Call for submissions for the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit

Context

The Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Paris on 10 and 11 February 2025. Organized by the Presidency of the French Republic, it will bring together Heads of State, experts, companies and civil society representatives to discuss the impact of AI on different sectors of society. The Summit will concentrate on “concrete actions to ensure that the global AI sector can drive beneficial social, economic and environmental outcomes in the public interest.”

The Summit will focus on five key themes: 

1. Public interest AI
2. The impact of AI on the future of work
3. Innovation and culture: technological innovation and its social benefits
4. Trust in AI
5. Global governance of AI

In this context, Sciences Po's Open Institute for Digital Transformations, created as part of TIERED, together with the Undergraduate College and the Graduate Schools, proposes to showcase the coursework of Sciences Po students from all programs, disciplines, and professional approaches on these themes, in order to contribute our institution’s perspectives to the Summit’s reflections.

The objective is to ensure that the voice of young people is heard in a constructive and critical way on the subject of AI, which will shape their future, before, during and after the Summit, through a number of events and actions.

Call for submissions

To this end, this call for submissions concerns all Sciences Po students, from all schools and programmes, who have carried out coursework in various formats, in connection with one or more of the themes of the AI Action Summit.

This call for submissions is open to students interested in sharing the results or reflections of their coursework, in order to address, through the intersection of their disciplinary or professional approaches, the challenges of one or more of the Summit's themes. Proposals will be selected on the basis of their academic quality and their potential link to one or more of the Summit’s themes.

A conference will be held at Sciences Po in mid-February 2025, during which students whose work has been selected will be invited to discuss their work with a Sciences Po researcher. The discussion will have an educational purpose for both the public and Summit participants. The event will be widely publicized, in particular among Summit organizers.

An “AI Summit” issue of Sciences Po's new review showcasing student work will also be published and distributed in early March 2025. Relevant work that could not be selected for the conference may also be featured in this review.

Submit your project

Please submit a one-page text (3500 characters maximum including spaces) in French or English presenting your work (collective project, work carried out as part of a course, paper, etc.), its link with the identified theme of the IA Summit and the methodological, epistemic, sectoral or critical contribution to understanding the issues of the theme. Please feel free to include any links which may be helpful.

The project may concern work completed during the 2022-2023 or 2023-2024 academic years.

Proposals must be sent by e-mail no later than Monday, 6 January 2025 to the following address: projet.tiered@sciencespo.fr. Please include your school and program affiliation. 

Proposals will be evaluated by a selection committee, whose conclusions will be shared with applicants at the end of January.

Contact information

If you have any questions, please contact the Secretary General of the Open Institute for Digital Transformations: carly.hafner@sciencespo.fr