Presentation
This seminar aims to examine the uses and effects of artificial intelligence in the reconfiguration of contemporary strategic issues, whether cyber, informational, cognitive, or military. Indeed, as AI is a technical object capable of being integrated into other technical objects, it can be considered a protean geopolitical weapon, adaptable to its environment. Within cyberspace, it can be used to carry out cyberattacks of various kinds, but also to generate and disseminate information on a massive scale in order to dominate the informational layer of cyberspace. Deployed within an attention economy, AI raises strategic questions of digital sovereignty, cognitive sovereignty, and informational sovereignty alike, insofar as it is increasingly used to manipulate information, and even to conduct campaigns of influence and propaganda—as illustrated by the phenomenon of “slopaganda” between Iran and the United States. However, the uses of AI are not confined to the digital sphere: as a protean technical object, it can also be deployed on the battlefield and integrated into machines, drones in particular, which have been used extensively in the Russo-Ukrainian war. The second part of this seminar will therefore focus on the uses and effects of AI in strategic decision-making, both on the military front and, more broadly, on the effects of AI outsourcing on society, the individual, and cognition.
Elsa Novelli (Post-doc specialty cyber and AI at Ciens)
Semester 1, 6 ECTS (6 sessions of 2 hours),
Thursday 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. in room U209 at 29 rue d’Ulm
