Cécilia Darnault

Sustainable development and Artificial Intelligence: Law and Policy

Cédric Villani said that “what we will do with AI will be above all a societal choice”. In fact, at the era of digital revolution, AI represents both a risk and a wonderful opportunity for our societies. As a complex Human creation it is a risk due to the probability of reproducing our wrong behaviors and being used for “bad” purposes. Conversely, at the dawn of the 6th mass extinction, AI could be deployed to fight against poverty and inequality, or to promote education, environmental protection, peace and justice, etc. In fact, the question is “How to make artificial intelligence?”. To find an answer, I will dedicate my research to AI for social good, notably on the ethical and legal governance methods of AI, to promote it for social good but also to allow a responsible and sustainable development of AI.

A word about the thesis - SME against economic litigation

For a small or medium business, things go far beyond than just a simple economic organization. It is more about an idea, a project, a whole life, than simple economic problematics, whose daily management is harassing. Besides grasping the economic market within which he is evolving, the business manager also needs to stay aware of others concerns, in order to ensure the sustainability of his organization, such as its legal environment. The latter is usualy complex, underrated and at the origin of many risks for the company and its CEO, such as economic litigation. Consequently, "how can he avoids bankruptcy?" Accordingly to the last legislative amendments that express many important transformations of the civil procedure, the creation of new legal governance tools can help the entrepreneur to fight against economic litigation risks. How? By considering the fact that the amendments tend towards accountability, by establishing an obligation of risks prevention, and towards the empowerment of in house counsels by directly participating in the resolution of disputes, corporations has to enforce a legal governance that participates to the prevention of economic litigation.

The thesis proposes a guide for the legal governance of companies, by first introducing a vigilance plan alleviating any legal risk, and by recommending a private resolution solution through the recent raise of alternative dispute resolutions to avoid any economic litigation as a traditional civil lawsuit. Therefore, the thesis is an overview of all the options that entrepeneurs and business managers of small and medium companies have for a safe economic developement to ensure the sustainability of the organisation, in a perpetually evolving legal and social environment, going beyond traditional Justice.

Keywords : SME ; Economic litigation ; Legal Governance ; Legal risk management ; ADR ; Civil procedure.

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Scientific Responsabilities

Reviewer for International Conference: Workshop "AI for Social Good" NeurIPS 2019.