One conviction has stayed with me for a long time: a technology that thinks in our place doesn’t set us free, it replaces us. What I ask of it is that it sharpen our judgment, not spare us the trouble of using it.
I came to technology through the computer underground of the 1980s, that hacker counterculture where opening up the machine and understanding what it was really doing felt almost like a civic duty.
With a PhD in mathematics and artificial intelligence, I design powerful systems day in, day out, notably in the medical field, never forgetting that they exist to serve the people who use them.
In “Shaping ethical innovation with a human loop”, I step through the digital looking glass to face what these machines are actually doing to our lives, our schools, our choices. Because the real turning point won’t come from the machines, but from the clear-headedness with which we decide to put them to use.
📎 To learn more about me, visit my LinkedIn profile: Philippe Buschini.