Speakers

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

TalkThe landscape of information dysfunction: A visitor's guide

Marc-Antoine Brillant

Director at VIGINUM

PanelCountering foreign influence in the digital age

Laura Manley

Executive Director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School

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

Prof Nathaniel Persily

James B. Mc Clatchy Professor of Law at Stanford University and Founding Co-Director of the Stanford Cyber Policy Center

DiscussionAI Governance in an Uncertain World

Dr Yordanka Ivanova

Head of AI Regulation and Compliance at the European AI office

PanelAddressing the trust crisis in our democracies

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

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

Prof Jane Bambauer

Chair of the National AI Advisory Committee Subcommittee on Law Enforcement & Brechner Eminent Scholar at the University of Florida

PaperThe Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law

Prof Aggelos Kiayias

Chief Scientist at IOG and Chair in Cyber Security & director of the Blockchain Technology Laboratory at the University of Edinburgh

TalkTrust By Decentralization? Where Blockchain Systems meet Responsible AI challenges

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

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

Dr Alexei Grinbaum

Director of Research and Chairman of the Digital Ethics Steering Committee at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission

TalkViolence and the artificial

Prof Yuan Lu

Associate Professor at the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences

PaperBootstrapping Trust in Web3 from Publicly-Verifiable Internet Data

Prof Sven Nyholm

Professor of the Ethics of AI at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Brian Friedberg

Senior Researcher at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy & PhD candidate at Harvard University

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

Prof James K. Wong

Associate Dean of Humanities & Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Prof Roberto Caparroz

Professor of Law & Technology at Fundacao Getulio Vargas

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

Prof Elizabeth Phillips

Assistant professor at Mason University

TalkMoral Justifications for Fostering Moral Trust in Machines

Dr David DeFranza

Assistant Professor at University College Dublin

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

Dr Chris Elsden

Chancellor’s Fellow in Service Design in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh

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

Dr Soo Young Bae

Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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

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

PaperAI as Bureaucratic Decision-Making

Dr Clément Bénesse

Senior AI Researcher at Opsci.ai

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

Alva Markelius

PhD candidate and Cambridge Trust Scholar at the University of Cambridge

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

Dr John Basl

Associate Professor at Northeastern University

DiscussionAI Governance in an Uncertain World

Dr Thomas Souverain

Postdoctoral fellow at the French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission

PanelAddressing the trust crisis in our democracies

Adrien Tallent

CIFRE PhD candidate at Sorbonne University & SNCF Réseau

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

Élie Chevignard

PhD candidate at French Alternative & Atomic Energy Commission, Paris Saclay University

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

Dr Davide Clementi

Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Palermo and CSDC member at Roma Tre University

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

Jaqueline Simas Claveland de Oliveira

PhD candidate at Fundação Getulio Vargas

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

Dr Didier Danet

Director of the Specialized Masters & Lecturer at Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan schools

PaperGaming the System: Extremist Strategies in Immersive Virtual Universes

Dr Isaac Taylor

Reader (Docent) at Stockholm University

PaperThe Speech Act Gap and Counterspeech

Dr Wenlong Li

Lecturer in Law at the Aston University

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

Shana Kleiner

Manager at the Center for Responsible Innovation & Technology at the University of Pennsylvania

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

Hugo Besançon

Deputy managing director at SQUARE

InitiativeRebuilding common references: lessons from the field

Priscila Chaves

AI Innovation & Ecosystem lead at Carhill

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

Julian Pelloth

PhD candidate at the RPTU Kaiserslauten-Landau

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

Lena Pölzer

Master Student at the RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau

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

Lila Greenberg

J.D. candidate at the University of Florida

PaperThe Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law

Julie Wittenberg

J.D. candidate at the University of Florida

PaperThe Demand for Bullshit Under American and European Law

Nick Deas

PhD candidate at Columbia University

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

Dr Hubert Etienne

President at Quintessence AI

PanelCountering foreign influence in the digital age