Speakers

Speakers of the 2024 edition

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

General Jean-Paul Paloméros

General Jean-Paul Paloméros

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


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

Dr Antoine Bordes

Dr Antoine Bordes

Vice-President AI of Helsing, former co-managing director of the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) laboratory at Meta


Panel: Implementing ethics practically into defense products

Megha Arora

Megha Arora

Responsible AI Product Lead at Palantir Technologies


Panel: Implementing ethics practically into defense products

Dr Renee Shelby

Dr Renee Shelby

Researcher in the social impacts of technology in the Responsible AI organization at Google Research


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

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


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

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


Debate: The scientific foundations of existential risks

Prof Marta Cantero Gamito

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


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

Pierre-Etienne Devineau

Pierre-Etienne Devineau

Lead AI at the DINUM, French government


Initiative: Building LLM services for French public administrations

Prof Erwin Huang

Prof Erwin Huang

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


Initiative: AI Case Study in Hong Kong’s Diverse Tertiary Educational Landscape

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

Prof Chris Russell

Prof Chris Russell

Dieter Schwarz Associate Professor of AI, Government, and Policy at the University of Oxford


Talk: The Unfairness of Fair Machine Learning: Levelling down and strict egalitarianism by default

Lidia Velkova

Lidia Velkova

Managing Director at Clever Together Futureproof


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

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

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


Debate: The scientific foundations of existential risks

Prof James K. Wong

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


Paper: Democratizing Value Alignment: From Technology to Ethical Governance

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 Bernhard Krach

Dr Bernhard Krach

Co-Owner Military Technologies Roadmap at Airbus


Paper: Implementing ethics practically into defense products

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 Tomasz Hollanek

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


Paper: Towards Participation as Justice in Generative AI

Dr Florian Richter

Dr Florian Richter

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences


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

Prof Jessi Grieser

Prof Jessi Grieser

Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of Michigan


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

Shana Kleiner

Shana Kleiner

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


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

Dr Ziyaad Bhorat

Dr Ziyaad Bhorat

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


Initiative: Building trustworthy AI through the Responsible Computing Challenge

Dr Kate Vredenburgh

Dr Kate Vredenburgh

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


Talk: Approaching the future of human-computer interactions

Jesús Salgado

Jesús Salgado

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


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

Dr Kevin Mills

Dr Kevin Mills

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


Paper: Technology, Liberty, and Moral Guardrails

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

Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli

Prof Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli

ssistant Professor, School of Law at the University of Bradford


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

Dr Neringa Gaubiené

Dr Neringa Gaubiené

Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law of Vilnius University


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

Dr Thomas Souverain

Dr Thomas Souverain

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


Paper: AI to Renew Public Employment Services

Prof Adel Alshehri

Prof Adel Alshehri

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


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

Vedantha Singh

Vedantha Singh

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


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

Prof Ivan Mladenovic

Prof Ivan Mladenovic

Professor of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade


Paper: The Prospects of Digital Democracy

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

Prof Chloé Bakalar

Prof Chloé Bakalar

Chief Ethicist at Meta AI and Assistant Professor of Political Sciences at Temple University


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

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

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