The Paris Conference 2024
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Selection process
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The editorial committee reviewed all submissions received by February 22nd, following rigorour double-blind review standards. The editorial committee was chaired by Dr Hubert Etienne (Quintessence AI) and composed of ​Prof Brent Mittelstadt (Oxford University), Prof John Basl (Northeastern University), Prof Dominique Lestel (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Dr Jeff Behrends (Harvard University), Prof Marta Cantero Gamito (European University Institute, Prof Marc-Antoine Dilhac (University of Montréal), Prof Rob Reich (Stanford University), Dr Geoff Keeling (Google), Dr Giada Pistilli (Hugging Face) and Prof Chloé Bakalar (Meta & Temple University).
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Selected papers
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The extended abstracts below were selected to be presented at the conference and the authors were invited to have the full version of their paper published in the conference's proceedings.
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1. Waging Warfare Against States: The Deployment of Artificial Intelligence in Cyber Espionage
Wan Rosalili Wan Rosli (School of Law, University of Bradford)
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2. The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Digital Enforcement Process (e-Enforcement)
Neringa Gaubiené (Faculty of Law, Vilnius University)
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3. An Ethical Surveillance Framework to Protect People During Religious Pilgrimages
Adel Alshehri (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)
Waleed Almutairi (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)
Abdulaziz AlQabbany (Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Institute, King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology)
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4. The Prospects of Digital Democracy
Ivan Mladenovic (Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade)
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5. From Opportunity to Effective Agency: How Artificial Intelligence Reshapes Free Choice in Democratic Societies
Roberta Fischli (School for Economics and Political Sciences, University of St. Gallen)
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6. Responsible AI in practice: Longitudinal study of the operationalisation of AI regulation and ethics in the healthcare sector
Vedantha Singh (Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town)
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7. AI to renew public employment services
Thomas Souverain (Institut Jean Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL)
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8. Democratizing Value Alignment: From Authoritarian to Democratic AI Ethics
Linus Huang (Division of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Gleb Papyshev (Division of Social Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
James K. Wong (Division of Social Science & Humanities, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
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9. Towards Participation as Justice in Generative AI
Tomasz Hollanek (Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, University of Cambridge)
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10. Unmasking Camouflage: Exploring the Challenges of Large Language Models in Deciphering African American English & Online Performativity
Shana Kleiner (SAFELab, University of Pennsylvania)
Jessi Grieser (Department of Linguistics, University of Michigan)
Shug Miller (SAFELab, University of Pennsylvania)
Javier Garcia-Perez (SAFELab, University of Pennsylvania)
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11. Evolving Social-Relational Norms in the Era of Superintelligent AI
Madeline G. Reinecke (Department of Psychiatry & Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
Andreas Kappes (Department of Psychology, City, University of London)
Brian D. Earp (Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford)
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12. Trustworthy AI and the "Conscious CoPilot": Navigating our Interactions with artificial agents
Jesús Salgado-Criado (Industrial Engineering School, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
Aïda Elamrani (Department of Cognitive Studies, Ecole Normale Supérieure-PSL)
María Celia Fernandez-Aller (Computer Science School, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid)
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13. Technology, Liberty, and Moral Guardrails
Kevin Mills (Schwarzman College of Computing, Massachusetts Institute f Technology)
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14. From Human-System Interaction to Human-System Co-Action: Ethical Assessment of Generative AI and Mutual Theory of Mind
Florian Richter (Technical University Ingolstadt of Applied Sciences)
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Statistics
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For this second edition of The Paris Conference, we received contributions from leading institutions in 18 countries. With an acceptance rate of 22%, it tends to be more selective than comparable conferences (e.g., ACM AIES: 38%).
Sources of contributions per institution type Sources of contributions per country
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Top 10 contributing universities Top 2 contributing industry actors Top 2 contributing NGOs
1. Harvard University Holistic AI Ecosistema Formazione Italia
2. King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology IBM Clever Together
3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
4. Technical University of Munich
5. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Top 2 contributing institutions
6. University of Oxford European Research Council Executive Agency
7. University of Pennsylvania Mexican Supreme Court of JusticeMexico
8. Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL
9. University of Cambridge
10. KU Leuven