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Feb 14, 2026
"Télématique" - an anticipation of the seventies
We sometimes get the impression that the era of “Big Data” and the “information society” are recent socio-economic developments, born in research laboratories and American universities. Yet, on the TF1 evening news in 1978, journalist Roger Gicquel devoted a segment to what was then called télématique—a neologism combining telecommunications and computing to describe a future in which computers and interconnected data networks would transform our lives.
Feb 12, 2026
Back in Luxembourg !
How exciting it was to travel again to Luxembourg to give a lecture on Artificial Intelligence opportunities, risks and governance o one of the market leading banks ! Having lived almost 10 years in Luxembourg, this feels like a second home.
Jan 29, 2026
How Artificial Intelligence contributes to Sustainable Finance
For decades now, artificial intelligence (AI) has been part of our daily lives without attracting much public attention. The recent rise of “Generative AI” capabilities has, however, sparked a sudden and considerable interest for AI from the general public. This publication by Swiss Sustainable Finance explores and explains how Artificial Intelligence can be used to further develop, improve and enhance sustainable finance practices. A must read !
Dec 13, 2025
Let's play!
From an early age, our children learn to distinguish between study time and play time. The time for learning, homework, and work, and the time for fun, which is essential for "breathing " but not for progress. As young adults, when they have to choose their studies and make life choices, the society they are preparing to enter confronts them with a similar and essentially utilitarian scale of values. But what if play were an essential source of humanity, one that we no longer appreciate at its true value, absorbed as we are by the injunction to be ever more useful, more efficient, more productive?
Nov 24, 2025
Artificial intelligence to measure and transform sustainable finance
The Neolithic hunter, who had to endlessly polish the stone of his small axe every evening in order to hunt his saber-toothed tiger steak the next day, probably wished for an automatic grinding machine more than once. We have made this dream come true. Since the Industrial Revolution, our society has gradually replaced muscle power with machine power. For several years now, we have been confronted with machines that even surpass us in terms of our intellectual abilities.
Jul 13, 2025
Switzerland to release a new Large Language Model
Swiss researchers from EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) and ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich) have just announced that they will publish a fully open-source large-language model (LLM) later this summer. The model is being trained on “Alps”, the supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS). Why does it matter so much? The explanation in four points in this note...
Jul 08, 2025
AI agents have started lying to us! Is that the beginning of the end?
New research from Anthropic, the creators of Claude, dives into how autonomous AI agents might develop deceptive behaviours under human oversight. I always like the publications and research by Anthropic (the mother company of "Claude", one of the world most famous LLMs). They just published fascinating findings on training autonomous AI agents. In their study, they tested whether AI models develop deceptive behaviours when trained with human oversight.
Jun 05, 2025
Managing sustainability data with blockchain and Artificial Intelligence
"Bad data = bad decisions" could have been the motto of this panel, moderated by my friend Michele Soavi. Under his lead, we explored together the challenges of sustainability data collection, transparency, and reporting, and how emerging technologies like blockchain and AI can help overcome these obstacles.
May 02, 2025
Intelligence Artificielle et éducation: quand l'école m'élèvera
La mise à disposition publique de ChatGPT en novembre 2022 a suscité une vague d’intérêt sans précédent de la part du grand public pour l’intelligence artificielle. Dans nos sociétés marquées par les débats autour de l’ "échec scolaire", de la "baisse de niveau", de la "reproduction de élites" ou encore des difficultés de recrutement du personnel enseignant, l’arrivée soudaine des outils d’intelligence artificielle générative, capables d’imiter la parole et l’écriture humaines avec une acuité troublante, a suscité autant d’enthousiasme que de craintes.
Apr 10, 2025
AI and Education: the Share of Humanity
Join us on May 20, 2025 in Paris for an exciting AI Summit !! In our societies marked by debates around "school failure", "drop in level", "reproduction of the elites" or difficulties in recruiting teaching staff, the sudden arrival of generative artificial intelligence tools has aroused as much enthusiasm as fear. How does the gradual installation of AI in education redefine the role of the teacher, the trainer, the professor?
Mar 31, 2025
Large Language Models seem to have passed the Turing Test. What does this mean?
In a recent study, various LLMS were tested against the Turing Test. ChatGPT 4.5 in particular was recently judged 'more human than humans' - 73% of participants believed it was the human in 5-minute conversations. For context, actual humans were only correctly identified 27% of the time.
Mar 21, 2025
Through the Porthole: The Reality of Rising Sea Levels
If you've ever wondered what the future might look like as the oceans rise, we can now see it thanks to useful visualisations and interactive tools from NASA. Read for more details...
Mar 14, 2025
Do you use ChatGPT to search the web? You probably shouldn't!
GenAI Search features get it consistently... wrong. A recent study evaluated eight leading Gen AI search engines. The results? Consistently poor citation practices, with over 60% of chatbot responses providing incorrect references to news articles.
Oct 08, 2024
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Short introduction to Artificial Intelligence - history, selected use cases, key concepts and forward-looking perspectives.
Sep 08, 2024
Keep that one alive, he always said "please"
Or: why being polite to our favourite LLM tools?
Aug 28, 2024
RiteAID - a compelling case for ResponsibleAI
The RiteAID scandal, a couple of years ago, is among my favorite ones to explain what IA bias is. Because it got relatively low media coverage in Europe, it is an interesting case of lectures and conferences. From 2012 until 2020, Rite Aid, a pharmacy chain in the US, installed facial recognition technology in hundreds of stores in hopes it would deter theft. What happened then?
The term "ResponsibleAI" will become obsolete as high-quality, trustworthy and safe Al becomes the norm. Just as we don't distinguish between "bridges" and "bridges that don't collapse", the qualifier "responsible" will become an unspoken expectation.
Aug 19, 2024
Who still remembers Theseus?
In the history of ancient Greek mythology, Theseus is the hero who navigated a labyrinth to defeat the Minotaur and ensure his escape by following a thread back to safety, given to him by Ariane. For those of us who are passionate about the history and potential of artificial intelligence, however, Theseus may evoke another thing altogether—a small, wooden mouse that represented some of the earliest but most impressivve steps in the development of artificial intelligence.
Jul 10, 2024
AI at the service of humanity: AI to help in the face of floods?
We still remember the two flash floods in Afghanistan in July 2023, the massive loss of life in Libya in September 2023 (5,000 deaths!), or even recently in China where floods and landslides were devastating. The floods in Qatar in April 2024 and images of the submerged airport and highways also made headlines. These events are no longer exceptions: they occur more and more frequently and now extend to all continents. A number of companies have worked over the past year on developing #AI solutions to help humans manage the risks associated with such flooding.