Some political dimensions of blockchains
Blockchain technology promises the disappearance of “cumbersome” trusted third parties. But we don’t get rid of them at little political cost.
29 May 2021
Tagged: society
The hypothesis of the “Robot Person”
Can and should autonomous “intelligent” artifacts be held responsible for their decisions? Should a new legal subject be created?
1 May 2021
Tristan Harris and the Swamp of Digital Ethics
Addictions, fake news, breaches of privacy … Can the “ethical” offer of digital professionals remedy these drifts?
6 February 2021
Ecce Homo Mathematicus
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
3 October 2020
Elon Musk, special vassal
Elon Musk acts like a feudal lord, vassal of the technological system. Will we be resistant enough to live in the “territories” conquered by this tough guy?
23 May 2020
Attachment to Simulacra
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.
11 April 2020
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 2019
Following Julian Jaynes: comeback of the Bicameral Mind?
While the theories of “consciousness” are progressing, isn’t the human of the 21st century (re)engaged towards a form of “non-consciousness”?
21 August 2019
The Mirrors of the “I”
In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.
28 April 2019
Fake news: legislate or educate?
A law was promulgated in France at the end of 2018 to respond to the inflation of “fake news”. What can be said today about this controversial subject?
16 February 2019