Idiap Partners with Wider Than the Sky for French-speaking Switzerland Screenings

As conversations around artificial intelligence intensify worldwide, the documentary Wider Than the Sky, directed by Valerio Jalongo, invites audiences to reflect on the deeper implications of this major transformation.

In recent years, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence has generated a wide range of reactions, from technological enthusiasm to ethical concern. Far from dystopian narratives or purely technical portrayals, the film approaches AI from a humanistic perspective. Through a variety of scenes and viewpoints, researchers, philosophers, and artists participate in a transversal exploration that goes beyond the technical dimension of AI to reveal its cultural and existential stakes.

It asks essential questions: what is intelligence? Can a machine develop empathy, creativity, or imagination? What future is shaping the relationship between humans and artificial intelligence? At the heart of the film emerges a decisive question: can a collective, conscious, and responsible use of artificial intelligence contribute to building a positive future?

Idiap is proud to participate as an official partner in two screenings of the film in the French-speaking Switzerland, each followed by a panel discussion, inviting the audience to continue the reflection and confront perspectives, doubts, and proposals regarding this technology that is already reshaping our present.

In Martigny – Tuesday, March 17
Panelists:

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Head of the Social Computing Group at Idiap Research Institute
Sébastien Fanti, Attorney at Law, holder of a CAS in Law & AI
Raffael Rodogno, Professor of Ethics at University of Lausanne and EPFL

In Geneva – Tuesday, March 12
Panelists:

Paola Merlo, Head of the Computational Learning & Computational Linguistics Group at Idiap Research Institute
Grégoire Barbey, creator of the podcast “IA qu’à m’expliquer”
Maurizio Pierini, Machine Learning Project Leader at CERN
Valerio Jalongo, the film director