The main objectives of the chair are to create new knowledge on the following key issues:

- How to reconcile technological innovation and a sustainable and responsible society (i.e. at the service of humanity)?

- How to develop an optimistic vision of the technologies of the future, based on a positive contribution and associated with progress for humans and society?

- How to design responsible technologies that generate trust?

- How to think about the digital revolution in the service of sustainable and equitable growth?

- How to deploy European leadership in the development of an alternative model to the American and Chinese models, an alternative that combines sustainability, responsibility and trust at the heart of technology?

Research areas of the Chair:

The research work will be carried out around four lines of research, which are part of the third current of academic thought presented above, around a progressive vision advocating on the one hand the development of responsible technologies for the good of humans, and on the other hand the need for responsible digital innovation on the part of companies.

- Axis 1: responsible digital innovation: what measures?

This axis aims to define the concept of responsible digital innovation, to identify its dimensions and to establish the means to measure this concept by developing metrics. The concept of “digital social and human responsibility” (RSHN) of companies, more broadly, will also be promoted, defined and studied.

- Axis 2: how to develop responsible technologies “by design”?

Technologies and in particular algorithms are often opaque, sources of bias or discrimination. This axis aims to study the mechanisms that will generate trust among users and to develop technologies that are “responsible by design” that are more explainable, more transparent, more responsible to users.

- Axis 3: reinventing the future

Within this axis 3, reflections on the society of tomorrow in a digital world will be carried out. They will make it possible to think about a plurality of possible futures (in dialogue with and in counterpoint to the vision of a singular destiny carried by the transhumanism of Silicon Valley). This openness to possibilities makes it possible to re-appropriate the vision of the lights of technological progress for humans, while respecting the principle of equality but also with respect for nature and the environment on which the survival of human hope depends.

- Axis 4: governance of innovation and responsible technologies

This axis 4 aims to study the levels and mechanisms of governance (Europe, Nation, Enterprise) necessary to defend and develop a European model of responsible technologies and innovations, alternative to the current American and Chinese models. It is based on the idea that responsible technologies and digital innovation generate greater acceptability and ownership of technologies by users and are therefore sources of market growth.

The methodologies mobilized in the Good in Tech Chair will reflect transdisciplinarity. In computer science and engineering sciences, new technologies and algorithms “responsible by design” will be developed, in particular in the field of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things. In economics and management, structural and econometric equation models will be used to measure variables impacting user confidence and to build a scale of responsible digital innovation. Qualitative methods of non- or semi-structured interviews, surveys including interviews and participant observations, and visual processing and representation of textual data will be used in sociology and digital humanities. The priority sectors that will be treated in the Chair are health, mobility and work. These priorities are linked on the one hand to the presence in the Chair of involved researchers already working on these subjects, and on the other hand to the sectors presented as priorities in the Villani report on the French government's Artificial Intelligence strategy.

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