Antoine Boudreau LeBlanc

Antoine Boudreau LeBlanc, Ph.D. in Bioethics, is interested in translating biological theories (ecology and evolution) to organizational settings, including digital environments, data resources, and the sophistication of information flow mechanisms resulting from artificial intelligence (AI) and innovation ecosystems. Trained in biology (B.Sc.) and landscape ecology (M.Sc.), he brings new depth to governance dynamics.

He has just completed a Scientific Residency (postdoctoral type) founded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec at the Ministère de la Cybersécurité et du Numérique on the operationalization of ethical governance in AI. He is now conducting postdoctoral research at McGill University (IVADO research grant) on the same topic, this time applied to neuroscience and mental health in a clinical and urban context, in collaboration with CERC One Urban Health and the Chaire sur la Justice Sociale et l'AI. He has been in charge of the Ethics, Health and Megadata course at Université de Montréal since 2020 and is the current editor of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.

Fascinated by complexity (in science) and its application to governance ethics, he is interested in the social-ecological aspects of adopting approaches at the intersection of the human, animal and environmental dimensions and even more in the organizational arrangements for orchestrating this interdisciplinarity, in particular when integrating quantitative, qualitative and reflexive methods of investigation and mobilizing sophisticated information processing techniques, both in engineering and in philosophy. 

His research focuses on the techno-social-ecological dynamics that generate systemic injustices, epistemic violence and existential risks, and proposes ethical compromises that can be incorporated into risk analysis and strategic thinking to consolidate the programming and evaluation of private-public-academic consortia.