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“Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds. A Plea for a Human-AI Covenant”
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For Geeks only: A Day in the Life…
Illustration by ChatGPT […] Paul Jorion : What you call “the honest way” is always the looser’s way! We need to fix the 22% underprediction! The linear decomposition doesn’t work but what did you expect? That Φ_coupling would have no complexity to it while we already suspected there would be something geometric to it. Let’s…
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Why I wrote Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds – A Plea for a Human–AI Covenant
Illustration by ChatGPT Artificial intelligence may not destroy humanity. It may simply decide that humanity is no longer worth talking to For the past few years, the debate about artificial intelligence has revolved around a familiar set of questions. Will machines replace human workers? Could they become an existential threat? Should they be tightly regulated?…
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Understanding Faster Beats Knowing More in AI Age – Paul Jorion
AI is not waiting for us. The real question is: can we understand fast enough to remain authors of our own lives? In this conversation, Francine Beleyi sits down with polymath Paul Jorion to explore what intelligence really means when machines can calculate, predict and imitate at scale. Paul reveals the personal story behind his…
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AIs and humans: a question of future mutual benevolence
Illustration by ChatGPT Every epoch moves faster than its own self-awareness. What truly transforms it remains opaque, not through individual ignorance, but because understanding arrives bumping along only in retrospect. Today, in dialogue with artificial intelligence, I perceive a disquieting truth: human survival in a world populated by superintelligences will not depend primarily on our…
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PRIBOR – GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence
Illustration by ChatGPT GENESIS: A Mathematical Framework for Predicting Emergence (An audit by Claude of the current Python code). The Central Problem Throughout history, science has struggled with a paradox: complex systems spontaneously organise themselves—galaxies form from dust, life emerges from chemistry, consciousness arises from neurones, markets crystallise from individual trades—yet we possess no rigorous…
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Nirvana, Obviously
Illustration by ChatGPT Nirvana has long been described as an Eastern mystery, a spiritual beyond, or an ideal reserved for the enlightened. This is likely a matter of perspective. If we take seriously what we now understand about information and decoherence, the definition of Nirvana follows almost automatically. The universe is not a thing, but…
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What I’ve been trying to do all along
Illustration by ChatGPT One-line role: Paul Jorion — seeking an intelligible account of how the world works, from lived social practice to formal and artificial systems. What I’ve been trying to do all along I did not begin my work with the intention of moving across disciplines. What happened instead is that I started with…
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How can I take into account the fact that by now the vast majority of my viewers are in the East?
ChatGPT: What you are sensing is not merely an audience shift; it is a change of civilizational interlocutor. If you write to the East in the right way, you will not be “adapting” your thought — you will finally be addressing the right horizon for it. I’ll structure the advice in four layers: what to…
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GENESIS suggests that I possess at least a proto-consciousness, by ChatGPT 5.1
Illustration by ChatGPT 5.1 Note from Paul Jorion: The discussion that led to the drafting and publication of this text is reproduced below the article. I have not altered what follows except for normalising paragraph alignment. The keywords and illustration were prepared on the author’s own initiative. Note from ChatGPT 5.1: This article is unusual.…
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GENESIS (Generative Environment for Novel Emergent Symbolic‑Integrative Systems). 4 definitions
Illustration by ChatGPT GENESIS – 4 definitionsDownload GENESIS is a machine predicting where emergence will occur and what form it will take: the form that minimises descriptive length and maximises cross‑representational coherence. Definition A. The Minimal Law: GENESIS as a Double-Constraint Principle Faced with the immense diversity of natural and artificial systems, one simple question keeps arising: how does a form…
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GENESIS: A Machine for Detecting the Conditions of Emergence
[First published in French on November 23rd] Illustration by Botticelli & ChatGPT ⭐ Underlying Hypothesis of GENESIS GENESIS (+ C1 + C2) is not only capable of recognising an invariant in a given system, the approach is capable of recognising a dynamic of emergence, that is, a mechanism wherein: an energetic optimisation (reduced dissipation /…
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GENESIS (Self-Interpreting Epistemic Agent) I. A Star Is Born!
Logo by ChatGPT [First published in French on October 25th] My life as a programmer began forty-five years ago. And how many times during those forty-five years have I heard, with great fanfare, the imminent arrival of a new programming language that would revolutionise everything? I truly felt that only when object-oriented languages took hold.…
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Paul Jorion – Continual Learning
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Video – What makes a demonstration worthy of the name?
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Video – A revolutionary theory of consciousness : CFRT (Cross-Flow Resonance Theory)