Student Citizen Convention on AI

April 4, 5, and 6, 2025

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Page on the AI Convention

(09 February 2025)

After months of preliminary work, we are officially launching the recruitment of students for the student citizen convention that will take place at the Bordeaux Métropole premises on the weekend...


Bordeaux Métropole to Host the AI Convention

(23 January 2025)

It’s now official, the Student Citizen AI Convention, organized between the Philosophia Chair and the Trustworthy AI Chair (thanks to the Bordeaux University Foundation), finally has its venue. The convention...

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The explosion of generative artificial intelligence usage is radically transforming not only the way we must teach but also the content that needs to be taught. While it offers advantages such as learning autonomy, it also threatens critical and reflective capacities, as well as essential skills like writing and text comprehension. This societal transformation also impacts many professions, which will evolve, and for which we must already anticipate what skills will be essential.

What if, during this period of abrupt transition, we proposed that students become the actors of their own education?

The “Citizen Convention” tool is a fantastic way to allow students to take ownership of these crucial issues for their own future. Through expert hearings and debates, this convention aims to draft a series of recommendations for the transformation of teaching, educational methodologies, and targeted skills regarding the use of AI, while also educating students on the underlying democratic principles.

These recommendations will be officially presented, notably to Sciences Po Bordeaux and ENSEIRB-Matmeca (more to join us).

If you are a student and interested, send me an email!

Organizers

Sciences Po Bordeaux, université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, Fondation Bordeaux Université, Bordeaux Métropole

The Philosophia Chair, which is being set up as part of the Philosophia Fund (contact: Mazarine Pingeot), is promoting an annual student citizens’ convention and has chosen AI as its first theme!

The Fondation Bordeaux Université has involved the IA Chair, Digne de confiance (contact: Laurent Simon), which is co-piloting this first edition, as well as the Sciences, Philosophy, Humanities laboratory (contact: Cédric Brun) and various training components from the different institutions on the Bordeaux campus (1st and 2nd cycles at Sciences Po Bordeaux, master’s degree in AI at the University of Bordeaux, DSPEG college at the University of Bordeaux, ENSEIRB-MATMECA computer science department (Bordeaux INP), doctoral schools, master’s degree in philosophical research at the University of Bordeaux Montaigne, etc.). ). Finally, Bordeaux Metropole is supporting and hosting the event

We expect more than a hundred motivated students for a weekend of debates and citizen recommendations!

Venue of the Convention

Bordeaux Plan - Bordeaux Métropole

The convention will take place in the large amphitheater of Bordeaux Métropole (Esplanade Charles-de-Gaulle, Bordeaux) and in the reception halls around it.

Working Groups

The hundred students from different backgrounds will gather in working groups based on the issues:


Provisional Schedule

Friday, April 4, 2025
Heure Session Intervenant
18:00 - 18:30 Welcome and official opening --
18:30 - 18:45 General presentation of the Weekend --
18:45 - 19:45 Strength of a Citizens' Convention Thierry Pech
20:00 - 22:00 Reception & Group Formation Organizing team
Saturday, April 5, 2025
Heure Session Intervenant
08:45 - 9:00 Welcome --
09:00 - 10:00 Conference: How the brain learns and memorizes Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
10:00 - 11:00 Limits and promises of AI, ethics, regulatory framework Raja Chatila
11:00 - 11:15 Coffee break --
11:15 - 12:45 Group ateliers --
12:45 - 14:00 Lunch --
14:00 - 18:15 Group ateliers --
18:15 - 18:30 Coffee break --
18:30 Sending pre-syntheses to groups Teams
18:30 - 19:30 Conference: Impacts of AI in industry and society Henri Verdier
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner --
Sunday, April 6, 2025
Heure Session Intervenant
08:45 - 9:00 Welcome --
09:00 - 10:00 Group work: Debate and recommendations for amendments
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break --
10:15 - 12:30 Group work: Integration of amendments and debates
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch --
13:30 - 16:00 Plenary: Presentation of recommendations & votes Teams
16:00 - 16:30 Closing plenary --

With Mazarine Pingeot, that was at the initiative of this event, we want to give special thanks to Cathel Bousquet (Bordeaux University Foundation), Cédric Brun, the students of Sciences Po Bordeaux, Arnaud Lévy, Samuel Attia.


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