Chair productions: Chair productions: Ethics & AI chair, labeled within the framework of the Grenoble MIAI institute, is both anchored in philosophy (research unit affiliation: Grenoble Institute of Philosophy, UGA), and firmly multidisciplinary insofar as it includes members from the following disciplines: computer science, robotics, cognitive and clinical psychology, information and communication sciences, management sciences. It aims at a better understanding of the social, moral and political stakes involved in AI’s deployment, as well as determining ethical rules for a democratic AI, in connection with its economic and social partners.

The Ethics & AI chair aims at developing a philosophical understanding of Artificial Intelligence, through research, training and valorisation. It is anchored in Philosophy and reflects the activities of the Institut de Philosophie de Grenoble (IPhiG), a research unit of Grenoble Alpes University. These activities include meta-ethics, normative ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy, philosophy of law and philosophy of cognition. This variety of viewpoints grants the Chair a potential for in-depth research into subjects to which the relations between ethics and AI give rise today. The Chair’s project leader, who is specialized in public ethics and philosophy of innovation, oversees the productive interaction of this variety of perpsectives. The chair contributes to the "Ethics and Society" pillar of MIAI, and maintains a close relationship with the research carried out in the institute’s other pillars. Researchers in computer science are thus invited to sit on the Chair's Scientific Steering Committee. Through the initiatives and projects it develops, the Chair also brings together researchers from other disciplines from the human and social sciences (such as clinical and social psychology, information and communication sciences, management sciences and marketing).

1. What is intelligence (natural, human) in and for artificial intelligence?
    
2. What kind of society "is being promoted through AI"?
    
3. What are the most relevant procedures, rules and values for both the design and the practices and uses of AI?
    
4. What is the right perspective for determining a "democratic" AI?
    
5. What incidence does AI have on (the state of the art of) ethics?

Activities

Internal seminars

• October 2019: launch seminar & presentations of the research projects of the recruited researchers: Tyler Reigeluth (postdoctoral student) and Seddik Benlaksira (doctoral student): https://iphig.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/seminaire-inaugural-chaire-ethique-et-ia


• 4 December 2019: "Is facial recognition a good or a bad thing (ethically speaking?)", speeches by Claude Castelluccia (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) and Thierry Ménissier: https://iphig.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/reconnaissance-faciale-bonne-ou-mauvaise-chose-ethiquement-parlant


• 4 February 2020: "Dependence on technology and algorithmic normativities", speeches by Fabienne Martin-Juchat (Gresec UGA) and Jérémy Grosmann & Tyler Reigeluth:https://iphig.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/dependance-technologie-et-normativites-algorithmiques

Colloquia

• Organisation (by T. Reigeluth & Th. Ménissier) of the colloquium "IA: What to do with technical transparency? ", 8-9 October 2020, Grenoble: call for papers in progress.

Invited lectures

• 22/01/20: Invited lecture Alexei Grinbaum (CEA Saclay): "Robots and evil": https://iphig.univ-grenoble-alpes.fr/actualites/robots-et-mal-dalexei-grinbaum
   

• Being organized for autumn 2020: Invited lecture by Antonio Casilli (Télécom Paris and Centre Edgar-Morin, EHESS).

Workshops

• 27/05/20, workshop on "computer science and theology", around Mark Alizart's book, Informatique céleste (PUF, 2016), in the presence of the authors.

Chair events

• 13/03/20: co-organization and co-facilitation with Michel Cézon (computer scientist and coach, Cogiteo company) of the round table "AI and coaching, their reciprocal contributions", an event within the framework of the "Transfo French Tech in the Alps" festival, Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation, Grenoble. https://www.festival-transfo.fr/evenement/346/74-ia-et-coaching-une-reflexion-ethique-sur-leurs-apports-reciproques.htm
  
  
• 18-19/03/20: conception and animation of the workshop "Créativ'IA. Let's transform our relationship to AI", 5th edition of Promising's winter school in creativity management: two days of continuous training for 60 executives from private and public organizations, coordinating 6 parallel workshops around the issues of AI in organizations: https://www.promising.fr/actualites/agenda/creativ-ia-transformons-notre-rapport-a-l-ia-576452.kjsp

Post-doctoral contract (IPhiG)

Public and private freedoms, powers, control, trust: the deployment of Artificial Intelligence, challenges and perspectives for ethics and political theory

PhD thesis (Gresec & IPhiG)

Gender issues as an ethical perspective for the Learning machine: The case of video game design