A study day will be held at EHESS on May 31, 2024, in the Humathèque auditorium on the Condorcet campus, focusing on issue 240 of the journal Réseaux, entitled "Ethics of Artificial Intelligence: Field Studies."
The day is free to attend upon prior registration (by May 15 at the latest) via this link: Registration
PROGRAM
8:30 a.m. Welcome
8:45-9:00 a.m. – Romain Huret (President of EHESS), "Social Sciences and Artificial Intelligence"
9:00-9:15 a.m. – Patrice Flichy (Gustave Eiffel University, Director of the journal Réseaux), "The role of journals in structuring scientific debates"
9:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. – Valérie Beaudouin and Julia Velkovska, "Investigating the ethics of AI," presentation of the issue
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Lecture by Raja Chatila (Sorbonne University): "Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Scientific Foundations and Ethical Questions"
10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. – Break
Part I: Controversies (11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.)
11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. – "Artificial intelligence in the public sphere: from the scientific domain to the public problem. Investigation into a controversial publicization process" by Anne Bellon (UTC) and Julia Velkovska (Orange Labs and EHESS)
Discussant: Nicolas Dodier (EHESS, INSERM)
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. – "Risk prediction in criminal justice in the United States: the ProPublica-Compas case. The ethics of AI in action" by Valérie Beaudouin (EHESS) and Winston Maxwell (Télécom Paris)
Discussant: Liora Israël (EHESS)
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. – Lunch
Part II: AI and work (2:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.)
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – "But the algorithm will mimic our mistakes!" Constraints and effects of annotating AI training data" by Camille Girard-Chanudet (EHESS)
Discussant: Alexandra Bidet (CNRS)
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. – "The emergence of ethical issues during artificial intelligence software experiments" by Gérald Gaglio (Université Côte d'Azur) and Alain Loute (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Discussant: Janine Barbot (INSERM)
3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. – Break
4:00 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. – "The principle of AI explainability and its application in organizations" by Louis Vuarin (Télécom Paris and Ecole Polytechnique) and Véronique Steyer (Ecole Polytechnique)
Discussant: Marie Benedetto-Meyer (UTT and DARES)
4:45-5:30 p.m. – General discussion, coordinated by Claude Rosental (CNRS)
5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.: Closing cocktail reception
This event was supported by the EHESS Interdisciplinary Research Program in Social Sciences and AI.