Young scientists speak out on their relationship with AI
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“L’Heure H” (H Hour) is a new weekly podcast from EPFL’s College of Humanities that gives voice to the new generation of scientists, exploring their relationship with AI technologies.
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live, think, access information, and create. The younger generation, and young scientists in particular, are the first to be directly exposed to these profound changes. How are they experiencing in their daily lives, their studies, and their research? What developments, opportunities, or risks do they see? What motivations and anxieties do these changes create for them?
The aim of this podcast, hosted by journalist Anne Laure Gannac, is to enable this new generation to express their views on these technologies. Each episode introduces us to a young researcher or student and the reality they face in their private their current or future professional lives through the lens of their interactions with AI.
Tomorrow’s generation of scientists, whether in the private or public sector, must make their work on AI technologies known, along with their needs, concerns and expectations. It is essential, if we are to project ourselves into the future world, that this generation feels it has a stake in the decisions currently being taken.
The episodes, each between 35 and 60 minutes, are released every Wednesday at noon during the 2025 EPFL academic Spring semesters (February-May) on the main listening platforms.
Once a month, the meeting is recorded in public in the hall of EPFL's Rolex Learning Center, with guests from a variety of fields, including sustainability, philosophy, and art. It's an opportunity for the public, both in person and via YouTube, to ask questions on specific themes, such as the relationship between AI and history, AI and climate, and AI and information.
In December, a symposium entitled “L'heure H” will invite a panel of guests, in collaboration with EPFL's AI Center, to discuss the themes addressed over the course of the year.
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Available and upcoming episodes:
- EP01 - Entre Histoire et IA, quelle collaboration possible et souhaitable ? (Between history and AI: What collaboration is possible and desirable?)
Recorded in public with Frédéric Kaplan, researcher in digital humanities and director of the CDH, and Béla Kapossy, historian and former director of the CDH.
- EP02 - L'IA au quotidien avec Agatha Duzan(AI in everyday life with Agatha Duzan), data science student and president of the Safe AI Lausanne association, March 12, 2025.
“It's very stimulating to say that there are still a huge number of things to discover in AI and that it's my generation that's going to be working on these issues.”
- EP03 - AI in everyday life with Valentin Hartmann, researcher in AI-based language learning
“Our enthusiasm for AI's capabilities must not cause us to lose sight of their environmental cost.”
EP04 - L'IA au quotidien avec Alexandre Sadeghi, (AI in everyday life with Alexandre Sadeghi), researcher in architecture and urban planning and founder of the Astroid architecture and design agency.
“What will make the difference in the architecture and urban planning professions is, in addition to skills, looking at AI tools with curiosity and knowing how to get the best out of them.”
- EP05 – IA et climat : amis ou ennemis?(AI and climate: friends or enemies?)
Recorded in public with Tom Beucler, Assistant Professor in Environmental Data Science at UNIL, Erwan Koch, Director of the Center of Expertise on Climate Extremes (ECCE) at UNIL and Manuel Cubero-Castan, digital project manager at EPFL.
- EP06 (online Wednesday April 9) – L’IA au quotidien avec Arthur Wuhrmann (AI in everyday life with Arthur Wuhrmann), data science student and member of the Safe AI Lausanne group
“A better understanding of AI-related tools is helping me to steer my career in the right direction”.
- EP07 (online Wednesday April 16) – L’IA au quotidien avec Chiara Candiotti (AI in everyday life with Chiara Candiotti), Communication Systems student
“What interests me is how the brain will cognitively adapt to the use of AI”
- EP08 (online Wednesday April 23) – L’IA au quotidien avec Cris Darbellay (AI in everyday life with Cris Darbellay), life sciences student and co-founder and president of the MAke Designing Life With AI project.
“AI allows me to be like a hunter with a spear, in the Stone Age.”