Agenda

Schedule & agenda

Controlling cyber-influence and manipulation strategies

8:30 – 9:15

Breakfast (offered)

9:15 – 9:30

Opening address

  • Dr Thomas Souverain — Postdoctoral fellow at the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission
9:30 – 9:50
Talk

The landscape of information dysfunction: A visitor’s guide

  • Dr Herbert Lin — Chief Scientist, Emeritus at the NRC of the National Academies & Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
9:50 – 10:10
Paper

Digital Curtains Descending? Lessons from TikTok v. Garland for Europe

  • Dr Davide Clementi — Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Palermo and CSDC member at Roma Tre University
10:10 – 10:30
Paper

The Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law

  • Prof Jane Bambauer — Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Law Enforcement & Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida
  • Lila Greenberg — J.D. candidate at the University of Florida
  • Julie Wittenberg — J.D. candidate at the University of Florida
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break (offered)

11:00 – 11:20
Paper

From disinformation dissection to ideological conflation: leveraging semantic embeddings and stochastic processes for detection of behavioral drifts among content-creators

  • Dr Clément Bénesse — Senior AI Researcher at Opsci.ai
11:20 – 11:40
Paper

Who Controls the Narrative? The Dual Role of Contributors and Amplifiers in Online Activism

  • Dr Soo Young Bae — Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
10:40 – 12:15
Panel

Countering foreign influence in the digital age

  • Marc-Antoine Brillant — Director at VIGINUM
  • Dr Hubert Etienne — President at Quintessence AI
12:15 – 2:00

Lunch break (offered)

Countering information manipulation techniques

2:00 – 2:20
Talk

Combating Online Harms: Lessons on the Importance of Rigorous Scientific Testing of Proposed Interventions

  • Prof Joshua Tucker — Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor, Co-director and co-founder of the NYU Center for Social Media and Politics & Professor of politics at New York University
2:20 – 2:40

Misinformation, Influence, and Algorithmic Bias: The Role of High-Status Users in Misinformation Spread

  • Prof David DeFranza — Assistant Professor at University College Dublin
2:40 – 3:00
Paper

Gaming the System: Extremist Strategies in Immersive Virtual Universes

  • Dr Didier Danet — Director of the Specialized Masters & Lecturer at Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan schools
3:00 – 3:20
Paper

A Socioinformatic Analysis of Community-based Fact-Checking: Why Community Notes is not as effective as X claims

  • Julian Pelloth — PhD candidate at the RPTU Kaiserslauten-Landau
  • Lena Pölzer — Master Student at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau
3:20 – 3:50

Coffee Break (offered)

3:50 – 4:10
Paper

The Speech Act Gap and Counterspeech

  • Dr Isaac Taylor — Reader (Docent) at Stockholm University
4:10 – 4:30
Paper

Understanding China’s AI-Generated Content Labelling Mandate: Towards a new mode of Algorithmic Stewardship?

  • Dr Wenlong Li — Lecturer in Law at the Aston University
4:30 – 5:30
Panel

The future of information production at the era of AI and distrust

  • Laura Manley — Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
  • Julia Angwin — Founder of Proof News, Opinion Writer for the New York Times and Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School
  • Brian Friedberg — Senior Researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy & PhD candidate at Harvard University

Exploring the potential of blockchain to renew civic trust

8:30 – 9:00

Breakfast (offered)

9:05 – 9:10

Opening address

  • Prof Sven Nyholm — Professor of the Ethics of AI at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
9:10 – 9:30
Talk

Trust By Decentralization? Where Blockchain Systems meet Responsible AI challenges

  • Prof Aggelos Kiayias — Chief Scientist at IOG and Chair in Cyber Security & director of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh
9:30 – 9:50
Paper

Building Trust and Developing Value between Creative Rightsholders and GenAI through Tokenised Licensing and Content Authenticity Tools

  • Dr Chris Elsden — Chancellor’s Fellow in Service Design in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh
9:50 – 10:10
Paper

From Black Box to Glass Box: Leveraging Blockchain to Audit AI Systems Through Multistakeholder Participation

  • Prof Roberto Caparroz — Professor of Law & Technology at Fundacao Getulio Vargas
10:10 – 10:30
Paper

Bootstrapping Trust in Web3 from Publicly-Verifiable Internet Data

  • Dr Yuan Lu — Associate Professor at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break (offered)

11:00 – 11:20
Talk

Violence and the artificial

  • Dr Alexei Grinbaum — Director of Research and Chairman of the Digital Ethics Steering Committee at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission
11:20 – 11:40
Paper

AI, Digital Democracy, and the crisis of social cohesion: Rebuilding political trust

  • Adrien Tallent — CIFRE PhD candidate at Sorbonne University & SNCF Réseau
11:40 – 12:00
Paper

The Trust Paradox: How Social AI Is Rewiring Human Connection and Social Cohesion

  • Alva Markelius — PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the University of Cambridge
  • Priscila Chaves — AI Innovation & Ecosystem lead at Carhill
12:00 – 12:45
Panel

Addressing the trust crisis in our democracies

  • Prof James K. Wong — Associate Dean of Humanities & Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
  • Dr Yordanka Ivanova — Head of AI Regulation and Compliance at the European AI office
  • Dr Thomas Souverain — Postdoctoral fellow at the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission
12:45 – 2:00

Lunch Break (offered)

Rebuilding social cohesion in AI-powered societies

2:00 – 2:20
Paper

Binary Selves: How the Digital Paradigm and AI Amplify the Identity Trap and Societal Fragmentation

  • Élie Chevignard — PhD candidate at French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission, Paris Saclay University
2:20 – 2:40
Paper

AI as Bureaucratic Decision-Making

  • Dr Carina Prunkl — Assistant Professor for Ethics of Technology at Utrecht University & Senior Fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford
2:40 – 3:00
Talk

Moral Justifications for Fostering Moral Trust in Machines

  • Dr Elizabeth Phillips — Assistant professor at Mason University
3:00 – 3:20
Paper

Who Owns the Words? Copyright, AI Prompts, and the Governance of Digital Authorship

  • Jaqueline Simas Claveland de Oliveira — PhD candidate at Fundação Getulio Vargas
3:20 – 3:50

Coffee break (offered)

3:50 – 4:10
Paper

AI with Heart: A Joy-Centered Framework for Ethical AI Development & Implementation

  • Nick Deas — PhD candidate at Columbia University
  • Shana Kleiner — Manager at the Center for Responsible Innovation & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania
4:10 – 4:30
Initiative

Rebuilding common references: lessons from the field

  • Hugo Besançon — Deputy managing director at SQUARE
4:30 – 5:30
Discussion

AI Governance in an Uncertain World

  • Prof Nate Persily — James B. Mc Clatchy Professor of Law at Stanford University and Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center
  • Dr John Basl — Associate Professor at Northeastern University
5:30 – 5:35

Greetings

  • Dr Hubert Etienne — President at Quintessence AI
5:35 – 7:00

Closing cocktail (offered)

We thank our sponsors

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Organization committee


Organisation team


Dr Hubert Etienne

Quintessence AI

Dr Thomas Souverain

the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission

Juliette Guerard

Sciences Po & HEC Paris

Scientific committee


Dr Hubert Etienne

Quintessence AI

Prof Brent Mittelstadt

the University of Oxford

Dr John Basl

Northeastern University

Dr Geoffrey Keeling

Google

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

University of Tartu & European University Institute

Prof James K. Wong

the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof Sven Nyholm

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Dr Thomas Souverain

the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission

Dr Giada Pistilli

Hugging Face

Dr Claire Benn

the University of Cambridge

Thematic chairs


Prof Joshua Tucker

New York University

Dr Alexei Grinbaum

the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

Prof Aggelos Kiayias

the University of Edinburgh

Dr Herbert Lin

Stanford University
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