Fireside Talk with Asma Mhalla & Etienne Klein Is Our Brain the Next Battleground?
Ivy Plus European Leaders
in partnership with
HEC Advanced Technologies Alumni Club, ESSEC Defense and Economic Security Alumni Club, TELECOM Paris Alumni and Science Po Alumni
has the pleasure of inviting you to a timely and thought-provoking
Fireside - Conversation
Artificial Intelligence: Birth of a New Leviathan?
Will Tech Turn Us Into Robots?
Is Our Brain the Next Battleground for Humanity?
with
Asma Mhalla
halla
Political Scientist in Tech & AI - Essayist
Lecturer at Science Po, Ecole Polytechnique, Columbia Global Centers
Researcher at the Laboratory of Political Anthropology at EHESS/CNRS
Author Technopolitique: Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats
Graduate ESCP - Ph.D. in Political Science from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
&
Etienne Klein
Physicist, Philosopher of Science, Author
Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Sciences of Matter at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Member of the French Academy of Technologies
Graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, Post Graduate Diploma in Theoretical Physics, Ph.D in Philosophy of Sciences - University Paris-Diderot
Through different approaches, our renowned speakers Asma Mhalla and Etienne Klein will tackle the issues raised in Technopolitique and delve beyond.
Monday 16 December 2024 - 6:30 pm
(welcome from 6:00pm)
Maison des ESSEC - Paris 8
How can we address the overwhelming impacts of technology on society? Can we resist the potential transformation of our autonomy and thought processes? How can we preserve our democracies?
Asma Mhalla analyzes the hybrid challenges posed by AI and tech to human sovereignty and democracy. In her essay Technopolitique, she explores the political and economic consolidation of power in tech giants. She underscores "Big Tech"'s function in surveillance, social control, geopolitics, and what she defines as "the militarization of civil society." She emphasizes the need to educate citizens, before they become soldiers of a "cyber social order." She questions the influence of social media, the powerplays between "Big State" and "Big Tech," the role of large companies such as Starlink or Amazon in geopolitical conflicts, as well as on the electoral process in the United States. She believes in the urgent need to design new policies and political structures to secure our democracies, redefine societal norms and governance.
Etienne Klein encourages us to bridge intellectual silos and the limitations of our cognitive frameworks. To him, philosophical reflections are relevant to the crises at hand. He stresses the difference between being intelligent and mimicking intelligence as AI does. In his book
Political Scientist in Tech & AI - Essayist
Lecturer at Science Po, Ecole Polytechnique, Columbia Global Centers
Researcher at the Laboratory of Political Anthropology at EHESS/CNRS
Author Technopolitique: Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats
Graduate ESCP - Ph.D. in Political Science from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
&
Etienne Klein
Physicist, Philosopher of Science, Author
Director of the Laboratory for Research on the Sciences of Matter at the French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
Member of the French Academy of Technologies
Graduate of Ecole Centrale de Paris, Post Graduate Diploma in Theoretical Physics, Ph.D in Philosophy of Sciences - University Paris-Diderot
Through different approaches, our renowned speakers Asma Mhalla and Etienne Klein will tackle the issues raised in Technopolitique and delve beyond.
Monday 16 December 2024 - 6:30 pm
(welcome from 6:00pm)
Maison des ESSEC - Paris 8
How can we address the overwhelming impacts of technology on society? Can we resist the potential transformation of our autonomy and thought processes? How can we preserve our democracies?
Asma Mhalla analyzes the hybrid challenges posed by AI and tech to human sovereignty and democracy. In her essay Technopolitique, she explores the political and economic consolidation of power in tech giants. She underscores "Big Tech"'s function in surveillance, social control, geopolitics, and what she defines as "the militarization of civil society." She emphasizes the need to educate citizens, before they become soldiers of a "cyber social order." She questions the influence of social media, the powerplays between "Big State" and "Big Tech," the role of large companies such as Starlink or Amazon in geopolitical conflicts, as well as on the electoral process in the United States. She believes in the urgent need to design new policies and political structures to secure our democracies, redefine societal norms and governance.
Etienne Klein encourages us to bridge intellectual silos and the limitations of our cognitive frameworks. To him, philosophical reflections are relevant to the crises at hand. He stresses the difference between being intelligent and mimicking intelligence as AI does. In his book
Courts-Circuits, he invites us to
provoke "short-circuits" in our brain between disparate fields. We need these sparks to grasp, to anticipate and to rise to the serious ethical, political and social challenges posed
by exponential technological advances. Imagination, intuition and creativity are unique human attributes which allow us to envision concepts which are both abstract and concrete, such
as time and space. Connections exist between Einstein and the Rolling Stones, physics, music, maths, poetry, art... There are ways out of the "matrix."
We look forward to welcoming you to this stimulating discussion!
Note: The talks will be in French
The fireside-chat will be followed by a Q&A session,
a Cocktail Reception and a Book Signing
by Asma Mhalla of her essay Technopolitique: Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats (Ed. le Seuil)
and by Etienne Klein of his latest book Courts-Circuits(Ed. Gallimard).
We look forward to welcoming you to this stimulating discussion!
Note: The talks will be in French
The fireside-chat will be followed by a Q&A session,
a Cocktail Reception and a Book Signing
by Asma Mhalla of her essay Technopolitique: Comment la technologie fait de nous des soldats (Ed. le Seuil)
and by Etienne Klein of his latest book Courts-Circuits(Ed. Gallimard).
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