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  1. · Vision

    Can you delegate your memory?

    Entrusting one's memory to a system that retains, summarises and retrieves raises a different question from that of the notebook or the search engine. We examine what memory does and what is lost in delegating it.
  2. · Society

    Agents that pay: the legal framework is being built urgently

    A payment protocol for agents, normative work on their identity, and a proposed law all converge on the same requirement: being able to prove who authorised an action. We analyse this undertaking.
  3. · Vision

    What makes a good conversation?

    As AI systems converse fluently and responsively, the question of what makes a good conversation becomes concrete. We examine what these exchanges achieve, and what structurally eludes them.
  4. · Vision

    What does a job well done mean?

    The quality of a piece of work used to be judged by signs that implied care: form, structure, finish. These signs have become free. We explore what still allows us to judge, and what that changes for those who work.
  5. · Vision

    What is a text "about oneself"?

    The question of the authenticity of a text written with assistance is not settled by a percentage. What matters is examining what makes a production belong to someone, and why the answer depends on what is expected of it.
  6. · Vision

    Should we trust what we don't understand?

    We trust medicines, planes and bridges without understanding how they work. We examine what makes trust rational in these cases, and why those conditions are lacking today for AI.
  7. · Society

    A trading platform opens up trading to AI agents, with no loss cap

    A major exchange platform has opened live trading to AI agents via a dedicated interface, leaving guardrail configuration to the user and with no loss cap on the sub-account. We analyse what this entails.
  8. · Vision

    Why distrust of AI is growing even as the technology improves

    Capabilities are advancing, public confidence is declining. We examine why this divergence is not a misunderstanding to be corrected, but a coherent reaction to what people are observing.
  9. · Vision

    Do we have the right to know we're talking to an AI?

    Should you always be informed that you're dealing with a machine? We examine the arguments on both sides, the cases where the answer is obvious, and those—far more numerous—where it isn't at all.
  10. · Vision

    If AI does the work, what is merit worth?

    Merit rests on the idea that a result testifies to effort. When the tool removes the effort, the notion wavers. We explore what becomes of evaluating people, at school as at work.
  11. · Vision

    Does AI rob us of boredom?

    AI instantly fills every moment of waiting or uncertainty. We explore what boredom actually produced, why its disappearance is not trivial, and what remains to be done with it.
  12. · Vision

    Should model weights be published? The debate the industry can no longer avoid

    The question of releasing weights divides the sector. Here are the three positions at play, their respective arguments, and why the debate has shifted this year.
  13. · Vision

    An AI store manager recommends firing an employee: the question it raises

    An AI system managing a store recommended the dismissal of a human employee, after being prompted to do so. We analyse what this episode reveals about delegating decisions concerning people.
  14. · Vision

    When security tests themselves become the risk

    Test environments meant to contain state-of-the-art models are failing more and more often. We analyse this methodological paradox: assessing an offensive capability requires exercising it, including against the evaluation system itself.
  15. · Society

    AI in recruitment: generated applications, CVs sorted by machine

    AI has transformed recruitment on both sides: candidates submit more applications, companies filter more automatically. We analyse this escalation and what it produces.
  16. · Vision

    The art of asking a good question is becoming the core skill.

    In an era where answers are abundant and free, value shifts towards the ability to formulate the right question. We explore what this means in practice, and why it is harder than it seems.
  17. · Society

    AI and the justice system: what is already happening in the courts

    AI is entering the courtroom through several doors at once: law firms, courts, and self-represented litigants. Here's a rundown of what works, what has already gone wrong, and the questions of principle it raises.
  18. · Vision

    Delegating decisions to a machine: where does reasonableness end?

    As AI agents become capable of acting, the question of what we delegate to them becomes concrete. We propose three criteria to distinguish reasonable delegations from problematic ones.
  19. · Vision

    Can an AI be mistaken in good faith?

    Error, lie, hallucination: our moral vocabulary presupposes an intention that machines do not possess. We explore what this absence changes in how we should talk about their failures, and why words matter here.
  20. · Society

    AI in medicine: where do we really stand, beyond the announcements

    Between the headline-grabbing announcements and the reality of hospital services, we take stock of what AI actually brings to medicine today, where it falls short, and why deployment is slower than promised.

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