Master Class - "Bias and disloyalty in AI: how to be trusted"

Algorithmic recommendations are part of our daily lives.

TikTok, Tinder, Deliveroo, Uber, Expedia, Booking.com, Spotify, Youtube, Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram.... feed their algorithms from the hundreds of billions of our interactions with them. We are two billion humans training them to influence us.

But who audits these algorithms, who checks that they do not cheat us, that they comply with the rules of law: competition, consumption, work and that they do not discriminate against us?

Benoît Rottembourg has been in charge of the Regalia pilot project at Inria since 2020. Regalia aims to provide a software environment to audit digital platform algorithms for use by French and European regulatory authorities.

A PhD in applied mathematics from Sorbonne University and a computer engineer from ENSIIE, he started his career as a teacher-researcher at ENSTA. He joined the private sector in 1998, successively leading the data science teams of the Bouygues group, Eurodécision and the Maersk group in Denmark. There, he developed pricing and revenue management software for the transport, distribution, media and leisure sectors.