CNPEN | Comité Consultatif National d’Ethique

Manifesto for digital ethics

The digital transformation of society challenges us to think about humanism in the digital age. The practice of digital ethics must be conceived in its specificity and its universal scope in order to develop a critical citizen reflection.

Composition

Member of the NPCDE
Raja CHATILA
Professor of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and Ethics at Sorbonne University. IEEE Fellow, Chair of the IEEE Global Initiative on the Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems, Co-chair of the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) "Responsible AI…
Member of the NPCDE
Gilles ADDA
CNRS research engineer, PhD in computer science for his work on linguistic modeling and automatic recognition, former director of the IMMI laboratory (Institute for multilingual and multimedia information).
Member of the NPCDE
Theodore CHRISTAKIS
Professor of Law at University Grenoble Alpes, Director of Research for Europe with the Cross-Border Data Forum, Senior Fellow with the Future of Privacy Forum and a former Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the New York University Cybersecurity Centre. He is Chair on…
Member of the NPCDE
Gwendal LE GRAND
PhD in computer science, former deputy secretary general of the CNIL, and head of activity at the EDPB (the group of European Data Protection Authorities). He coordinated the EDPB technology subgroup, was the EDPB liaison officer to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC27/WG5 which develops…
Member of the NPCDE
Laure COULOMBEL
MD, PhD, former senior scientist at Inserm (National Institute for Health and Medical Research), former associate editor-in-chief of the journal Médecine/Sciences, former consultant to the Agence de la Biomédecine, member of CCNE (2013-2021)
Member of the NPCDE
Laurence DEVILLERS
Professor of computer science applied to humanities and social sciences at Sorbonne University, director of research of "Affective and social dimensions of spoken interactions with (ro)bots and ethical issues" at LISN-CNRS (Paris-Saclay). Head of the AI chair: "HUman-…
Member of the NPCDE
Karine DOGNIN-SAUZE
General Delegate of the French Institute of Directors (IFA). Former member of the National Digital Council (CNNum), pilot of the group working on digital identity. President of the Interconnected association.
Member of the NPCDE
Gilles DOWEK
Researcher at Inria, professor at ENS Paris-Saclay and member of CNNum. He works on the formalization of mathematics, the processing of demonstrations, the physics of computing, aeronautical safety and teaching, epistemology and ethics of computer science.
Member of the NPCDE
Valéria FAURE MUNTIAN
Member of Parliament for the Loire, 3rd district. Member of the Finance, General Economy and Budgetary Control Committee, of the OPECST, of the parliamentary study groups "Digital economy of data, knowledge and artificial intelligence" and "Cybersecurity and digital…

Actualités

Opinion nr 6 Ethical issues of retroactive name change in digital scientific documents
There are many reasons why a person may one day wish to change their name or surname. In France, legal procedures allow people to request changes in their identity documents, and may use their new name, but only for the future.
CNPEN Opinion n°7: Generative artificial intelligence systems: ethical issues
Opinions 143 of the CCNE and 5 of the CNPEN "Health data platforms: ethical issues".
The development of digital platforms containing patient health data raises scientific, technical, legal, regulatory and governance issues and, by their very nature, necessarily ethical questions.
Joint opinion Opinion no.141 CCNE & Opinion no.4 CNPEN : Medical diagnosis and artificial...
Digital technology, and in particular artificial intelligence in health, opens up major prospects for transforming our health system, with the potential to significantly improve the quality of diagnosis and care for patients.
Event : Digital Ethics for Europe (June 20, 2022)
On the occasion of The Digital Assembly in Toulouse on June 21-22, the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) organizes a one-day event on June 20 to open a c
CNPEN - Ethical issues of conversational agents
Conversational agents (also called "chatbots") are digital systems capable of interacting with their users in natural language, both written and spoken.
CNPEN - Ethical issues regarding “autonomous vehicles”
OPINION 2 OF THE NATIONAL PILOT COMMITEE FOR DIGITAL ETHICS

Ethical issues regarding “autonomous vehicles”
National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics watch bulletin n°2
This bulletin is part of the monitoring work on the ethical issues related to the use of digital technology in the context of a health crisis carried out by the Pilot National Committee on Digital Ethics (CNPEN).
National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics watch bulletin n°3
This bulletin is part of the monitoring work on the ethical issues related to the use of digital technology in the context of a health crisis carried out by the National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN).

Publications

07/04/2020

National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics - Ethics watch bulletin n°1

Reflections and warnings on the ethical challenges of digital technology in acute health crises: This first newsletter of the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics presents the context…

Composition

Actualités

On the occasion of The Digital Assembly in Toulouse on June 21-22, the French National Pilot Committee for Digital Ethics (CNPEN) organizes a one-day event on June 20 to open a c

Publications