AI

Yes, VivaTech was ten days ago. No, I didn’t write in the heat of the moment. Everyone else did. The LinkedIn posts went up on Thursday evening — rocket emojis, selfies with robots, “game changer,” “mind blown,” and the traditional blurry photo of a screen displaying something impressive. I chose not to do that. Not out of snobbery. Out of intellectual honesty. Because a show like VivaTech is designed to dazzle you. That’s its function. It’s even its virtue — it makes visible what is still invisible in most organizations. But between what you see and what it means, there is work to be done. Work of distillation, of putting things in tension, of connecting what you observe with what you see elsewhere, in the organizations you support. ...

In response to Nirit Weiss-Blatt’s article, “First They Built a Secular Apocalypse Belief System. Now They Want Religious Authority.” Some articles hit home — not because they say everything, but because they name something everyone sensed without being able to articulate it. Nirit Weiss-Blatt’s piece, published on June 2, 2026 on AI Panic, is one of them. Her argument is simple and sharp: AI doomerism — the current that predicts human extinction by AI — has the structural attributes of a religious movement. God replaced by superintelligence, hell replaced by extinction, the prophets replaced by rationalist probabilists convinced they’ve grasped what the masses ignore. And now, the cherry on the dogma: this movement, born in atheist circles, goes looking for its moral legitimacy… at the Vatican. ...

There are two discourses about AI that, right now, aren’t speaking to each other. The first comes from above. From the floors of vision, where the future of humanity is drawn in slides. On November 6, 2025, Mustafa Suleyman, head of Microsoft AI, publishes a manifesto: Towards Humanist Superintelligence. A “humanist” superintelligence — human-centered, subordinate, controllable, one that “can’t open a Pandora’s Box.” The vocabulary is reassuring, almost paternal. AI will be our ally, on our team, in service of the common good. ...