As part of its ethical mission, the CNIL is publishing its air2023 notebook in order to share and continue the reflections carried out during the event, organized at the end of 2023, on the influence ofartificial intelligence on our choices. It includes the contributions of the speakers in the form of interviews and testimonies.
AI, from the transformation of our daily lives to changes in work
In our search engines, in our playlists or to advise us on the next film to watch, AI is already omnipresent to improve the comfort of our daily lives. In recent years, particularly with the sensational and free arrival of the ChatGPT conversational robot, the general public has quickly and massively adopted generative artificial intelligence. Beyond the European Union, which for two and a half years has put on the table a draft regulation of systems ofartificial intelligencemajor global public actors are mobilizing in an unprecedented way on the issue.
On a daily basis, the use of these new technologies raises essential questions about our relationship to learning and knowledge, as well as our cognitive and memory capacities and the interactions between human beings. Are we in the process of homogenizing our way of thinking, our choices, our tastes?
At work, artificial intelligence technologies are presented as freeing up tasks with greater or lesser added value. If AI can emancipate workers from a certain number of arduous and time-consuming activities, its standardization within the work organization also carries the risk of homogenizing and automating work processes. How can we ensure that the AI-assisted worker understands and maintains control over his production tool? Alongside the processes, the new skills required by the use of AI are also transforming the job market. What are these changes, what risks and what opportunities do they offer? What political regulation should we hope for?
All these questions were the subject of passionate and fascinating debates during the event air2023.
You can now consult the summary in the air2023 notebooks, but also relive them by watching the rebroadcast online.
It is because the development of artificial intelligence puts fundamental freedoms in tension that it imposes ethical reflection, not to restrict this technology but so that the promise it carries of amplifying human intelligence is realized.
– Marie-Laure Denis, president of the CNIL
The air2023 notebook
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Wishing to share the work and debates conducted during the November 2023 event, the CNIL is today publishing the air2023 notebook “ AI and free will: are we digital sheep? », which covers the main points of the event:
- AI in everyday life: how can we ensure that artificial intelligence serves our lives?
- The art of artifice: how to put AI at the service of creativity?
- AI and changes at work: how can AI be put to the service of the job market, businesses and workers?
This notebook is for everyonewhether it is the general public – the first concerned by the transformations brought about by AI, professionals implementing innovative solutions, researchers, or even public authorities.
Watch the replay of the event
To go further: interview with Étienne Klein, physicist and philosopher of science
Are AIs already more efficient than humans?
It does indeed happen that silicon repairs the neuron, for example when it comes to playing chess or Go. But the machines that beat us understand nothing of what they have learned or what they are doing. , and they consume much more energy than a human brain.
What choices still belong only to us?
We can debate endlessly about our alienation by AI, or even about our “replacement”. It is certain that we will lose here and win there. There remains the question of the “life of the mind”: what will it become in a world full of screens, constantly punctuated by clicks and saturated with information? Photography, when it was invented, seemed to threaten painting. Provoked by this technical competition, painters reacted by inventing abstraction. Will the ever more sophisticated development of artificial intelligence produce an effect of the same type, that is to say, provoke a development of the mind? Or will it end up dumbing us down? And will our human brains always know how to distinguish what is algorithms from what constitutes their own thoughts?
What difference do you make between innovation and progress?
The word “progress” has almost disappeared from public discourse, replaced by “innovation”. However, upon examination, we see that our discourse on innovation is turning away from the rhetoric of progress: We must innovate, we explain, not to invent another world, but to prevent the disintegration of the current one. While brandishing the standard of novelty, we act as if the passing of time were corrupter, that is to say, worsened the situations and challenges to be faced. However, such a conception turns its back on the spirit of the Enlightenment, for which time is, on the contrary, constructor And partner in crime of our freedom – provided, of course, that we make the effort to invest in a certain representation of the future, which is both credible and attractive.
