L’Humanité à l’épreuve de l’IA : le combat déjà perdu ? (Avec Éric SADIN, Philosophe) | UEF 2025

To confine him to a promoter of technophobic thought would be reductive and inappropriate; portraying him as a whistleblower of the anthropological ruptures and civilizational damage caused by the scientific takeover is much more accurate. For fifteen years, philosopher Eric Sadin has been trying to warn, inform, mobilize, and empower us in the face of the flood of new technologies that are invading our personal and professional lives, disrupting work, employment, and the economy, conditioning our romantic, family, and social relationships, colonizing our thoughts, our emotions, our creativity, and sequestering rather than expanding our freedoms. On February 10, when France brought together the global elite of artificial intelligence in Paris, he organized a resounding counter-summit to counter it with a radical awakening. The title of his next book says it all about the tenor of his intervention, which, like him, promises to be explosive: The Desert of Ourselves. The intellectual and creative turning point of artificial intelligence. Or how generative AI is shaping "a moment of extreme gravity, witnessing the ever-increasing automation of the world. However, this is in no way a democratically decided societal project, but the result of the views of engineers and the boundless ambition of the tech empire. It is time to uncompromisingly defend the exercise of the faculties that define us. Otherwise, we will soon belong to a humanity absent from itself." A round table discussion on the occasion of Une Epoque Formidable with: Éric SADIN - Philosopher, specialist in the digital world Closing of the debate: Etienne KLEIN Moderation: Ludovic Desautez, Deputy Editor