Chair: Philippe Aghion
Between structural opposition and reciprocal attraction, AI and culture maintain chaotic links. If (re)conciliation is necessary, the law must encourage the emergence of an ethical and competitive market, respecting the value chain and therefore remunerating the cultural content used by AIs.
Alexandra Bensamoun is a professor of law at Université Paris-Saclay, specializing in digital regulation and intellectual property law. She created and directs the M2/LLM program in Fundamental Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies (PIFTN), a joint program with Université Laval (Quebec) and Université ade Madrid (Spain). She is the author of numerous individual and collective research projects, including a Traité collectif sur le droit de l'intelligence artificielle (LGDJ/Lextenso,2nd ed., 2022). Involved in various national and international research networks, she is a member of the executive committee of ALAI (and vice-president of Afpida, the French branch) and of the DATAIA Institute, the AI Cluster of the University of Paris-Saclay. An expert for Unesco and various authorities, "qualified personality" at the CSPLA (Conseil supérieur de la propriété littéraire et artistique, French Ministry of Culture), she was part of the French interministerial commission on artificial intelligence that submitted its report on French AI strategy, IA : notre ambition pour la France, in March 2024, to the President of the Republic. She has produced numerous official reports on digital, and in particular on artificial intelligence, at the request of the French Minister of Culture, on the implementation of the European AI Regulation (Dec. 2024) and on remuneration models for cultural content used by AI (June 2025).
