Artificial intelligence will enslave us…the forward-looking statement of a French philosopher | policy

The French philosopher Eric Sadin believes that excessive reliance on artificial intelligence threatens humans with the loss of their creative and intellectual characteristics, and will usher in a phase of human and civilizational decline whose danger is not realized by even the most cautious of its supporters.

Le Figaro newspaper – in a report written by Alya Coffin – reviewed Sadin’s warning that artificial intelligence will not be just an auxiliary tool, but will lead to the erosion of human identity on the intellectual, cultural and civilizational levels, and turn it into a copy subordinate to the technical system.

The newspaper explained that Sadin, in his book “The Desert of Our Self,” attacked those fools who are eager – as he described it – for man to abandon himself, ruling out any acceptance of coexistence between man and artificial intelligence, nor even the taming of this technology before adopting it.

The philosopher used the real-life example of Robin Williams’ daughter, who issued a desperate call to her followers to stop sending deepfake clips to her father, to emphasize how artificial intelligence can be used to revive dead people digitally, which he calls “digital mummification” that turns human life into mere content to be consumed without respect for memory and art.

The philosopher, who initiated the organization of the “Anti-Artificial Intelligence Summit” last February to coincide with the global summit hosted by France, rejects this view of technology that says that progress is inherently good.

Artificial intelligence threatens not just jobs, but human existence itself on the intellectual and creative level, and its responsibility falls on three intertwined parties: the politicians, engineers, and economists who built this system in secret.

The French philosopher believes that artificial intelligence, especially GBT chat, is neither an innocent tool nor a mere heir to the printing press. Rather, in his opinion, it represents an unprecedented intellectual and creative transformation that has led to an anthropological and cultural erasure whose true extent the supporters of artificial intelligence have not yet realized.

Despite the bleak prognosis, Sadin calls for preserving what remains of humanity, such as protecting the weakness, failure, and spontaneity that sustain the human spirit, and stresses that resisting technical control is a moral and human duty, and that “life always finds its way,” even in the most difficult circumstances.

Sadan warns that artificial intelligence threatens not just jobs, but human existence itself at the intellectual and creative level, holding responsibility to three intertwined parties: politicians, engineers, and economists, who built this system in secret, saying, “These people have an Excel spreadsheet instead of a heart.”