Event

Kick-off: AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences

We are excited to announce the launch of the AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences at the Centre d’Économie de la Sorbonne. This new interdisciplinary lab aims to tackle key challenges posed by AI in data analysis and its impact on society.

The launch event will take place on November 15, 2024, at the Maison des Sciences Economiques. To attend, please register here by October 31

 

Program

9:00 – 9:30 : Welcoming Coffee – 6th Floor

9:30 – 9:45 : Opening Remarks – 6th Floor

  • Violaine Sebillotte (Vice President for Research, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University)
  • Stéphane Zuber (Director, Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne)
  • Thomas Renault (Head, AI Lab for Human and Social Sciences)

Session 1:  AI, Ethics and Society – 9:45 – 11:00

  • 9:45 – 10:15: Roland Rathelot (ENSAE, IP Paris, and CREST) “How Can AI Improve Search and Matching? Evidence from 59 Million Personalized Job Recommendations”
  • 10:15 – 10:45: Valentin Pelloin (INA) “Automatic Classification of News Subjects in Broadcast News: Application to Gender Bias Representation Analysis”
  • 10:45 – 11:00: Arianna Novaro (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES) “Repeated Fair Allocation of Indivisible Items” 
     

11:00 – 11:30 : Coffee Break – 6th Floor

Keynote Lecture – 11:30 – 12:30

  • Anton Korinek (University of Virginia) “Policy Challenges in the Age of AI”

12:30 – 14:00 : Lunch – 2nd Floor

14:00 – 14:15 : Afternoon Introduction – 6th Floor
 

  • Bastien Blain, Joëlle Farchy (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES) “AI and Compensation of Rights Holders: Policy Challenges”

Session 2: Textual Analysis Using AI – 14:15 – 15:30

  • 14:15 – 14:45: Sergio Galletta (ETH Zürich) “BallotBot: Can Chatbots Strengthen Direct Democracy?”
  • 14:45 – 15:15: Thomas Renault (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)  “Community-Based Fact-Checking Reduces the Spread of Misleading Posts on Social Media”
  • 15:15 – 15:30: Léo Dumont (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CRH) “Text Classification on Historical Newspapers: How the 1848 June Days Uprising Was Covered in the Press”

15:30 – 16:00:  Coffee Break – 6th Floor

Session 3: AI Applied to Images – 15:45 – 17:00

  • 16:00 – 16:30: Mathieu Couttenier (ENS Lyon) “Artisanal and Small-Scale Mines in Africa: Where, When, and Why?”
  • 16:30 – 17:00:  Giulia Caprini (Oxford University) “Visual Bias”
  • 17:00 – 17:15: Clément Gorin (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES) “State of the Art: Economic Development Through the Lens of Paintings”
     

17:15 – 17:30  Closing Remarks – 6th Floor

  • Jean-François Caulier (Deputy Vice President for Strategy and Digital Innovations, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

 

Organizers: Lisa Chauvet (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES), Clément Gorin (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES), and Thomas Renault (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, CES)