EVA Chair presentation

Inaugural sessions: “Context, meaning, and challenges of the chair in the Ethics of the Living and the Artificial”

4pm-7pm

Château de Valrose (Theater) - 28 avenue Valrose, Nice

In French and English with simultaneous interpreting

First session

•  Opening speeches:

- Ms. Orio Ikebe (Program Specialist, UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section, Human and Social Sciences Sector)
- Jeannick Brisswalter (Président of Université Côte d’Azur)

• Presentation of the Chair’s international and local ecosystem (presentation of the in-stitutions by their heads and explanation of the context and meaning of their collab-oration with the UNESCO EVA Chair).

-Pr Jeannick Brisswalter (Idex)
-Pr Charles Bouveyron (3IA)
-Pr Jean-Paul Aubert (EUR CREATES)
-Pr Luc Deneire (EUR DS4H)
-Pr Grégori Jean (CRHI)
-Pr Marie-Hélène Parizeau (U. Laval, Québec)
-Pr John Shawe-Taylor (IRCAI)

Second session: General presentation of the EVA Chair

moderated by Charles Bouveyron

•  Prof. Vanessa Nurock (Philosopher, Université Côte d’Azur, CRHI, scientific coordinator of the UNESCO EVA Chair).
•  Prof. François Berger (Neuroscientist and Physician, INSERM, head of the Braintech lab and member of the UNESCO EVA Chair).

Third session

• Ethics by design as a field of study of the EVA Chair : Prof. Marie-Hélène Parizeau (Philosopher, U. Laval Québec, member of the EVA Chair scientific committee, member of OBVIA) and Pr. Vanessa Nurock (Philosopher, Université Côte d’Azur, CRHI, scientific coordinator of the UNESCO EVA Chair).

Discussion with the audience and cocktail.

Parallel working sessions

“Philosophical issues of interactions between natural and artificial systems”

from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

Château de Valrose (Salle des Actes) - 28 avenue Valrose, Nice

Moderated by Prof. Grégori Jean (CRHI)
Opening statements by Prof. Grégori Jean
Prof. Marie-Hélène Parizeau (Philosopher, U. Laval Québec, member of the EVA Chair scientific committee, member of OBVIA): “Health and Artificial Intelligence”
Prof. Nythamar de Oliveira (Philosopher, Pontifical Univ. of Porto Allegre): «Tech-nosciences and Neuroethics»

In French with slides in English

Discussion with the audience

Lecture by John Shawe-Taylor (UCL, IRCAI, scientific coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in AI) :  «Statistical Learning Theory for Modern Machine Learning»

INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée - Kahn auditorium - 1645 Route des lucioles
06902 Sophia Antipolis – France

Discussion with the audience

In English


Lunch
 

Working session "How to make AI more ethical? Reflecting on the UNESCO Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence"

from 2:30 to 4:30 pm

Valrose (Salle des Actes) - 28 avenue Valrose, Nice

Moderated by: Ludovic Dibiaggio (Head of OTESIA)
Participants: Ms. Orio Ikebe (Program Specialist, UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section, Human and Social Sciences Sector), Ms. Doaa Abu-Elyounes (Project Coordinator, UNESCO Bioethics and Ethics of Science Section & Affiliated Researcher at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University) Prof. John Shawe-Taylor (Professor at UCL, London; scientific coordinator of the UNESCO Chair in AI, head of IRCAI), Mr. Shigemitsu Toma (Permanent Delegation of Japan to UNESCO)

In English

Acknowledgements and closing remarks: Vanessa Nurock

16.15-16.30