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The fourth edition of The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics will be held on June 11-12, 2026, at Mines Paris. After the 2025 edition focused on threats to political systems and democratic resilience, PCAIDE is expanding its program this year to four major contemporary issues of artificial intelligence: health, work, social interactions, and the environment.
On June 11 and 12, Mines Paris will host the fourth edition of The Paris Conference on AI & Digital Ethics - PCAIDE - an international event dedicated to the ethical, social, political, and economic challenges of artificial intelligence and digital technologies.
Organized around a format combining invited lectures, academic presentations, panels, and poster sessions, the 2026 edition will focus on the concrete transformations caused by AI in several key areas: healthcare systems, work organizations, human relations, and environmental policies.
An edition structured around four major themes
The 2026 program will open on June 11 with a morning dedicated to AI and health. Discussions will focus on bioethical issues in the medical industry, accountability of AI systems in healthcare, definition and regulation of neurodata, and the uses of predictive digital phenotyping in mental health.
The announced speakers include Prof Jenifer Blumenthal, professor of medical ethics at Baylor College of Medicine, Saila Rinne, head of the AI in Health and Life Sciences unit at the EU AI Office, Prof Katrina Bramstedt, Global Head of Bioethics at Roche, as well as several researchers from CEA, the University of Cambridge, IBM Research, the University of Hertfordshire, and the NHS.
The afternoon of June 11 will be devoted to AI and work. Discussions will cover the macroeconomics of AI, the transformation of creative work by generative AI, opacity mechanisms associated with GenAI tools in professional environments, and new forms of responsibility in organizations when AI systems participate in decisions, productions, or work evaluation.
This sequence will bring together Dr. Antonin Bergeaud, Associate Professor of Economics at HEC Paris, Dr. Tom van Nuenen, lecturer and senior data scientist at UC Berkeley, Dr. Primavera De Filippi, Research Director at CNRS, Dr. Mar Carpanelli, Head of AI and Skills Research at LinkedIn, Jeremy Lamri, CEO of Tomorrow Theory and Les Émergences, as well as Dr. Hubert Étienne, Chairman of the PCAIDE Scientific Committee.
Debates on social interactions and the environmental effects of AI
The second day will begin with a morning dedicated to social interactions in the age of AI. The program will address attachment to conversational agents, co-evolution between humans and AI systems, the question of moral competence of models, educating children for autonomy in a technological environment, and the effects of affective personalization in human-machine interactions.
Prof Sven Nyholm, professor of AI ethics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, will open the day. Prof Matthias Scheutz, professor at Tufts University and director of Human-AI Interactions at the Tufts Institute for AI, will speak on the social appeal of generative AI. A discussion will also bring together Dr. Nataliya Kosmyna, researcher at MIT Media Lab and visiting research faculty at Google, Maria Melchior, research director at Inserm, and Prof Sylvie Delacroix, founder of the Centre for Data Futures at King's College London.
The afternoon of June 12 will focus on AI and the environment. The talks will address the impacts of data centers, AI-assisted climate modeling, the use of AI for physical climate risk analysis, environmental justice, and the central question: can AI really help solve climate change, and under what conditions?
Dr. Sasha Luccioni, AI & Climate Lead at Hugging Face and Chair of AI & Social Justice, will speak about the two sides of sustainable AI: AI in service of sustainability, but also the sustainability of AI itself. The final discussion will include Theo Alves, Partner AI & Sustainability at Ekimetrics and president of Data For Good, Dr. Golestan Radwan, Chief Digital Officer of the United Nations Environment Programme, Dr. Somya Joshi, Research Director at Stockholm Environment Institute, and Prof Matthias Scheutz.
A space for dialogue between research, industry, and public policy
Beyond the academic programming, PCAIDE confirms its positioning as an interdisciplinary dialogue space between researchers, institutions, industrial actors, ethics experts, and public officials. The aim: to go beyond a purely technical approach to artificial intelligence to question its deployment conditions, social effects, and collective implications.
This edition comes at a time when debates on AI are increasingly shifting to real-world uses: medical devices and sensitive data, work automation, conversational companions, environmental costs, model governance, and organizational responsibilities. By bringing together profiles from universities, research laboratories, tech companies, European institutions, and international organizations, PCAIDE aims to contribute to structuring these debates on an international scale.
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