Speakers

Speakers of the 2024 edition

June 6th & 7th, 27 rue Saint Guillaume at Sciences Po

Jérôme Barbier

Jérôme Barbier

Head of Outer Space, Digital and Economic Affairs at the Paris Peace Forum


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

Prof Ivan Mladenovic

Prof Ivan Mladenovic

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade


Paper: The Prospects of Digital Democracy

Vedantha Singh

Vedantha Singh

PhD student at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town at


Paper: Operationalisation of AI regulation and ethics in the healthcare sector

Prof Adel Alshehri

Prof Adel Alshehri

Assistant Professor at the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology at


Paper: An Ethical Surveillance Framework to Protect People During Religious Pilgrimages

Dr Neringa Gaubiené

Dr Neringa Gaubiené

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University at


Paper: he Role of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Enforcement Process (e-Enforcement)

Prof Juliette Sénéchal

Prof Juliette Sénéchal

Professor of Law at the University of Lille & in delegation at nstitut national de recherche en sciences et technologies du numérique (Inria)


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

Dr Kevin Mills

Dr Kevin Mills

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at the Schwarzman College of Computing, MIT at


Paper: Technology, Liberty, and Moral Guardrails

Jesús Salgado

Jesús Salgado

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


Paper: Trustworthy AI and the 'Conscious CoPilot': Navigating our Interactions with Artificial Agents

Dr Kate Vredenburgh

Dr Kate Vredenburgh

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


Talk: Approaching the future of human-computer interactions

Dr Ziyaad Bhorat

Dr Ziyaad Bhorat

Associate Director of the Center for Generative AI and Society at the University of Southern California at


Initiative: Building trustworthy AI through the Responsible Computing Challenge

Shana Kleiner

Shana Kleiner

Lab Manager, SAFELab, School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania at


Paper: Exploring the Challenges of Large Language Models in Deciphering African American English & Online Performativity

Prof Jessi Grieser

Prof Jessi Grieser

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan at


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

Dr Florian Richter

Dr Florian Richter

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences at


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

Roberta Fischli

Roberta Fischli

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


Paper: From Opportunity to Effective Agency: How Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Free Choice in Democratic Societies

Dr Bernhard Krach

Dr Bernhard Krach

Airbus Co-Owner Military Technologies Roadmap at


Panel: Implementing ethics practically into defense products

Dr Madeline Reinecke

Dr Madeline Reinecke

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


Paper: Evolving Social-Relational Norms in the Era of Superintelligent AI

Dr Clotilde Bômont

Dr Clotilde Bômont

Postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Strategic Research at the Military School


Talk: The digital sovereignty challenges at play behind cloud computing

Lidia Velkova

Lidia Velkova

Managing Director at Clever Together Futureproof


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

Prof Erwin Huang

Prof Erwin Huang

Associated Director, Program of Technology, Leadership and Entrepreneurship, Integrative Systems and Design at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology


Initiative: Learning: A Case Study in Hong Kong's Diverse Tertiary Educational Landscape

Pierre-Etienne Devineau

Pierre-Etienne Devineau

Lead AI at the DINUM, French government


Initiative: Building LLM services for French public administrations

Dr Haydn Belfield

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


Talk: The scientific foundations of existential risks

Alexander Pascal

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


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

Dr Renee Shelby

Dr Renee Shelby

Researcher in the social impacts of technology at Google


Panel: Comparing industry approaches to the ethical development of Generative AI models and products

Dr Alexei Grinbaum

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 at


Debate: The scientific foundations of existential risks

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

Professor of Information Technology Law at University of Tartu & Research Fellow at European University Institute


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

Dr Thomas Souverain

Dr Thomas Souverain

PhD candidate at Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL, Institut Jean Nicod at


Paper: AI to Renew Public Employment Services

Dr Tomasz Hollanek

Dr Tomasz Hollanek

Research Fellow at The Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge


Paper: Towards Participation as Justice in Generative AI

Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli

Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli

Assistant Professor, School of Law at the University of Bradford at


Paper: Waging Warfare Against States: The Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Espionage

General Jean-Paul Paloméros

General Jean-Paul Paloméros

President of the steering committee of the French-American Cyber Security Conference, ex-NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation at


Talk: How AI transforms decision-making processes in defense operation

Dr Cristian Canton

Dr Cristian Canton

Head of Engineering for Responsible AI, at Meta


Panel: Comparing industry approaches to the ethical development of Generative AI models and products

Dr Hubert Etienne

Dr Hubert Etienne

Senior Lecturer of AI Ethics at HEC Paris & CEO at Quintessence AI


Panel: Implementing ethics practically into defense products

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