions with Artificial Agents

Jesús Salgado — Adjunct Professor and PhD candidate in the Department of Industrial Organization, Business Administration, and Statistics at the Polytechnic University of Madrid

2:50 – 3:10

Paper

Technology, Liberty, and Moral Guardrails

Dr Kevin Mills — Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT

3:10 – 3:30

Talk

From Human-System Interaction to Human-System Co-Action: Ethical Assessment of Generative AI and Mutual Theory of Mind

Dr Florian Richter — Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences

3:30 – 4:00

Coffee break (offered)

4:00 – 4:30

Discussion

A Policymaker’s Perspective on the Pursuit of AGI: (Geo)political Implications and Practical Considerations

Alexander Pascal — Senior Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Professor of Practice at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University

4:30 – 5:30

Debate

The scientific foundations of existential risks

Dr Alexei Grinbaum — Senior Research Scientist at CEA-Saclay, Chair of the CEA Operational Ethics Committee for Digital Technologies and member of the French National Digital Ethics Committee
Dr Haydn Belfield — Research Associate & Project Manager at the Cambridge University’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, Research Fellow at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence

5:30 – 5:35