The latest lateral expansion of private #AI labs / #tech #giants is into #economics! What an honour for the profession to be finally considered! (sarcasm) The trend is concerning: first, we witnessed the AI brain drain from CS to big tech (expected for PhDs, less expected for top professors) >>

New VOILA! seminar tomorrow 2/4 4PMCEST! Lea Samek @oecd-ocde.bsky.social presents "How do #firms and #sectors engage with #AI? #Innovation, #skills and use"-a panoramic take on #artificialintelligence & the #Economy! Register: enquetes.univ-cotedazur.fr/index.php/27...! @univcotedazur.bsky.social

New season of VOILA! sem begins 5Feb 4PM (Paris time) w/ Heather Zheng (Director SAND Lab uchicago) talk: 'Experiences and lessons from protecting human creatives using #adversarial #AI tools'. Join us to discuss how #Glaze and #nighshade help constrasting the Gen-AI steal&flood- Register and share!

What is the relationship between #robots & #innovation? Are #vision-language-models going to transform the #industry? You are still in time to register to my seminar taking place online&in-person TODAY (Mon 16/12 2-3PM Paris time): link below or in the poster! #AI #cotedazur

Final lecture today of my #AI & #societal #transformation course in #Nice: we discussed AI ethics & rebuttals of tescreal views, AI as an acceleration engine to harm #democracy, AI #policy & #geopolitics, AI& #sustainability (w/ ref to @sashamtl.bsky.social @strubell.bsky.social work). Sneakpeek!

Not enough? Here the abstract and the poster: "Discussions of AI and technology policy more generally have often elided the role of the state. This elision is a product of the shifting politics, institutions and infrastructures around this industry but it does not reflect an honest accounting...

for instance, this coming Thursday (12/5) we hold another seminar in our VOILA! series, with @susglickman.bsky.social presenting her work on "The #Politics of #Exponential #Growth: #AI, #Hardware and #Industrial #Policy" register and join us, it will be cool!

Did you already read @ainowinstitute.bsky.social report on #European #AI #Industrial #Policy? (W/ @ceciliarikap.bsky.social @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social &more) Here in Nice @leevisaari.bsky.social presented it to the UCôteD'Azur AI community in a cozy festive setting! Best present would be...

Tomorrow the SophI.A Summit begins! It is the biggest conf on #AI in the #tech #cluster of the Cote d'Azur! I co-organise a panel on #European AI technological #sovereignty, w/ speakers from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social (@leevisaari.bsky.social) #ARM France, SKEMA Business school >>

... the impact on labour (mostly new results on workplace automation w/ genAI, plus stressing the theme of hidden/exploited AI-last mile labour), & finally #AI and #scientific #discovery! Sneak peek at the slides attached :) next class: industrial policy, environmental toll, #AI & #democracy!

We conclude VOILA! S2 w/ a talk by Aurelie Bugeau (Bordeaux) the 19 Dec on 'What are the #environmental impacts of #AI?' (in French w/ eng live caption) -Check the whole programme here: univ-cotedazur.fr/efelia-cote-... - Season 3 begins early 2025 w/ @jackstilgoe.bsky.social already on the lineup!

A little jump to 5 Dec (4-6PM Paris time), and @susglickman.bsky.social will present (online) 'The #Politics of #Exponential #Growth: #AI, #Hardware and #Industrial #Policy' to ground all the debate with a healthy dose of history of #tech

Here, I advertise the upcoming seminars, for your joy! In the posters you find a QR code to register- Next VOILA! is a special crossover with EFELIA Hackathon Soc[IA]l featuring @leevisaari.bsky.social from @ainowinstitute.bsky.social discussing 'Reorienting #European #AI and #innovation #policy'

Inria and I3S campus - Uni Côte d'Azur in #Sophia #Antipolis!