Workshop: Paris • April 19 – 20th, 2022

Public event: April 19 19:00 Paris time.

Artificial intelligence, the brain and society

A two day workshop on AI, the Brain and Society at the Paris Institute of Advanced Studies (Quai d’Anjou, Ile St Louis) on April 19 and 20 will bring together scientists, engineers, philosophers and ethicists to discuss how brain science is impacting the development of AI, what AI has to tell us about the brain, and how AI advances will influence society, our interactions with one another and with our devices.  The workshop will include around 70 people, including researchers, technologists and students from the Paris area as well as international invited speakers. The meeting will focus primarily on open discussion in panels.

We hope that the meeting will result in a novel Perspectives style piece that we can work on collectively.

Connected with the meeting, we plan a public event on the evening of 20th April with industry and academic leaders in AI, Yoshua Bengio (MILA Montreal), Yann LeCun (Facebook AI Research) and Blaise Aguera y Arcas (Google Research) to discuss the state and trajectory of artificial intelligence, and how we can manage the ethical and societal consequences of these developments.

Current speakers include:

  • Yoshua Bengio, MILA, Montreal. One of the founders of Deep Learning, author of the Montreal Declaration on AI.
  • Yann LeCun, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research, Paris and NYU. One of the founders of Deep Learning, lead researcher at Facebook.
  • Blaise Aguera y Arcas, VP Fellow, Google Research, Seattle. Leads development team on privacy-preserving AI and federated learning.
  • Kathinka Evers, Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics (CRB) at Uppsala University. Professor of philosophy. Neuroethics lead in the Human Brain Project
  • Golnoosh Farnadi, HEC Montreal. Professor of machine learning with a focus on AI ethics and fair decision making.
  • Catherine Tallon-Baudry, ENS, Paris. Key researcher in the neuroscience of interoception and consciousness.
  • Antonio Damasio, USC. Renowned neuroscientist with a focus on emotion and decision making, author of “Descartes’ Error”.
  • Ida Mommenajad, Microsoft Research, Montreal. Researcher of cognitive models of reinforcement learning.
  • Laurence Devillers, LIMSI-CNRS, DATAIA Institute, Paris. Professor of artificial intelligence and AI ethics.
  • Gloria Origgi, ENS, Paris. Philosopher of mind, researcher into trust in the internet age, author of the recent book “Reputation”.