Québec Day at Princeton – Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Public Policy: Challenges and Perspectives

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Artificial Intelligence is transforming our society at an unprecedented rate. What are the ethical implications? How can public policy regulate innovation while protecting the public interest? Join a panel of experts and researchers for an in-depth conversation on the issues that will shape AI governance in the years to come.

Speakers:

Joé T. Martineau, HEC Montréal

Jonathan Barry, Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute

Mihir Kshirsagar, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University

Moderator:

Christy Wampole, French and Italian, Princeton University
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Speaker Bios

Jonathan Barry is a leader in AI policy and governance, currently serving as the Director of Policy to Professor Yoshua Bengio at Mila – Québec Artificial Intelligence Institute(https://mila.quebec/en). In this role, he focuses on the critical intersection of policy and AI safety, working to ensure that humanity benefits from the adoption of safe AI.

His expertise has shaped international AI initiatives at organizations including the UN, OECD, and the World Economic Forum, and he was a contributor to the International AI Safety Report.

Jonathan brings this AI focus to a deep background as a seasoned policy strategist. He has extensive experience at the highest levels of government in both Canada and the United States, having served as a trusted advisor to two Canadian Prime Ministers and two Ministers of National Defence. He has also managed over 20 political campaigns across North America. Jonathan holds a Master in Public Affairs from Princeton University.
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Mihir Kshirsagar runs CITP’s first-of-its-kind interdisciplinary technology policy clinic(https://citp.princeton.edu/programs/citp-tech-policy-clinic) that gives students and scholars an opportunity to engage directly in the policy process. Most recently, he served in the New York Attorney General’s Bureau of Internet & Technology as the lead trial counsel in cutting edge matters concerning consumer protection law and technology and obtained one of the largest consumer payouts in the State’s history. Previously, he worked for Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP and Cahill Gordon Reindel LLP in New York City on a variety of antitrust, securities and commercial disputes involving emerging and traditional industries. Before law school he was a policy analyst at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, D.C., educating policy makers about the civil liberties implications of new surveillance technologies. Kshirsagar attended Deep Springs College and received an A.B. from Harvard College in 2000 and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006.
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Joé T. Martineau is Associate Professor of Organizational Ethics in the Department of Management and holds the Chair in Organizational Ethics and AI Governance at HEC Montréal(https://ethique.hec.ca/en/). She is co-leader of the strategic research Regroupement 5 on Ethics, Inclusion and Indigenous Engagement in AI of the IVADO IAR3 program. Her research, teaching and organizational interventions focus on ethics and governance issues affecting private, public and healthcare organizations. In particular, her work has led her to reflect on the composition and effectiveness of ethics programs and the diversity of ethics management practices in organizations, on the various factors that influence ethical judgment, decision-making and behavior of organizational actors, and the ethical issues associated with the digital transition and the development and deployment of artificial intelligence in organizations.

Joé T. Martineau also holds an adjunct professorship at the St-Jean Campus of the University of Alberta, and she is a regular member of the International observatory on the societal impacts of AI and digital technologies (OBVIA), an associate member of the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit at the Clinical Research Institute of Montréal (IRCM), a regular member of the Applied Ethics Institute (IDÉA) at Université Laval, and a co-researcher at the Ethics Research Center (CRÉ) at Université de Montréal.
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Christy Wampole joined the department as Assistant Professor of French in 2011. She received her Ph.D. in both French and Italian from Stanford University in 2011. She has published various articles, translations, and book reviews in MLN, the Modern Language Review, The New York Times, The New Yorker, L’Espirit créateur, Small Axe, The French Review, Magazine littéraire, Quaderni del ’90, and Yale French Studies.

Her specific areas of focus are nineteenth-, twentieth-, and twenty-first-century French, Francophone, and Italian literature, especially the novel and the essay, with a special interest in feminism, ecology, and media. The intersection of philosophy and literature is central to her work as a researcher and teacher. She has written on topics including botany and the metaphor of rootedness, masculinity, drones, photography, the Minitel and Internet, irony, realism, essays and essay-film, journalism, and gender issues in France and the United States.