Working language: French - English (simultaneous translation)

The colloquium The environmental dimension of AI for the right of future generations is part of the conference cycle entitled Thinking Transhumanism organized from 2018 to 2021 under the auspices of the French Commission for UNESCO. This cycle has allowed the organization of hearings, seminars and symposiums to understand the legal, ethical, sociological, but also economic and industrial dimensions of transhumanism, and to confront this new trend of thought to the cultures of the world.

This international and multidisciplinary meeting is organized in Caen within the framework of the Normandy Chair for Peace and the Quality Risks and Sustainable Environment Pole of the MRSH (University of CAEN), under the scientific responsibility of Emilie GAILLARD, Amandine CAYOL, Bénédicte BEVIERE-BOYER and Christian BYK.

This colloquium will alternate round tables and high-level presentation sessions around the environmental dimension of artificial intelligence through the duties and responsibilities of today's humanity towards future generations. How to think about the ethics of AI within reasonable environmental limits? What are the environmental consequences of AI? What philosophy, what sociology, what hard sciences to help transhumanism articulated around AI apprehended through its negative environmental externalities, including in the medium and long term?

The participation of speakers from different regions of the world will have for stake, through the diversity of cultures, a crossroads of multidisciplinary analysis on the future of the human being in the era of the globalization of AI and the deployment of transhumanism in the 21st century.

Organization

• Emilie GAILLARD, Senior Lecturer HDR, Sciences-po Rennes and general coordinator of the Normandy Chair for Peace, ARENES (UMR 6051). 
•  Amandine CAYOL, lecturer at the University of Caen Normandy, Demolombe Institute
•  Bénédicte BEVIERE-BOYER, lecturer at the University of Paris 8, Centre de recherches juridiques de Paris 8
• Christian BYK, Magistrate and President of the Science Ethics Committee of the French Commission for UNESCO, Secretary General of the International Association of Law, Ethics and Science

Partners

• Chaire d’excellence Normandie pour la paix (CNRS, Région Normandie, MRSH de Caen)
• ARENES (UMR 6051)
• Institut Demolombe (EA 967), Université Caen Normandie
• Centre de recherches juridiques de Université Paris 8 (CRJP8)
• Commission nationale française UNESCO – Programme « Penser le transhumanisme »
• Association internationale Droit éthique et sciences (IALES)

International Scientific Committee :

Céline CASTETS-RENARD, Professor of Private Law at the University of Ottawa, Chair in Globally Responsible Artificial Intelligence; Michèle DOBRE, Researcher at Cerrev and Professor of Sociology, University of Caen Normandie; Yaoming HSU, Professor at the Taiwan Political University; Nathalie NEVEJANS, lecturer-HDR in private law at the University of Douai; Béatrice PARANCE, professor of private law at the University of Paris 8; Wei WANG, lecturer at the University of Political Science and Law of China (UPCL).