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Corporate responsibility in the face of ai’s potential abuses

Corporate responsibility in the face of ai’s potential abuses

260 McDonald’s nuggets in a single order. An Air Canada chatbot lying to a grieving customer. A recruiting algorithm that blacklists everyone over 40.

Welcome to 2024, the year artificial intelligence showed its true colors. And spoiler alert: it’s not pretty.

While everyone was gushing over ChatGPT, companies were brutally discovering a harsh truth: when your machines screw up, YOU pay the price.

Gone are the golden days when you could shrug and mutter “it’s just a computer glitch.” The courts have spoken: your algorithms, your responsibility. End of story.

Europe legislates with the AI Act (180 pages of bureaucratic bliss). The US innovates at breakneck speed. China controls everything. Meanwhile, our companies are discovering that building responsible AI is like flying a fighter jet blindfolded in a thunderstorm.

The most ironic part? This silent revolution won’t just determine who pays for tomorrow’s disasters. It will decide who dominates the global economy for the next 50 years.

So, ready to discover why your next nightmare might go by the sweet name of “algorithm”? 👇

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OPINION

AI DIGITALSOVEREIGNTY ETHICS

When the Middle Kingdom reinvents education with AI as a tool for civilizational conquest…

When the Middle Kingdom reinvents education with AI as a tool for civilizational conquest…

While 6-year-old Chinese children are learning to train AI models to recognize insects in their gardens, French kids the same age are discovering… how to open a word processor.

This gap isn’t just a detail. It’s the symptom of a strategic chasm opening before our very eyes.

On one side, China deploys a plan of breathtaking ambition: 12 years of progressive AI learning to transform every citizen into a “digital native.” The result? It already produces 50% of the world’s top AI researchers compared to 18% for the United States.

On the other, France has just decided “once and for all” after… 4 months of consultation that mobilized 500 contributions. Out of 1.2 million people in the national education system. That’s 0.04% of the educational community.

The French verdict? AI will be authorized starting from 8th grade only, with mandatory training of 30 minutes to 1.5 hours maximum to master the “basics of prompting.” Between reminders about server water consumption.

While Beijing trains entire cohorts of children who will grow up with AI as their natural companion, Paris organizes consultations and offers hour-and-a-half micro-modules.

In 10 years, guess who will truly master this technology that’s already redefining global power balances?

History may judge us on our ability to transform a technological revolution… into administrative reform.

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OPINION

AI EDUCATION ETHICS

AI Myths and Their Power of Dispossession

AI Myths and Their Power of Dispossession

“This AI writes better than I do!”

I hear this sentence at least three times a week. From a marketing director dazzled by ChatGPT. From a graphic designer fascinated by Midjourney. From a student who just discovered that a machine can solve their math exercises in seconds.

And every time, I think to myself: we’ve just crossed an invisible line.

Not the line of technical performance, that’s just computing doing what it’s always done: calculating fast and well. No, we’ve crossed the line of our own devaluation. The one where we start doubting our most human capabilities: thinking, creating, deciding.

As a mathematician who works with AI daily, I see three grand mythological narratives being constructed before our eyes. Three seductive stories that gradually make us abandon something precious: our intellectual autonomy.

The problem isn’t that AI is too performant. It’s that we’re becoming too gullible.

In the lines that follow, I invite you to dissect these three myths with me, myths that are silently redrawing the boundaries of our humanity. Because before knowing what AI can do, it’s about time we remember what we don’t want to lose.

Ready for a little collective exercise in lucidity?

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OPINION

AI ETHICS

AI as a thinking aid, or the slow fading of knowledge?

AI as a thinking aid, or the slow fading of knowledge?

💬 It speaks well. It answers fast. It impresses… But it does not think.

Artificial intelligence is not what you believe it is. Not thinking, just predicting. Not a mind, but a statistical echo. And maybe the real danger isn’t AI itself, but what we stop doing because it exists.

🧠 AI doesn’t steal our intelligence. It simply relieves us from using it. And in that relief, a slow erosion begins… one that eats away at our ability to question, to seek, to truly think.

This article is not a manifesto against technology. It’s a plea for thought. An invitation to lucidity. And a warning about what we might lose, without even noticing: our inner freedom.

📖 Read it. Share it. Start a conversation. This isn’t just a text about AI.
It’s a text about you.

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OPINION

AI DIGITALSOVEREIGNTY ETHICS

Biases in AI are a disturbing reflection of our humanity

Biases in AI are a disturbing reflection of our humanity

💡 What if AI biases were nothing more than our own… amplified?

Algorithms have no morals or intentions. But they learn from us. From our data. From our past decisions. And sometimes—without us even realizing it—they inherit our deepest prejudices.

In this excerpt, I invite you to dive into a cartography of our digital missteps: a journey through the invisible biases that quietly shape machine decisions… and already influence our lives. Hiring, credit, justice, healthcare—no sector is spared.

🔍 Whether it’s historical bias, representation gaps, or blind trust in automation, each algorithmic distortion acts like a funhouse mirror reflecting our society. This isn’t just a technical issue—it’s a matter of conscience.

And maybe, to build fairer AI, we first need to take a better look at ourselves.

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CERISE & ADA

AI BIAISES ETHICS