Towards Ethical Responsibility and Authenticity (TERA)
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Research

My research focuses on public ethics, organizational ethics and professional ethics. I pay particular attention to the following concepts: ethical sensitivity, ethical leadership, ethical decision making and ethical culture. My interests are rooted in critical theory, moral psychology and applied ethics.

My research program, which is supported by funding from organizations such as the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS), the Robert-Sauvé Institute for Research on Occupational Health and Safety (IRSST) and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), began during my doctoral and postdoctoral studies aimed at developing a scientific program in the field of ethics. This program, called Towards Ethical Responsibility and Authenticity (TERA), was enriched through the participation of contributors from several different disciplines, namely the humanities, social sciences and health sciences.

Since 2019, I have been interested in the ethical and social impacts of technology, as well as the transformations and innovations induced by technical systems (AI) observed in different sectors of human life. I have been running the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of AI and Digital Technologies (OBVIA) since 2019, which I have led since its inception. 

I am interested in new knowledge creation that is at the intersection of disciplines. My approach is based on interdisciplinary work which, for me, is essential to understanding the growing complexity of the modern world. The work on complex thinking by Edgar Morin inspires my thinking. The first formulation of complex thinking dates from 1982 in Edgar Morin’s book Science with Conscience (1982). This author found that, in the postmodern world, the fragmentation of knowledge often occurs within narrow disciplinary silos that limit our ability to grasp reality as a whole. This reality is increasingly complex and requires an understanding of the relationships between the whole and each part:

''The aim of method research is not to find a unitary principle for all knowledge, but to indicate the emergence of complex thought, which is not reduced to science or philosophy, but allows their intercommunication by operating dialogical loops.'' Edgar Morin.

 

Administrative functions

Since 2018, Lyse Langlois has been the Chief Executive Officer of the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technologies (OBVIA), a consortium consisting of 11 universities and 9 colleges and CEGEPs, 260 researchers and more than 90 partners.

From 2015 to 2019, she was the Associate Dean for Research at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Université Laval (UL) in Canada.

Lyse Langlois was also Director of the Institute for Applied Ethics/Institut d'éthique appliquée (IDEA) at UL from 2015 to 2022.

From 2006 to 2011, she was Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Industrial Relations at UL. Then, between 2014-2015, she was Department Head of the Department of Industrial Relations.

 Between 2001 and 2002, Lyse Langlois was the founder and first Chair of the CFER Research Partnership which promotes excellence in educational achievement and sustainable development. The Chair is aimed at empowering dropouts aged 16 to 18. It is housed at the School of Education, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières.

 

Expert Panels and Boards

  • Member of the Department for Cybersecurity and Digital Technolgies Experts Committee,  Quebec Gouvernement, advising the Minister on the elaboration of governmental policies and strategies, June 2022 until now  (Arrêté ministériel numéro 2022-02 du ministre de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique en date du 17 juin 2022). https://www.quebec.ca/nouvelles/actualites/details/creation-dun-comite-dexperts-en-matiere-de-cybersecurite-et-de-numerique-41740
  • Chair of the Organizational Ethics Committee, CHU de Québec (Quebec University Hospital) (2022-…)
  • Member, Laval University Palliative Care Steering Committe (2022 - …)
  • Member, Conseil d’orientation stratégique de l’Université Côte d’Azur et des Instituts 3IA, France. (2022-2026)
  • Member representing the Quebec Government,  Board of Directors, Montreal Center of International Expertise in AI. (2020-…)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Presses de l’Université Laval. (2015-…)
  • Member, Ethics Committee, Centre de services scolaire (School District) des Découvreurs. (2009-...)
  • Member, Advisory Committee Trustworthy AI Lab, Graduate School of Data Science, Seoul National University (SNU, South Korea).  https://trustworthyailab.snu.ac.kr/people
  • Member, International experts Committee, What is the future of humans as social beings as we co-exist and co-evolve with rapidly developing technologies? Sir Peter Gluckman.
  • Member, Group of experts, Global Forum for IA for Humanity (GFAIH) head by Bertrand Braunschweig & Malik Ghallab, INRIA.  International Panel on Artificial Intelligence (IPAI) G7, France, (2019-2020).
  • Member of the Research Committee of Future Skills, head by Wendy Cukier, professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ted Rogers School of Management, University of Toronto. Director, Diversity Institute.
  • Member, Management Committee, Forum IA Québec. (2019-2022).
  • Member, Steering Scientific Committee, Declaration of Montreal.  (2018-2020)
  • Member, Steering Scientific Committee, PULSAR-Université Laval, Initiative on collective sustainable health (2016-2019)
  • Member, Board of Directors,  Palleative Care Maison Michel-Sarazin, (2016-2019)
  • Member, Board of Directors, Régime de retraite des professeurs et professeures, Université Laval, Ethics Committee. (2016-2018)
  • Member,  Comité 211, Regional Information and Reference Center for vulnarable individuals. (2012-2014)
  • Member, Board of Directors,  Center of Leadership, Ethics and Value, Penn State University. (2005-2014)

 

Award of Excellence in Teaching

At the 2014-2015 Awards of Excellence in Teaching, the Digital Learning Resource Award was presented to Lyse Langlois, Full Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Industrial Relations, for the design of the simulator "Ethical analysis: the OPTIMEX case".

Laureate: Lyse Langlois

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