Avec le développement des intelligences artificielles se posent de nombreuses questions sociétales. En particulier, comment définir une éthique de ce domaine ? Armen Khatchatourov, philosophe à Télécom École de Management et membre de la Chaire « Valeurs et politiques des informations personnelles » de l’IMT, observe et analyse avec attention
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On 30 January next, the European Bioethics Forum will open its seventh edition until 4 February. On the theme "Human, post-human", which will be broken down into 35 debates, 135 experts, 40 major witnesses from the public, 370 schoolchildren and the general public will give their views. The human being is being transformed before our eyes, physically,
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Renewing ourselves, seeking new resources and inventing a new harmony for human nature. To acquire this new agility, the assets and limitations of the brain require hard work. To imagine a different future by confronting ourselves with the retrospective powers of memory. Open our perceptions to discover
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Le ministre de l’Agriculture, Stéphane Le Foll, a présenté ce 18 janvier la stratégie française pour soutenir la bioéconomie. Le terme de bioéconomie désigne la production et la transformation des biomasses d’origine agricole, forestière, marine ou issue de déchets. Ces ressources peuvent être utilisées non seulement pour nous nourrir mais aussi
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En mars prochain, un important assureur japonnais remplacera 34 de ses employés par une intelligence artificielle. Cela viendrait à conforter le rapport publié en 2015 par l’Institut de recherche Nomura, prévoyant que près de la moitié des emplois au Japon sera tenue par des robots en 2035. Déjà, aux USA,
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While Belgian researchers are reportedly on the verge of developing a revolutionary treatment for cancer, we offer you an overview of this "disease" of the century. It is an evidence-based synthesis of a series of reports produced by public health organisations that analyse the evolution of the disease in the following areas
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Nanotechnology and nanomaterials use tiny particles of the nanometre (millionth of a millimetre) size and have immense potential to improve our quality of life. However, as with any new technology or development, there are potential drawbacks. A report by GreenFacts (1). One
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Pendant la guerre froide, ce que l’on craignait par-dessus tout c’était qu’une bombe atomique ne nous tombe sur la tête. L’équilibre de la terreur était maintenu entre les grandes puissances détentrices de l’arme nucléaire. Chacun se tenait par la barbichette et tout, finalement, allait très bien. Une nouvelle guerre froide
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Over the past few decades, projects have transformed the way people work together. In essence, they have confronted the power relationships associated with silos, forcing the organization to invent inter-directorate committees. They have challenged relational skills and forced technicians to discover negotiation. This learning process has
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CRISPR-Cas9, cet outil moléculaire d’édition génétique dont nous relatons assidument les développements dans nos colonnes, pourrait devenir, entre les mains de terroristes, une arme de destruction massive. C’est ce que pensent les experts de la CIA qui ont alerté, il y a quelques jours, le président Obama. Cette technologie de
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The emergence of new technologies and the progress made in many fields (digital, robotics, medicine...) have revolutionized our daily life and the way we look at the evolution of humanity in just a few years. What will we look like in the future? What are the limits? Answers at the France Culture conference
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Protéger la diversité. Telle est l’ambition de la Conférence des parties de la Convention sur la diversité biologiques qui se tient à Cancun du 2 au 17 décembre. Alors que les chiffres attestant de la 6e extinction sont dramatiques – la moitié des espèces de vertébrés décimées depuis quarante ans
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More and more French startups in the field of life sciences are opening their capital to Chinese funds. This is a good way for them to find the industrial and financial partners capable of opening the doors of this huge emerging market to them.
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For ages we have dreamt of small objects circulating in our bodies, on the lookout for the slightest disturbance, to eradicate it with a magical ray of light. Hollywood has made them blockbuster movies, science fiction writers have enjoyed them. But today, reality seems to have overtaken fiction. Everywhere
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People in the European Union are living longer but not necessarily healthier lives: a diagnosis that prompted the OECD and the European Commission on Wednesday to recommend that governments invest more in their health systems. "We need to invest in people's lives and human capital,
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October 28 will be a date marked with a white stone or a black stone; the future will tell. Indeed, for the first time, Chinese scientists have injected an adult human with cells genetically modified by the famous CRISPR-Cas9 technique. A team of scientists from the University of
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The DAVOS Forum has established a hierarchy of qualities required for leadership in 2020. It proposes a cognitive and emotional coherence that prefigures the profiles of the transformational leaders we need to build a different future. In the past, mastering economic performance and controlling
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In less than fifteen years, the prophecies of those who foretell the victory over death and the triumph of a non-biological life form are likely to be fulfilled. Google's slogan "we're going to kill death" is not just an advertising slogan. For unbridled technology is moving inexorably towards the
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La société biopharmaceutique Cellectics vient d’organiser un dîner d’aliments issus de l’édition du génome à New York. Une première mondiale qui a suscité six mois de préparation et de nombreux tests culinaires conduits par le laboratoire d’Alain Ducasse. Cellectis, société biopharmaceutique américaine spécialisée dans le développement d’immunothérapies fondées
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A new page is being written. We're heading into a changing future. The situations we have to solve are always more complex. Our skills are challenged. Activating new talents in this context requires cognitive and emotional effort. But nature is well done, or rather, science comes
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