Speakers

Speakers of the 2026 edition

Edition 2026

PCAIDE 2026 on June 11-12 at Paris Mines - PSL University

Dr Sasha Luccioni

Dr Sasha Luccioni

AI & Climate Lead at Hugging Face and Holder of the AI & Social Justice Chair (Abeona/ENS/OBVIA)

TalkAI for Sustainability and the Sustainability of AI: Two Sides of a Different Coin

Prof Matthias Scheutz

Prof Matthias Scheutz

Karol Family Applied Technology Professor at Tufts University & Director for Human-AI Interactions at the Tufts Institute for AI

TalkThe Social Lure of Generative AI

Prof Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby

Prof Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby

Professor of Medical Ethics and Associate Director of the Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy at Baylor College of Medicine

TalkOverview of current bioethical issues in the healthcare industry

Dr Antonin Bergeaud

Dr Antonin Bergeaud

Associate professor of economics at HEC Paris

TalkThe Macroeconomics of AI

Dr Mar Carpanelli

Dr Mar Carpanelli

Head of AI and Skills research at LinkedIn (Economic Graph)

PanelThe future of work: research evidences, trends and expectations

Dr Golestan (Sally) Radwan

Dr Golestan (Sally) Radwan

Chief Digital Officer at the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Vice-Chair of Ethics of AI at UNESCO’s AdHoc Expert Group

DiscussionImplementing Sustainable AI in Practice in Organisations

Prof Katrina Bramstedt

Prof Katrina Bramstedt

Global Head of Bioethics at Roche & Adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology

PanelGlobal Head of Bioethics at Roche & Adjunct professor at Queensland University of Technology

Dr Nataliya Kosmyna

Dr Nataliya Kosmyna

Research scientist at MIT Media Lab’s Fluid Interfaces group & Visiting Research Faculty at Google

DiscussionInteracting with LLMs: beyond risks and opportunities

Theo Alves

Theo Alves

Partner AI & Sustainability at Ekimetrics & President at Data For Good

DiscussionImplementing Sustainable AI in Practice in Organisations

Prof Maria Melchior

Prof Maria Melchior

Research director at Inserm, Deputy head at Institut Pierre Louis d'Epidémiologie et de Santé Publique & Annual chair in Public Health at Collège de France

DiscussionInteracting with LLMs: beyond risks and opportunities

Anca Scortariu

Anca Scortariu

Deputy Head of Unit “AI in Health and Life Sciences” at the EU AI Office, European Commission.

PanelIntegrating ethical standards in health organisation’s activities

Yann Ferguson

Yann Ferguson

Scientific director of LaborIA at Inria

PanelThe future of work: research evidences, trends and expectations

Prof Sylvie Delacroix

Prof Sylvie Delacroix

Jeff Price Chair in Digital Law & Founding Director of the Centre for Data Futures at King's College London

DiscussionInteracting with LLMs: beyond risks and opportunities

Théophile Lenoir

Théophile Lenoir

Coordinator of the Observatory on the Environmental Footprint of AI at Ecole Normale Supérieure & PhD candidate at the University of Milan

PaperWill AI Help Solve Climate Change? Assessing the Evidence

Dr Sara Berger

Dr Sara Berger

Sr Research Scientist and Director of Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab at IBM Research

PaperSetting boundaries: Defining “neurodata” and the implications for AI policy and Regulation

Dr Primavera De Filippi

Dr Primavera De Filippi

Director of research at CNRS & Associate researcher at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University

PaperFrom Extraction to Exchange: A Data Streaming Framework for Equitable AI Content Economics

Prof Vincent Vigneron

Prof Vincent Vigneron

Professor of Statistical Learning for Precision Medicine at the University of Évry & head of the SIAM team (IBISC Lab) at the IBISC Lab

PaperToward a Self-Organizing Literature Review: An Application to the Financial Impacts of Physical Climate Risks

Dr Adrià Segarra

Dr Adrià Segarra

Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge

PaperEpistemically-Aware AI

Dr Tom van Nuenen

Dr Tom van Nuenen

Lecturer and Senior Data Scientist at UC Berkeley

PaperThe Fabricated Front: A Typology of GenAI Opacity Mechanisms at Work

Rafael Plaza

Rafael Plaza

Research Director at IMPACTO – AI Governance & Institutional Design

PaperGenerative AI as a Third Agent: Rethinking Academic Work and Principal–AI Agent Dynamics in Higher Education

Dr Arno Libert

Dr Arno Libert

Research scientist at Aithos Research Foundation

PaperMoral Competence Before Moral Content: Why AI Systems Lack the Prerequisites for Value Alignment

Janko Munjić

Janko Munjić

PhD candidate at the University of Kragujevac

PaperHybrid Intention and Augmented Agency: Allocation of Criminal Culpability in Neuroprosthetic Control

Alexandru Mateescu

Alexandru Mateescu

PhD candidate at Université Panthéon-Sorbonne

PaperIrrationality, Loops, and Affective Personalization in Human-AI Interaction

Marta Grasso

Marta Grasso

PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma

PaperReconfiguring Creative Labour: Generative AI, Work Practices, and the Ethics of Distributed Agency

Claudia Solinas

Claudia Solinas

PhD candidate at University Sapienza di Roma

PaperReconfiguring Creative Labour: Generative AI, Work Practices, and the Ethics of Distributed Agency

Marco Di Donato

Marco Di Donato

PhD candidate at University of Verona

PaperEnvironmental Impacts of Data Centers and Criminal Law Responses: A Comparative Perspective

Daan Henselmans

Daan Henselmans

Executive director at Aithos Research Foundation

PaperMeasuring AI Accountability Through Argumentation Analysis: Can Model Reasoning Withstand Scrutiny

Oluwakorede Ajibona

Oluwakorede Ajibona

PhD candidate at the Center for Cyber-Social Dynamics at the University of Kansa

PaperAI, Democracy and environmental justice in Africa

Dr Mehmet Unver

Dr Mehmet Unver

Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire

PaperRegulating the Unseen: AI Accountability in UK Healthcare Sector

Iris Coates McCall

Iris Coates McCall

Research Analyst at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Canada

PaperSetting boundaries: Defining “neurodata” and the implications for AI policy and Regulation

Iheanyichukwu Henry Ogu

Iheanyichukwu Henry Ogu

Investigations and Information Compliance Officer at Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

PaperRegulating the Unseen: AI Accountability in UK Healthcare Sector

Sebnem Erener

Sebnem Erener

Independent researcher at AI governance and policy counsel

PaperFrom Extraction to Exchange: A Data Streaming Framework for Equitable AI Content Economics

Chiara Marcoccia

Chiara Marcoccia

Graduate student at École Normale Supérieure - PSL

PaperAre we going towards a Human-AI Coevolution? A multi-leveled framework to study the impact of human-AI interaction on societal behaviors

Dr Thomas Souverain

Dr Thomas Souverain

Postdoctoral fellow at French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy

PanelIntegrating ethical standards in health organisation’s activities

Dr Hubert Etienne

Dr Hubert Etienne

CEO at Quintessence AI

PanelThe future of work: research evidences, trends and expectations

Michael Anslow

Michael Anslow

Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories

PaperChildren’s Rights, Metacognition, and AI Literacy: A Conceptual Framework

Martina Galletti

Martina Galletti

Researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratories

PaperChildren’s Rights, Metacognition, and AI Literacy: A Conceptual Framework

Prof Sven Nyholm

Prof Sven Nyholm

Professor of AI Ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

TalkOpening address

Dr. Pratik Sachdeva

Dr. Pratik Sachdeva

Research Scientist at D-Lab, UC Berkeley

PaperThe Fabricated Front: A Typology of GenAI Opacity Mechanisms at Work

Sahiba Chopra

Sahiba Chopra

PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley

PaperThe Fabricated Front: A Typology of GenAI Opacity Mechanisms at Work

Prof Thomas Grégory

Prof Thomas Grégory

Deputy Head of Department and Associate Professor at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou & Professor of orthopaedic surgery and trauma at Université Sorbonne ParisNord

Dr Jana Sedlakova

Dr Jana Sedlakova

Postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford

PaperEmpowering Patients with DIY Ethics for DIY Health Technologies

Narmadha Kamalakannan

Narmadha Kamalakannan

PhD Candidate at Ecole des Ponts Business School

PaperFrom Fear to Fluency: Cultivating AI Confidence and Socio-Economic Wellbeing in the Workforce

Dr Paolo Stringari

Dr Paolo Stringari

Research Director at Mines Paris - PSL

TalkOpening address

Anca Scortariu

Anca Scortariu

Deputy Head of Unit “AI in Health and Life Sciences” at the EU AI Office, European Commission

PanelImplementing Ethical Standards in Health Organisation's Activities

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