Agenda

Book presentation: Ni dieu ni AI. Une philosophie sceptique de l’intelligence artificielle, La Découverte, Paris, 2025

Speaker: Mathieu Corteel (Sciences Po)

Chair: Giovanni Fava (AIMODELS/HealthXCross) and Tommaso Guariento (AIMODELS)

Artificial intelligence is now embedded in our search engines, social networks, text and image generators, and voice assistants. Trained on our data, these systems increasingly produce content in our place—from student assignments to scientific papers, deepfakes, journalism, and visual art. AI is spreading into every corner of cultural production and, slowly, into our daily lives. We hand over our memories, desires, emotions, knowledge, and creations with few limits. But what if this trajectory leads not to conscious machines, as both enthusiasts and critics predict, but to the capture and exploitation of our collective intelligence?

By examining the endless chain of simulations that blur reality, this book (perhaps written by an AI) leads readers through a series of paradoxes into a strangely ordered absurdity. Along the way—past brains in vats, typing robots, stochastic parrots, quantum police, and psychopathic chatbots—Mathieu Corteel invites us to reflect on our growing willingness to offload human abilities onto powerful calculating systems. What does it really mean to delegate our capacity to act, create, and decide to interfaces we treat as if they could think—especially in fields such as work, care, surveillance, voting, and education? And what happens to human worlds as they hybridize with machines?

Mathieu Corteel, philosopher and historian of science, is a postdoctoral researcher at Sciences Po and the Institut Imagine, and an associate researcher at Harvard. He notably published Chance and the Pathological (Presses de Sciences Po, 2020).

Further information: giovanni.fava@unive.it

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