H‑AI TEAM

Team

The consortium brings together three research units — IHPST, ISIR (Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence) and THALIM — and some thirty researchers in philosophy, robotics, cognitive science, law, art history and theory, and literature. Four post-doctoral researchers join the project.

Work-package leads

Philippe Huneman

Scientific coordinator · WP1 lead

IHPST — CNRS / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

CNRS research professor and philosopher of biology. Trained in mathematics and then philosophy, he works on biological agency, explanation in evolutionary biology and ecology, and the relations between metaphysics and biology. His books include Métaphysique et biologie (Kimé, 2008) and Death. Perspectives from the Philosophy of Biology (Palgrave, 2023); he co-edits the series History, Philosophy & Theory in Life Sciences (Springer).

Mehdi Khamassi

WP2 co-lead

ISIR / SCAI — CNRS / Sorbonne Université

CNRS research professor at the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics, working at the interface of neuroscience, artificial intelligence and robotics. His research addresses decision-making and reinforcement learning in animals and robots, the role of social rewards in learning, and the ethical questions raised by autonomous machine decision-making. He is editor-in-chief of Intellectica and edited Neurosciences cognitives (De Boeck, 2021).

Cédric Paternotte

WP2 co-lead

Sorbonne Université — UFR de philosophie (SND)

Associate professor of philosophy at Sorbonne Université. His research in the philosophy of the social sciences addresses collective action, shared intention and group rationality, at the crossroads of philosophy of action, game theory and cognitive science.

Carina Prunkl

WP3 lead

Université d'Utrecht — chercheuse associée à l'IHPST

Philosopher specialising in the ethics and governance of artificial intelligence. Formerly a research fellow at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics in AI, she works on the impact of AI on human autonomy — distinguishing autonomy-as-agency from autonomy-as-authenticity — and on accountability mechanisms for automated systems.

Alexandre Gefen

Alexandre Gefen

WP4 lead · THALIM coordinator

THALIM — CNRS / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS

CNRS research professor (THALIM, Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS), literary theorist and intellectual historian, member of the Academia Europaea. Founder of Fabula.org and former deputy scientific director of CNRS Humanities and Social Sciences, he led the ANR CulturIA project on the cultural history of artificial intelligence and curated the exhibition The World According to AI at the Jeu de Paume (2025). Within H-AI TEAM he leads the work package on creative collaboration and convenes the seminar “With the Muses”. His books include L'Idée de littérature (Corti, 2021), Créativités artificielles (Les Presses du réel, 2023), Vivre avec ChatGPT (L'Observatoire, 2023), Humanités numériques (Hermann, 2026) and Histoire culturelle de l'IA (ed., CNRS Éditions, 2026).

Célia Zolynski

WP5 co-lead

Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne — IRJS

Professor of private law at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, specialising in digital law and intellectual property. Her work addresses the regulation of platforms and artificial intelligence, data protection and users' attention; she co-authored Pour une nouvelle culture de l'attention (Odile Jacob, 2024).

Raja Chatila

WP5 co-lead

ISIR — Sorbonne Université

Professor emeritus of robotics, artificial intelligence and ethics at Sorbonne Université and former director of ISIR. His research addresses perception and decision-making in autonomous robots, human–robot interaction and the ethics of intelligent systems; he chaired the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems.

Members

IHPST

Institut d'histoire et de philosophie des sciences et des techniques — CNRS / Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

  • Philippe Huneman
  • Matteo Mossio
  • Francesca Poggiolesi
  • Alberto Naibo
  • Pierre Wagner
  • Maud van Lier
  • Carina Prunkl — chercheuse associée
  • Célia Zolynski — IRJS, chercheuse associée

ISIR / SCAI

Institut des systèmes intelligents et de robotique, Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence — CNRS / Sorbonne Université

  • Mehdi Khamassi
  • Raja Chatila
  • Catherine Pelachaud
  • Mohamed Chetouani
  • Ismael Freire
  • Emma Gouné
  • Marceau Nahon

THALIM

Théorie et histoire des arts et des littératures de la modernité — CNRS / Université Sorbonne Nouvelle / ENS

  • Alexandre Gefen
  • Ada Ackerman
  • Antonio Somaini

Autres membres

  • Cédric Paternotte — Sorbonne Université
  • Daniel Andler — Sorbonne Université
  • Anouk Barberousse — Sorbonne Université
  • Simon Bréan — Sorbonne Université
  • Lionel Obadia — Université Lumière Lyon 2