Joffrey Becker

Joffrey Becker obtained a PhD in social anthropology and ethnology from the EHESS, and is a research associate of the anthropology of life team at the Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale (Collège de France). His research focuses on robotics and artificial intelligence, and more particularly on the relationship between humans and machines. Initially interested in the construction procedures of humanoid robots and the mental processes they bring into play in interaction situations, his work today aims to better understand how so-called intelligent systems question our models on an ontological, interactional and societal level, regardless of their form. In a collaborative, interdisciplinary, and critical perspective, the challenge is to study how objects resulting from robotics and artificial intelligence transform relationships and practices in order to better anticipate their effects.