Agenda

2024 Edition

Schedule & agenda

A representation of the event planning of TPC 2024

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 French American Cyber Security Conference
9:45 - 10:10
Paper | Waging Warfare Against States: The Deployment of AI in Cyber Espionage
Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli : Assistant Professor 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 at Helsing and Ex-Managing Director at Facebook AI Research
Megha Arora : Responsible Al Product Lead at Palantir Technologies
Dr Hubert Etienne : Senior Lecturer of AI Ethics at HEC Paris and CEO at Quintessence AI
Dr Bernhard Krach : Airbus Co-Owner Military Technologies Roadmap
12:30 - 1:45
Lunch break (offered)
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 University of Tartu and Research Fellow at 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 : Postdoctoral fellow at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy
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 : Associated 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
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, & 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 & Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science & 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, 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 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 at Google
Dr Cristian Canton : Head of Engineering for Responsible AI, at Meta
Prof Chloé Bakalar : Chief Ethicist at Meta and Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Temple University
12:25 - 1:45
Lunch break (offered)
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 Ph.D candidate at 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
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 and 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 : Director of Research and Chairman of the Digital Ethics Steering Committee at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
Dr Haydn Belfield : Research Associate & Project Manager at the Cambridge University's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and 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

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 Geoff Keeling

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

University of Tartu & 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

Meta & Temple University
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