Explorez les enjeux d’éthique de la recherche en sciences informatiques grâce à la dystopie.

5 septembre 2022

La formation « Éthique dans les sciences informatiques : écrivez votre dystopie » est destinée aux doctorants, étudiants et chercheurs en sciences informatiques, traitement automatique des langues et philosophie. Elle vise à créer un espace de réflexion et d’échanges pour explorer ensemble les problématiques d’éthique de la recherche à travers la science-fiction et aura lieu les 3 et 4 novembre 2022 au château du Montet, à Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy.

L’essor des nouvelles technologies et l’accélération des innovations soulèvent de nombreuses questions sociétales. Il est nécessaire pour les chercheurs de mener une véritable réflexion sur les enjeux éthiques de la recherche et ses applications et de développer un esprit critique.

Cette formation vise à explorer les questions éthiques des domaines de recherche des participants en réfléchissant à la manière dont la recherche est menée (éthique déontologique), puis à la façon dont ses résultats pourraient être détournés (conséquentialisme), en encourageant le sens de la responsabilité sociale, environnementale et scientifique. Les deux journées s’articulent entre théorie et pratique, réflexion et créativité.

  • Le premier jour, les participants seront accompagnés par des chercheurs du Loria, de la Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam et de la National University of Ireland de Galway, spécialisés dans le traitement automatique des langues, la science des données, la sémantique, l’intelligence artificielle et l’éthique. Un tour d’horizon des bases de la philosophie de l’éthique et une étude de cas seront suivis d’activités pratiques en groupe pour une réflexion riche en interaction et propice aux échanges entre disciplines.

  • La deuxième partie de l’atelier laisse place à l’imagination avec l’écriture d’un récit dystopique. Diane Ranville, scénariste et productrice au NEB studio, guidera les groupes dans leur processus créatif et l’élaboration de scénarios de science-fiction basés sur des sujets de recherche. La restitution des travaux des groupes clôturera ces deux journées.

Informations pratiques :

Soutiens financiers : Loria, projet IMPACT OLKi, école doctorale IAEM.

Programme complet :

Day 1

9h – 12h : Introduction covering the philosophical bases (Karën Fort), a case study on smart office setting (Sarah Carter) and the role of dystopia and science fiction to help thinking about ethical issues (Ilaria Tiddi).
Practical activities : creating the teams, brainstorming on research topics and their potential ethical issues.

12h – 13h30: Lunch

13h30 – 17h: Practical activities: reflecting on ethical issues, preparing a backbone scenario from a chosen situation/story

17h30 – 18h: Pitching

 

Day 2 Writing a dystopia

A professional writer will guide your team to create your own dystopian short story. Starting from your theme, you will identify your story’s moral debate, imagine your characters and explore dramatic situations. Then you will learn to structure your storyline in order to build momentum and meaning, before actually writing the final text and ultimately sharing it with the rest of the group.

9h – 12h:

  •     Introduction to creative writing & dystopia
  •     Characters’ moral debate
  •     Dystopian spiral

12h – 13h30: Lunch

13h30 – 17h:

  •     Unfolding the narrative
  •     Writing the story

17h – 18h30:

Sharing the stories (12mn/group including 5mn questions)

 

Intervenants :

Karën Fort, Mathieu d’Aquin, Maxime Amblard, Sarah Carter, Ilaria Tiddi, Diane Ranville, Marc Anderson

  • Karën Fort is Associate Professor at Sorbonne Université and does her research at the LORIA laboratory in Nancy. Her primary research interest is manual annotation for natural language processing (NLP), which she extended to crowdsourcing annotation, in particular using Games With A Purpose (GWAPs). She also developped an interest in ethics in NLP and co-organized the first colloquium on the subject in 2014, in France, followed by a national workshop (ETeRNAL 2015 and 2020) and a special issue of the TAL journal in 2016. She initiated the ethics and NLP French blog (http://www.ethique-et-tal.org/) as well as the survey on ethics in NLP (Fort & Couillault, 2016). She was co-chair of the first two ethics committees in the field (EMNLP 2020 and NAACL 2021) and is co-chair of the newly created ethics committee of the association for computational linguistics (ACL). She is also a member of the Sorbonne IRB. She teaches ethics in data science and NLP at Assas University in Paris, at IDMC in Nancy (NLP Master), and at the University of Malta.

 

  • Mathieu d’Aquin is a professor, researcher and a developer. His work addresses current challenges in bridging the gap between raw, heterogeneous, multi-source data, and exploitable knowledge. His research on the semantic web, linked data, knowledge engineering, ontologies, artificial intelligence, privacy and data ethics has been applied in many different domains.

 

  • Maxime Amblard is a Lecturer in Computer science – Natural Language Processing at Université de Lorraine. He is head of the master in NLP, Natural Language Processing, Programming and Algorithms. He conducts his research at Inria and Loria within the Semagramme Team, where he develops frameworks for Dialogue, Discourse and Semantics of natural language, including ethics in NLP and AI.

 

  • Sarah Carter is a scientist-ethicist interested in ensuring scientific progress always serves our communities and us. For the last 3 years, she has been a PhD candidate at the National University of Ireland—Galway. Her interdisciplinary PhD topic, between philosophy and data science, is researching ways to make more meaningful privacy choices on our smartphones. During her master’s degree at Utrecht University, she researched organoid drug screening for cystic fibrosis and the ethics of organoid biobanking. As an undergraduate at Mount Holyoke College, she conducted research in synthetic organic chemistry and organoid metabolomics. Sarah is also a musician and plays both double and electric bass. (website)
  • Ilaria Tiddi is an Assistant Professor in Hybrid Intelligence at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Knowledge In AI group). Her research focuses on creating systems that generate complex narratives through a combination of machine learning, semantic technologies, open data and cognitive theories, mostly applied in e-Science and robotics scenarios. (website)
  • Diane Ranville is a scriptwriter for comic books, webseries and digital media. She works at The NEB studio where she creates fantasy and scifi stories about topics such as the accountability of people with power, fighting oppression or sharing knowledge.

 

  • Marc Anderson is a post-doctoral researcher at LORIA, Université de Lorraine. He researches ethics of artificial intelligence and technology. He is interested in axiological approaches to ethics primarily – i.e. ethics proceeding from the notion of value – in AI and technology for work and industry, and in moving AI ethics beyond hype toward ground level results.