Agenda

2025 Edition

Schedule & agenda

Controlling cyber-influence and manipulation strategies
8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast (offered)
9:05 - 9:10
Opening address
Dr Thomas Souverain : Postdoctoral fellow at the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission
9:10 - 9:30
Talk | The landscape of information dysfunction: A visitor’s guide
Dr Herbert Lin : Chief Scientist, Emeritus at the National Research Council of the National Academies & Hank J. Holland Fellow in Cyber Policy and Security at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
9:30 - 9:50
Paper | The Future of Cyber Capabilities: Emerging Techniques for Digital Influence and Manipulation
Pranjal Saraswat : Chief Scientist, Emeritus at the National Research Council 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 | 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
10:10 - 10:30
Paper | Digital Curtains Descending? Lessons from TikTok v. Garland for Europe
Davide Clementi : Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Palermo and CSDC member at Roma Tre University
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 at Opsci.ai
11:20 - 11:40
Paper | Guarding the Guardians: A Governance Framework to Detect and Prevent Explainability Manipulation in XAI Systems
Dr Sahaj Vaidya : AI Policy Researcher at the CivicDataLab
11:40 - 12:00
Paper | Who Controls the Narrative? The Dual Role of Contributors and Amplifiers in Online Activism
Prof Soo Young Bae : Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst
12:00 - 12:45
Panel | Countering foreign influence at the digital age
Anne Neuberger [TBC] : Ex-Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology at the White House & Chief Risk Officer at the National Security Agency
General Olivier Bonnet de Paillerets [TBC] : EVP at Orange Cyberdefense, Ex-cyberdefence commander, Ex-Deputy director at at the Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE)
12:45 - 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 : Co-director 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
Discussion | The future of information production at the ear of AI and distrust
Laura Manley : Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School
Julia Angwin : Founder of Proof News, Opinion Writer for the New York Times and Walter Shorenstein Media and Democracy Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at 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
8:00 - 9:00
Breakfast (offered)
9:05 - 9:10
Opening address
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
Prof Yuan Lu : Professor at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee Break (offered)
11:00 - 11:20
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
11:20 - 11:40
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
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
Joahna Kuiper : Responsible AI & Emerging Technology Researcher and Consultant with experience at HiirAI, Salesforce, and IBM
Priscila Chaves : AI Governance Consultant and Climate Researcher (independent). Innovation and Ecosystems Leader at Cargill. NYU MBA and University of Cambridge MSt
Sarah Spencer : AI Researcher and Consultant, Project Lead at SAFE AI , EthicAI, UK Government on sabbatical
12:00 - 12:45
Panel | Addressing the trust crisis in our democracies
Prof Marta Cantero Gamito : Professor of Information Technology Law at the University of Tartu and Research Fellow at the European University Institute
Dr Eloise Hamilton : AI Safety Expert at the EU AI Office & Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge
12:45 - 2:00
Lunch Break (offered)
Rebuilding social cohesion in AI-powered societies
2:00 - 2:20
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
2:20 - 2:40
Paper | AI as Bureaucratic Decision-Making
Prof 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
Paper | AI with Heart: A Joy-Centered Framework for Ethical AI Development & Implementation
Prof Desmond Patton : Brian and Randi Schwartz University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
3:00 - 3:20
Paper | AI, Digital Democracy, and the crisis of social cohesion: Rebuilding political trust
Adrien Tallent : CIFRE PhD candidate at Sorbonne University & SNCF Réseau
3:20 - 3:50
Coffee break (offered)
3:50 - 4:10
Talk | Moral Justifications for Fostering Moral Trust in Machines
Prof Elizabeth Phillips : Assistant professor at Mason University
4:10 - 4:30
Initiative | Rebuilding common references: lessons from the field
Alice Bougnères : General Manager at SQUARE
4:30 - 5:30
Discussion | Regaining control over the world’s future
Dr Eric Schmidt [TBC] : Co-founder of Schmidt Futures, Founder of Special Competitive Studies Project & Ex-CEO at Google
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

University of Oxford

Dr John Basl

Northeastern University

Dr Geoffrey Keeling

Google

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

the European University Institute

Prof James K. Wong

the Hong Kong University of Science & 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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