Columns - Polytechnique Insights

π Energy π Planet

Wired for change? Road transport electrification across the Global South

with Yao Amedokpo, Research Fellow at the LVMT Laboratory at École nationale des ponts et chaussées (IP Paris), Manon Eskenazi, Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Development, and Research Fellow at the City, Mobility, and Transportation Laboratory (LVMT) at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées (IP Paris)

Chips Act: can Europe catch up in the global semiconductor race?

with Pascal Vivet, Ph.D. from the Grenoble Institute of Technology and researcher at CEA-Leti on the technology co-optimization program (design, silicon component partitioning)

Should there be limits to academic freedom?

with Éric Guilyardi, Climatologist, CNRS Research Director and Member of the Pierre-Simon Laplace Institute

Beyond rationality: what happens when emotion drives geopolitics?

with Dominique Moïsi, Geopolitical Analyst and Founding Member of the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI)

Behind every algorithm: the unseen workers powering AI

with Antonio Casilli, Sociologist, Professor at Télécom Paris (IP Paris), and Research Associate at the Minderoo Centre for Democracy and Technology, University of Cambridge

The birth of academic freedom in the United States

with Hervé Dumez, Emeritus CNRS Research Director and Professor at Ecole Polytechnique (IP Paris)

Crisis management: how to ensure trust in these critical AI systems

with Sophie Lavaux, Executive Director of safe.brussels and Crisis Management Coordinator for Brussels, Yohann Garcia, Director of Data/AI Programs at Ecole Polytechnique Executive Education

Losing faith? France's shifting relationship with scientific authority

with Emiliano Grossman, Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po Paris and Director of the Center for Socio-Political Data (CDSP)

How governments are weaponising the private sector

with Cornelia Woll, Professor of International Political Economy at the Hertie School

When markets feed on limits: tariffs, monopolies, and the logic of scarcity

with Arnaud Orain, Research Director at École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)