Category AI
Averting the Digital Sovereignty Trap
The following text is based on my “keynote provocation” during a panel discussion on “What Digital Sovereignty Means for Civil Society”, organized by the Swiss chapter of the Internet Society (ISOC) in Zurich on March 27th, 2026. Today’s debate on digital sovereignty feels like an intense case of déjà vu: For the better part of the past thirty years, Europe’s key policy-makers have kept playing a familiar song …
“Thinking About AI” (edited volume)
The edited volume Penser l’intelligence artificielle – Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l’automatisation numérique (Thinking About Artificial Intelligence: Philosophical, Political, and Cultural Issues in Digital Automation) is out in French. It is edited by Anne Alombert, Alban Leveau-Vallier, and Baptiste Loreaux, published by Presses du réel. I had the pleasure of contributing to the book through a short chapter, …
AI and the Lessons of Past Labor Struggles
In a new article for Le Monde diplomatique, with researchers Maud Barret Bertelloni and Pauline Gourlet, we look back at the relevance of 1970’s French trade union critiques of computerization to inform contemporary struggles against AI. The issues were more or less the same as today (loss of skills, worker isolation, amplification of managerial surveillance, etc.), but the analysis and solutions outlined at the time were far more …
AI Action Summit: Accelerating, Whatever The Cost
This Op-Ed was first published in the newspaper La Croix. The Paris summit on artificial intelligence (AI) organized by France was held on February 10 and 11, 2025. It will go down in history as a great moment of acceleration. While French civil society is organizing, particularly through the Hiatus coalition launched on the initiative of La Quadrature du Net, to resist the surge of artificial intelligence, Europe is engaging in a headlong rush …
AI and Government Reform: Towards Humanless Bureaucracies?
Text originally published in French in November 2021 on AOC media. In recent years, with extensive use of vocabulary borrowed from the “start-up” world, we have witnessed the consolidation of a new iteration of neoliberal state reform. Through concepts such as “platform state” or “state start-up”1, new reformers have been counting on “corporate hackers” and disruptive innovation to transform public …