[Dottorcomp] Scientific and society challenges behind the confusing power of artificial intelligence

[Stefano Gualandi]

Dear all,
Please, read the announcement below regarding a seminar by Cèdric Villani
on "*Scientific and society challenges behind the confusing power of
artificial intelligence"* in Milan, next July, 10th.

Best regards,
Stefano


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*MATHEMATICS Colloquium of MILANO <https://www.mathcm.it/>*

*Thursday July 10, 2025* at *16.30* in Aula Magna GOBBI, Via Ulisse Gobbi, 5
<https://osm.org/go/0CjEhbJap?node=4048812289>, floor -1, of the Bocconi
University



*CÉDRIC VILLANI*

*Université Lyon 1*



will present the fourth colloquium of the inaugural cycle entitled

*Scientific and society challenges behind the confusing power of artificial
intelligence*


*ABSTRACT*: Since the 2012 breakthrough of neural networks, Artificial
Intelligence has made rapid progress and made the headlines all over the
world. In 2017, as a mathematician and Member of Parliament, I was in
charge of preparing the French national AI strategy, leading me to review
all the issues related to the status of AI in terms of science,
applications, society and political issues, as well as economic and
ecological challenges. The experimental nature of the field, the amazing
bluff and buzz which go with it, and the impressive amounts of money poured
into these techniques, make the case all the more tricky and interesting.
How can we scientists, experts and non-experts, cope with this special
situation?



*RECEPTION:* Following the colloquium, there will be a reception in same
building as the lecture.


*ABOUT THE SPEAKER:*  Cédric Villani is a French mathematician renowned for
his work in analysis, particularly in optimal transport, kinetic theory,
and partial differential equations. He received the EMS Prize in 2008, the
Fermat Prize in 2009, the Henri Poincaré Prize in 2009, and the Fields
Medal in 2010 for his groundbreaking contributions to the theory of the
Boltzmann equation and Landau damping.

Villani has held leading academic positions, including the directorship of
the Institut Henri-Poincaré and the honorary professorship at HEC Paris. He
is a member of both the French Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical
Academy of Sciences.