IMprobable panel

FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BODY INTELLIGENCE

JULY 7th. 2026
01:30PM

ESCP, Paris & ONLINE

FROM ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO BODY INTELLIGENCE


panel

1:30–3:00 PM

​As artificial intelligence increasingly shapes how we think and learn, a crucial question emerges:

What does the body know that algorithms don't?

​This conversation gathers voices from neuroscience, somatic practice, performance art, and professional dance to explore a paradox — that embodied intelligence and artificial intelligence may not be opposites, but potentially complementary ways of knowing.

​What if the question isn't "can AI replace the body's wisdom?" but rather "how do we design learning and creation where both intelligences strengthen each other?" Together, they'll probe how to honour what the body knows while leveraging what machines can do, and what becomes possible when we stop seeing them as competing forces.


the speakers

Pr. John Mitchell (Stanford University)

Faculty Director, Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (Stanford "d.school"), professor of computer science. He was previously Stanford Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning

Pr. Sylvain Bureau (ESCP Business School)

Scientific Director of the Improbable Chair by Galeries Lafayette, is a normalien and agrégé in economics with a PhD from École Polytechnique. Co Founder of the Art Thinking method.

Pr. Sara Biglieri (University of Monaco)

Researcher & dancer, expert in the question of embodiment in the age of AI. Assistant Professor & Co-Director of MBA.

Takeru Costes (Opéra de Paris)

Ballet Dancer at Opéra de Paris

Pr. Diane Franck ( Stanford University)

Choreographer, Dance Educator & Researcher in Embodied Learning

Pr. Laëtitia Gabay-Mariani (Kedge Business School)

Coordinator of the Improbable Research Group


We warmly invite researchers, artists, and practitioners eager to explore the unknown and develop ambitious, improbable scientific projects together to join us.