IRCAI at AI ACTION SUMMIT

Date: 6. 2. 2025
Time: 9:00 – 18:00 CEST
Location: CNRS Site Pouchet, 59 rue Pouchet, 75849 Paris cedex 17

How should we cultivate democracy in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)? How can we ensure that AI does not jeopardize it, now and for future generations, but rather helps to strengthen democracy and education for democracy?

Join this important side event with AI and ethics experts to discuss these pressing questions, which are as crucial as any technological advances, with insights from the Journal of Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development (JAISD). The event aims to deepen the discussion on the articles published or not yet published and to identify new avenues of research in a multicultural and multidisciplinary perspective.

This workshop is co-organized by Vanessa Nurock, Professor of Philosophy at the Côte d’Azur University and CIS & UNESCO EVA Chair (Ethics of the Living and the Artificial), and John Shawe-Taylor, director of IRCAI and UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the University College London, with the support of Europe Horizon ELIAS, Center for Internet and Society at CNRS and the Interdisciplinary Institute for Artificial Intelligence (3iA) at the Côte d’Azur University.

AGENDA

9:30 – 9:45: Workshop opening
John Shawe-Taylor & Vanessa Nurock

9.45-10.00:
Onwards to an Ethical and Bias Aware Education for Sustainability through AI
Joao Pita Costa, IRCAI

10.00-10.45:
Democratization of Knowledge: Ethical Challenges and Social Responsibility in Info-Digitalization for Empowering Minority Groups in Chile – The Case of Indigenous Communities
Carolina Valdebenito Herrera, Central University of Chile

10.45-11.15: Coffee break

11.15-12.00:
Virtuous and abusive uses of AI in information dissemination
Jean-Gabriel Ganascia, Sorbonne University

12.00-12.30: General discussion

12.30-14.15: Lunch

14.15-14.45: Artificial Intelligence in Education as a Threat to the Democratic Imagination
Jim Katz, Boston University

14.45-15.15: “Dare to Think” Education for Democracy with AI
Vanessa Nurock, Côte d’Azur University, CIS & UNESCO EVA Chair

15.15-15.45: Human-centric AI and Education
John Shawe-Taylor, IRCAI and UNESCO Chair on AI at University College London

15.45-16.15: Coffee break

16.15-16.45: The Cultural Search: AI, Sustainability, and the Human Touch
Juliet Floyd, Boston University

16.45-17.15: Exploring the Ethics of Generative AI, Education, and Democracy
Wayne Holmes, University College London

17.15-18.00: Final discussion and conclusion