Generative AI Everywhere - Hopes, Fears, Trust, Understanding, Regulation
Generative AI is spreading rapidly worldwide, both in private use and in corporate environments. Among many novel promises, it ostends friendly assistance to the programmer, immediate realization of artwork and music for the creative, tailor-made teaching for anyone connected to the internet, universal remote diagnostic medicine, and of course optimisation of business processes and heightened efficiency. However doomsayers such as Nobel prize winner Hinton warn of the inevitability of runaway intelligence, and the extinction of humanity.
This Causerie is about the social emotions projected onto AI, namely Hope, Fear, and Trust. We will frame the process by which generative AI now percolates from research into widespread use in society, and offer participants an opportunity to debate the arguments for boom and gloom, safety real and perceived, risks and safeguards.
About the speaker
Edmund Ronald is a graduate of Sup Télécom in Paris, he was a grad student at King’s Cambridge, and did his Ph.D thesis at Ecole Polytéchnique, on evolutionary neural network training for control applications, and was one of the founders of the Artificial Evolution conference series. He has been a science journalist, and has taught AI at Paris 7 and Paris 8 Universities. Edmund has authored a number of epistemological papers on Alife and AI.
Details
Date and Time: Thursday, 13th of November 2025 - 7 PM
Location: Sony CSL, 6 rue Amyot, 75005 Paris
Registration: here