Conference: Democracy in the Time of Generative AI

NEOMA Business School and Sciences Po médialab are co-organising a two-day conference dedicated to Artificial Intelligence.

Hosted by NEOMA’s AI, Data Science & Business Area of Excellence, this event will bring together leading experts from academia and the media to explore and debate the societal implications of AI.

As generative AI technologies increasingly influence political communication, media production, decision-making, and public opinion, the conference aims to foster dialogue on both the methodological challenges and the societal consequences of AI-related transformations. Conceived as a moment of collective transdisciplinary inquiry, it will examine how generative Artificial Intelligence, more specifically LLMs, are reconfiguring the dynamics that structure participation and engagement in liberal democracies, affecting both market and political systems.

By bringing into dialogue experts, practitioners, and researchers from behavioural sciences, media studies, sociology, design, computer science, statistics, computational linguistics, and complexity-oriented approaches, the conference aims to create a deliberative and reflexive space for public interest AI research, in which methodological rigour, philosophical reflection, technical expertise, and critical inquiry intersect with AI-related social science research.

The event will feature keynote talks and methodological master classes on advanced approaches to analysing AI-driven transformations. A highlight of the conference will be an evening roundtable on AI, Democracy, and News, where academics, journalists, and policy experts will discuss the impact of generative AI on media production, misinformation, and democratic resilience.