
ONLINE LECTURES / PANELS
Organised by the French Embassy
and the French Institute of Israel
with the support of
the French Institute Paris


Artificial Intelligence
and
its ethical issues
A series of panel discussions gathering Israeli and French experts to explore the world of artificial intelligence and answer your questions
2020/2021
Starting from July 1st

ABOUT US
Everything you always wanted to know about artificial intelligence and its ethical issues!
The Embassy of France, the French Institute of Israel and their partners are pleased to offer a series of panel discussions that will explore the current issues and challenges raised by the development of artificial intelligence and its diffusion in our societies.
Based on a dialogue between French and Israeli experts on artificial intelligence, these events will be open to a non-specialist audience. They will cover all possible approaches to AI, its challenges, its perspectives, in different fields: health, defense, automotive, gender, art…
Renowned personalities, academics, intellectuals, scientists, researchers and artists both from France and Israel have agreed to participate to this series of panel discussions which will start in July 2020 and continue throughout the end of the year and the beginning of 2021.
SPEAKERS

Flora Vincent
Researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
Head of the National School of Engineering in Cognitic (ENSC), specialized in artificial intelligence and applied cognitive sciences

Coordinator of the research component of France’s AI plan


Head of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Studies Centre, Tel Aviv University, Chairman of Israel space agency and Israel national council for R&D, Author of Israel's artificial intelligence strategy
Mathematician, Fields medal laureate in 2010, Doob Prize laureate in 2014, Member of the French Parliament, Author of France's artificial intelligence strategy

ONLINE
LECTURES
These first two online lectures aim to present artificial intelligence, its functioning and its development in order to give to the audience some keys for a better understanding of AI.

A.I.
from A to Z
Speaker:
Benoît Le Blanc
Benoît Le Blanc will offer a glossary introducing the terms of computer science that are necessary for understanding artificial intelligence.
Lecture in English
Wednesday July 1st, 2020
6pm / Israeli time
FREE ACCESS
A.I: realities
and myths
Speaker:
Bertrand Braunschweig
Bertrand Braunschweig will explain what is possible to do with AI nowadays and what still comes under science fiction.
Lecture in English
Thursday July 9th, 2020
6pm / Israeli time
FREE ACCESS

ONLINE PANEL DISCUSSIONS
French and Israeli visions
on Artificial Intelligence
What is the best strategy to support the development of AI?
Speakers:
Prof. Cédric Villani
Mathematician, Fields medal laureate in 2010, Doob Prize laureate in 2014, Member of the French Parliament, Author of France’s artificial intelligence strategy
Prof. Maj. Gen. (ret.) Isaac Ben-Israel
Head of the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber Studies Centre, Tel Aviv University, Chairman of Israel space agency and Israel national council for R&D, Author of Israel's artificial intelligence strategy
Cedric Villani and Isaac Ben-Israel will introduce and discuss French and Israeli strategies on artificial intelligence.
Online lecture in English
Thursday, September 10, 2020
7pm / Israeli time
FREE ACCESS


Artificial intelligence
and gender bias
Is artificial intelligence
a source of inequality?
Speakers:
Flora Vincent
Researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel
Aude Bernheim
Researcher at the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
The authors of the book “Artificial Intelligence, not without her!”, prefaced by Cédric Villani
MORE ABOUT THE LECTURE >> CLICK HERE
In English
Both virtually on Zoom
and at the French Institute of Tel Aviv Rothschild 7
Monday, April 26, 2021
6pm / Israeli time
FREE ACCESS
PANELS
Date tbc
Grand opening:
should we feel threatened by the development of AI?
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Date tbc
AI and health
To be confirmed
Date tbc
AI and defense
To be confirmed
Date tbc
AI and automotive
City zone, Kiryat Atidim
Date tbc
AI and art
To be confirmed


Toutes les vidéos
Toutes les vidéos


Artificial intelligence and gender bias - 26/04/2021

French and Israeli visions on Artificial Intelligence: what is the best strategy?

A.I: realities and myths - Bertrand Braunschweig - July 9th, 2020
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Join the AI lectures
Starting from July 1st, 2020