Registration

Agenda

2024 Edition

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
Greetings
5:35 - 7:00
Closing cocktail (offered)

We thank our sponsors

Gold

Silver

Organization committee


Organisation team


Dr Hubert Etienne

HEC Paris & Quintessence AI

Patrick Marre

ESCP Europe

Scientific committee


Dr Hubert Etienne

HEC Paris & Quintessence AI

Prof Brent Mittelstadt

University of Oxford

Dr John Basl

Northeastern University

Dr Geoffrey Keeling

Google

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

the University of Tartu and Research Fellow at the Florence School of Transnational Governance, European University Institute

Dr Giada Pistilli

Hugging Face

Dr Jeff Behrends

Harvard University

Prof Rob Reich

Stanford University

Prof Marc-Antoine Dilhac

University of Montréal & Algora Lab (Mila)

Prof Dominique Lestel

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris 

Prof Chloé Bakalar

Temple University
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