The concept of the ā€˜Diploma Update GuaranteeĀ©ā€™, which is unique worldwide, was devised by aivancity and is the subject of a patent application filed by the school.

aivancity is committed to offering its graduates a range of services enabling them to adapt their skills to developments in the fields covered by artificial intelligence and data science.

This guarantee of degree updates forms part of the schoolā€™s core mission, which is rooted in its values: supporting graduates throughout their professional careers and enhancing their employability.

This guarantee of programme updates, offered to graduates of the Grande Ɖcole Programme for 10 years and to Bachelorā€™s and MSc graduates for 5 years, is available to them for life, subject to taking out a subscription after the guarantee period. Thus:

  • Graduates will be able to return to the school to attend classes and continue to have access to a wide range of resources: online courses, the media library, etc.

Beyond its technical aspects (web crawling, data mining, data science, machine learning, deep learning, etc.), the convergence of AI and management is essential to addressing the major technological shifts, the challenges posed by scientific progress and the societal constraints that will shape the world of tomorrow. The full integration of content, teaching methods and research in AI and the social sciences thus paves the way for the emergence of a new model capable of tackling major scientific, industrial and societal challenges. Our vision for the school does not seek to compete with engineering or business schools, both of which are long-established and well-regarded in France, but rather to explore the field that lies between these two pillars of excellenceā€”an approach successfully demonstrated at certain world-class institutions such as Stanford University or the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).

ā€˜Teaching [on the ethics of AI] is virtually absent from the curricula of engineering schools or computer science programmes at universities, even though the volume and complexity of the ethical issues these future graduates will face are constantly increasing.ā€™ Villani Report, 2018