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“Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds. A Plea for a Human-AI Covenant”
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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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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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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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Paul Jorion – Continual Learning
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AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?
In the same vein as my AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? a fortnight ago. Today, this AI: How would François Chollet criticise Paul Jorion’s manuscript?. The manuscript being entitled Rethinking Intelligence in the Age of Artificial Minds, forthcoming with Palgrave-Macmillan. OpenAI o3 : 1 Where your manuscript resonates with Chollet…
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AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible?
Illustration by ChatGPT 4o AI: Are Hinton’s and Jorion’s Views on Co-Evolution Compatible? Hinton’s view on co-evolution Geoffrey Hinton’s work implicitly sketches a re-imagining of evolution itself – one played out on silicon rather than in carbon. He often likens gradient descent to an evolutionary engine running on fast-forward: whereas natural selection gropes across generations…
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Video – Wow! Maya and I: Sci-Fi is Here to Stay!, March 9th 2025
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Intelligence & Société N°6, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Intelligence & Société N°5, an English-speaking review by NotebookLM
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Exploring the Frontiers of AI and Society: My Journey as a Speaker and Columnist
In recent weeks, I have had the privilege of speaking to audiences in Lille, Brussels and Nîmes about the societal and ethical dimensions of large language models (LLMs). These discussions, sparked by my latest book, La Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par l’intelligence artificielle, have brought me face-to-face with the pressing questions and challenges posed by artificial…
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“Progress in AI is slowing down” = fake news
Demis Hassabis, who recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work in AI, is sceptical about an article published four days ago: He does so (under a pseudonym) in the video below. What he says is very interesting (‘there’s no proof that there’s a slowdown’) but what I’d like to say (a comment…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XIV. Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride
Illustration by DALL·E: “The human being worshipping his own intelligence” Intelligence: A defining feature of our pride Humankind’s intelligence has always been praised by humans as maybe their defining quality. Animals around us display some of this intelligence but to a lesser degree, what Rousseau called in a non-disparaging way, the “stupidity” of the animal.…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. XI. Why were we caught off-guard by AI?
A portrait of Tycho Brahe, Royal Astrologist of Danemark, by Stable Diffusion Why were we caught off-guard by AI? Despite artificial intelligence having been a field of research since the 1950s and the achievement of software of the type of LLMs having been an objective clearly stated from the outset and the research effort having…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. III. East and West
Illustration by DALL·E of Marco Polo discovering China East and West In the conceptualisation of the advent of artificial intelligence on a par with human intelligence, there are major differences between the West and the East: between the civilisations and the range of cultures born, on the one hand, in the Fertile Crescent and, on…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. II. Decentring and refocusing the definition of “us”
Illustration by DALL·E from the text Decentring and refocusing the definition of ‘us’ Who do we think we should protect as a last resort, the members of a strictly defined ‘us’ with some and a vaguely defined ‘us’ among others, when things go wrong, as they unfortunately do time and time again on this troubled…
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A NEW “US” FOR NEW TIMES. I. Who are we? Where do we go from here?
Illustration by DALL·E (+Michelangelo) (+PJ) I. Who are we? Where do we go from here? If we examine this essential question of understanding who we are and what we are experiencing at this unprecedented moment, we see that the history of humanity has offered ever-changing answers, each shaped by an understanding of ourselves that reflects…
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A review of « L’avènement de la Singularité. L’humain ébranlé par la Singularité » by the two chatting IAs at NotebookLM