General
Bernard Claverie (born October 7, 1955) is a French Scientist, Full professor at the Polytechnical Institute of Bordeaux [1]. After founding in 2003 and directing the Institut de Cognitique[2] for 6 years, he pushed it to the level of « Grande Ecole » by founding, in 2009, the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique ENSC[3][4], a French national higher education engineering school and a research center in applied cognitive sciences and cognitive technology.
Biography
Professor Bernard Claverie[5] obtained his PhD in human neurosciences in 1983 at the University of Franche-Comté[6] in Besançon (France) and received two HDR (Accreditation to supervise researches) in 1987, as Doctor es sciences and as Doctor es letters and human and social sciences at the University of Bordeaux II[7] in Bordeaux. He is also a graduate in Psychology with a licence degree in General psychology (1978), a master of Physiological psychology (1979), a diploma of advanced studies in Psychological sciences and education (1980) obtained at the University of Bordeaux II[8]. He also holds a master's degree in clinical and pathological psychology oriented towards neuropsychology, and is the director of a university diploma of medicine specialization in Neuropsychological sciences at the Faculty of medicine of Bordeaux.
He is Senior Research Scientist[9] at [10], a CNRS laboratory [11] (UMR-5218) located at Bordeaux University. He is known for his work in cognitive psychophysiology led during the first part of his carrier as Medicine professor at the University of Bordeaux II[12] and, since the beginning of his tenure as Director of ENSC[13], for his work on explainable AI and on Human enhancement. Bernard Claverie[14] is senior member of the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme d’Aquitaine MSHA[15].
Bernard Claverie is the author or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, chapters and books. He has been the director of 16 PhD thesis and has given more than 40 scientific and public guest lectures and conferences.
He is today senior expert for cognitive sciences and interdisciplinary research for the French Ministry of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Innovation. He also works with the Air warfare center of the French Air Force[16] and with NATO’s Allied Command Transformation as an expert on C2 Command and Control for the human dimension of AI enhancement and human-machine symbiosis[17].
He collaborates with industrial groups in the aerospace industry, in particular with Safran, where he co-founded the Cobotics study group, and with Thales, where he co-founded the HEAL joint laboratory (Human Engineering for Aerospace Lab). His current work with Thales Raytheon Systems focuses on augmented collaborative work within the C2 domain. He is a private pilot and a French Air Force (FAF) citizen reservist, with the rank of reserve colonel (RC), in the FAF Ader network.
Personal biography
Bernard Claverie is married (2004) and has two daughters (born 1994 and 1996). He shares his life between Bordeaux, where he leads his professional activities, and Etsaut, in his family home, in the French-Spanish boundary mountain area of the Basque/Béarn Pyrenees region.
Ideas and theoretical positions
Bernard Claveie defends a “human approach” to cognitive technologies. In particular, it replaces Artificial Intelligence in an evolutionary perspective as an extracorporeal extension of human cognition, of which it is only an enhancement tool or a simple instrument of power augmentation. He opposes the idea of possible future autonomy for machines. His work in intracerebral psychophysiology convinced him of the inconsistency of the idea of a simple connection between technology and thought, without the biological interface in the brain. Inspired by Agar, he recently developed an inventory of ethical positions in augmentation technology, organized into sealed compartments (individual health, progress for humanity, sustainable environment, post-liberal position for the future), each modulated by a continuum of positions (neoludism, regulation, “laissez-faire”, liberal report) whose defense of each borders on dogmatism and leads to actual incompréhensions and conflicts. Inspired by his academic training, both refered to (French-speaking) structuralism and cybernetic, he defends a scientific and reasonable constructivism for the future of humanity. Bernard Claverie has supervised some twenty doctoral theses in psychology, in cognitive science, or in neuroscience engineering.
Selected works
Claverie, Bernard (2005). Cognitique : science et pratique des relations de la machine à penser. Paris : L’Harmattan (ISBN 2-7475-9135-2) Claverie, Bernard (2010). L’homme augmenté : néotechnologies pour un dépassement du corps et de la pensée. paris : L’Harmattan (ISBN 978-2-296-13361-7) Sallaberry, Jean-Claude & Claverie, Bernard (2018). Introduction aux sciences humaines et sociétales. Paris : L’Harmattan (ISBN 9-782343-143576)
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