Reassuring and resolutely turned towards A Promising future
Dedramatize Fear Felt in the Face of THESE Changes by Offering Reflection
Constructive and enlightened.
The Author Proposes A Concrete Program to seize this World and take Part
in its Refoundation (Actions to take, tools to deivelop, New challenges).

Are machines getting emotional, curious and intelligent? One thing is certain, they penetrate our world in all its dimensions, entangled in civilization and in the ecosystem. We are entering the reign of algoracia, that of the world dominated, enriched, governed, monitored and cured by algorithms. Faced with this astonishing world, we feel an upheaval made of terror and the sublime, in this immense gap between what we perceive ourselves to be, and this new reality that technologies impose. The ecological, humanitarian and ethical challenges that await us will require an unprecedented alliance with artificial intelligence, a fusion of our intelligences. We will have to learn to live, create, think and educate with AI and its algorithms. In turn, human and AI will become students, teachers and partners in this creation of a new human-machine world. "How do you live in a world that will experience the equivalent of 10,000 years of progress by 2100?" How to think and rethink society in the face of advances, challenges, terrors and extraordinary successes of artificial intelligence? How to make this world flooded with technologies more humane and fairer? Our world of technology and artificial intelligence amplifies and accelerates our ethical issues while allowing us to better understand, grasp and resolve them. "

Ollivier Dyens is a full professor at the Literature Department
of French language, translation and creation of the University
McGill. He is founder and co-director of the innovation laboratory
Building 21 (building21.ca). He is the author of 12 books including Viruses, Parasites and Computers: The Third Hemisphere of the Brain (PUM, 2014), La condition inhumaine. Essay on technological dread
(Flammarion, 2008) and Flesh and metal, the evolution of man: the
technology takes over (VLB, 2000; English edition: MIT Press,
2001)