Lyse Langlois, Executive Director and Founder of OBVIA, Heads to Asia
Invited by the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Lyse Langlois will spend the coming year at Korea University, contributing to international reflections on the societal and ethical issues of artificial intelligence and digital technologies.
Her presence in Korea will strengthen the collaboration initiated two years ago with faculty members at this School. The relationship developed with OBVIA’s Cybersecurity and Societal Impacts division led to the signing of a memorandum of understanding in spring 2024. This alliance will take another concrete step forward in the coming months during the International Symposium on Cybersecurity and Privacy — a flagship event bringing together several leading international organizations this fall in Seoul. Lyse Langlois’s mission begins at this pivotal moment, marking the concrete implementation of this alliance on the international stage. She will chair an expert panel on the societal impacts of technology, while two other OBVIA researchers will also take part in this major event: Hugo Loiseau, Scientific Director for Public Sector Collaboration, will present a lecture entitled Regulation and Challenges of Emerging Cybersecurity Risks: Geopolitical Perspectives and Global Issues, and Sébastien Gambs, Co-Lead of the Law, Cyberjustice, and Cybersecurity Axis, will address the theme Privacy and Ethics Washing in Machine Learning.
During this pivotal year, interim leadership will be assumed by Tania Saba, Professor at the School of Industrial Relations at Université de Montréal and OBVIA’s Scientific Director for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
Since its creation in 2019, OBVIA has established itself as a key player in critical reflection on artificial intelligence and digital technologies. Drawing on the expertise and collaboration of its research community, the Observatory will continue to advance scientific knowledge on the societal impacts of AI and digital technologies through the work of its professors and researchers.
