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Vuarin Louis
A former Risk Manager, Louis Vuarin holds a PhD in management science from ESCP, which he defended at the end of 2020. A post-doctoral fellow at Telecom Paris (SES-I3) and a lecturer at Polytechnique (CRG-I3), his work focuses on organization theory, and in particular on epistemic processes, i.e. how individuals reason, produce knowledge and make sense of truth and justification in organizations.
Research topics
Management of new technologies.
My research concerns the management of new technologies (AI, IoT, 5G), focusing in particular on the organizational consequences of these technologies. The first part of my research examines the question of the (in)explicability of artificial intelligence (AI). Adapting to the specificities of AI, in particular its opacity, represents a managerial tour de force that requires a form of reflexivity on its epistemic practices (i.e. its capacity to collect, produce and disseminate justified information), for which few organizations are prepared today. While regulations (notably the European AI Act) are gradually reinforcing explicability and transparency requirements for organizations deploying and marketing AI, a number of questions remain unanswered: how to deal with the residual opacity of algorithms? How can decision-making processes be restructured to steer the development of these technologies? How should governance evolve to meet these demands?
It's also about understanding how organizations can integrate the growing resistance being expressed against these technologies. In particular, I study movements of resistance to innovation such as the one against 5G, which some are predicting as foreshadowing a broader groundswell of resistance to emerging technologies such as AI and IoT?
Secrecy and transparency in organizations.
In parallel, my second line of research focuses on secrecy in organizations, and in particular its socio-cognitive and epistemic properties explored through the study of secret organizations. In a way, this line of research also questions the difficulties created by the demands for transparency within organizations.
Teaching
Polytechnic Cycle
MIE 431
MIE 512A
MIE 630
Master PIC
Global Challenge