Joffrey BECKER | Ph.D
Junior Professor Chair
ENSEA - ETIS (UMR 8051, CY Paris Université, ENSEA, CNRS)

Social Anthropology Laboratory | Collège de France

Joffrey Becker trained in social anthropology at EHESS (M.A, Ph.D) and was a member of the SPEAP program created by Bruno Latour at the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (M.A). He holds a teaching chair at the École nationale supérieure de l’électronique et de ses applications (ENSEA), and his research is conducted at the Neurocybernetics Team of the ETIS Lab (UMR 8051, CY Paris Université, ENSEA, CNRS). Joffrey Becker is also a member of the Psyphine interdisciplinary research group (Université de Lorraine, Neurodegenerative Diseases Institute Bordeaux). He worked with various research teams from the public and private sectors (CNRS, MIT, INRIA, Google, Orange, ENSAD, Airbus). Becker’s research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence, and more particularly on the relationship between humans and machines. It aims to better understand how so-called intelligent machines question our models on an ontological, interactional and societal level, regardless of their form. In a collaborative, interdisciplinary and sometimes critical perspective, the challenge is to study how objects resulting from robotics and artificial intelligence reconfigure relationships and practices. This work has led to numerous public presentations, the publication of articles and book chapters, and the writing of a book entitled Humanoïdes, Expérimentations croisées entre arts et sciences, published in 2015 by the Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest.
Les recherches de Becker portent sur la robotique et l’intelligence artificielle, et plus particulièrement sur la relation entre humains et machines. Elles visent à mieux comprendre comment les machines dites intelligentes questionnent nos modèles au niveau ontologique, interactionnel et social, quelle que soit leur forme. Dans une perspective collaborative, interdisciplinaire et parfois critique, l’enjeu est d’étudier comment les objets issus de la robotique et de l’intelligence artificielle reconfigurent les relations et les pratiques. Ces travaux ont donné lieu à de nombreuses présentations publiques, à la publication d’articles et de chapitres d’ouvrages, et à la rédaction d’un livre intitulé Humanoïdes, Expérimentations croisées entre arts et sciences, publié en 2015 aux Presses Universitaires de Paris Ouest.

Recent posts

Becker Joffrey, 2021, “Anthropology, AI and Robotics”, in A. Elliott (ed.), The Routledge Social Science Handbook of AI, Abingdon-on-Thames, Routledge

Becker Joffrey, 2021, "Living with robots / Living in robots: The mechanics of social ties", in J. Pellissier, M. Trouilloud, P. Menecier (ed.), Young robots and old people: Caring and new technologies in geontology, Social Chronicle

Becker Joffrey, 2020, "Designing Anthropomorphic Machines: Ethnography of Design Practices in Social Robotics", Networks, Dossier Ethnographies of conversational agents, no. 220-221, pp. 223-251

Keywords

Robots / Artificial Intelligence / Society | STS / Experimentation / Mixed methods | Europe / United States