First Name / Last Name: Alexandre Bretel

Title or function: PhD Student

Affiliation (Lab, university, company) : Institut de Philosophie de Grenoble (IPhiG), Université Grenoble Alpes, “Ethics & AI” chair. In co-direction with the LIP6 –Computer Science Laboratory of Paris 6.

Email: Alexandre.Bretel@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr

Curriculum Vitae

• 2020-2021: PhD co-supervised by the University Grenoble Alpes with Thierry Ménissier and the Laboratory of Computer Science of Paris 6 with Jean-Gabriel Ganascia. Thesis topic: "The contribution of the philosophy of technology to the ethics of artificial intelligence: Study of the notion of responsibility applied to the technological civilization and the society of innovation".
• 2019-2020: Member of SorBotic in the Ethics & Society Division. SorBotic is an association that aims to promote and democratize robotics among students through projects, conferences and debates.
• November 2018 - May 2019: Internship at the Laboratory of Computer Sciences of Paris VI (LIP6) under the direction of Jean-Gabriel Ganascia. Activity: "Computational ethics: modeling ethical reasoning and formalization of ethical concepts".
• 2018: Graduate of the Master of Science, Technology, Health and Human and Social Sciences. Mention History and Philosophy of Science in a joint program between University Paris-Diderot (Paris VII) and École Normale Supérieure (ENS). Specialty Logic, Philosophy, History and Sociology of Sciences (LOPHISS-SPH). Thesis on "The implementation of ethics in artificial intelligence". Obtained with distinction Very Good.

Most important publications

• Responsible for the course on ethics of artificial intelligence in the AI Institute between 2019 and 2020. The AI Institute is a private training school on artificial intelligence, and more specifically on machine learning and deep learning. The school teaches the main computational and statistical tools in data science, and deals with several case studies with industry experts. This scientific training of excellence is led by François-Xavier Hussher, a graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure who has become a specialist in education, and Samy Lahbabi, a polytechnicien expert in the field of innovation and responsible for course development. The ethical component covered a wide range of applications, where it was even explicitly requested to include reflections drawn from the philosophy of technology.
• Publication: A. Bretel, Biotechnologies and artificial intelligence: towards convergence, 3rd YEBN Newsletter, July 2019.