Find below the interview of François Prouteau on Artificial Intelligence on the local French radio: RCF!
RCF: Next Tuesday, you will be hosting the second session of the forum under the patronage of UNESCO on the theme of the Metamorphosis of the World and the impact on humans of advances in technoscience and artificial intelligence?
This forum addresses a major issue of our time and for the future of humanity, with important issues for education. I am actively participating in this forum as president of Fondacio, which has been heavily involved for a long time in this Catholic-inspired NGO platform that is the CCIC, a partner of UNESCO, the UN specialized agency for science, culture and education. UNESCO wants to develop recommendations in the face of current crises and ongoing technoscientific revolutions.
After the session of this forum, on April 8, devoted to the context and the different dimensions of this Metamorphosis of the World, what is the theme of this second session, on Tuesday, May 11?
The chosen theme is: "Does Artificial Intelligence lead to a rethinking of the human being? What human needs can Artificial Intelligence, AI, meet?" Today, holding a global discourse on the human being in all its complexity is a difficult task. AI emerged from the laboratories at the end of the last century, it has become "universal and all-powerful", as Father Eric Salobir pointed out during the Introduction to the forum on April 8, 2021. The whole field of possibilities seems open, and our vision of what the world and the human being are is being called into question from top to bottom. Will man "make his honey" from technosciences and AI or, on the contrary, are they not in the process of eliminating the human person, of making the world of men disappear?
Can you give some examples?
We can see it now, the speed with which vaccines have been developed is the result of the application of AI: it has made it possible to determine in record time and in a precise manner the structure of the proteins of the virus. The impact of AI in all sectors of individual life and society is incredible, on our smartphones and for the professional activity of doctors, teachers and also those who analyze health or climate crises. But there is also a general concern about a possible takeover of AI over humans, fears in relation to freedom of expression, privacy, manipulation of information, or even the economy. Are we moving towards an economy based on productive efficiency and consumption patterns enslaved to machine algorithms? Or is AI participating in the gradual advent of an “economy centered on creative intensity, but also on relational and spiritual intensity whose exchange model remains to be invented” (Giorgini, La crise de la joie, Bayard, 2021)? These will be some of the questions that we will explore with the six experts, French, German, Canadian, and Ivorian during our webinar on May 11.
You can view the presentation of this forum and register online for this webinar on May 11 on our website, online.
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