(Included at the end of this manifesto is a free self-assessment tool to evaluate your readiness for AI and help you move toward a more critical, responsible, and human-centered approach to its use) By Dr….
The Day AI Began to Organize Itself Without Us: Toward the Emergence of Sociotic AI
By Dr. Tawhid CHTIOUI, Founding Presidentof aivancity School of AI & Data for Business & Society; selected by Keyrus as one of the 25 most influential global figures in the field of AI and data…
War in the Age of AI:
When Algorithms Enter the Battlefield
By Dr. Tawhid CHTIOUI, Founding Presidentof aivancity School of AI & Data for Business & Society; selected by Keyrus as one of the 25 most influential global figures in the field of AI and data…
When AI Reaches the Level of Average Human Creativity: Schools and the Workplace Confront the End of a Comforting Myth
By Dr. Tawhid CHTIOUI, Founding President of aivancity, the leading school for AI and data A student turns in a brilliant paper. The ideas flow smoothly, are well-structured, and are original without being confusing. The…
2026: The surge in free AI courses from Microsoft, Google, Stanford, and MIT. Can we learn AI without learning about the world it is transforming?
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Humanity’s brain is heading into orbit: Google invents the cosmic cloud, while Europe stays on the ground
On November 5, 2025, Google did what few governments would have dared to imagine: it announced the launch, scheduled for 2027, of a constellation of satellites capable of performing artificial intelligence calculations directly from space.
What if AI forced us to stop paying teachers by the hour?
He walks into the classroom, just like every morning. But this morning, something has changed.
On his desk, his computer has already prepared the lesson plan, selected three videos appropriate for the students’ level, automatically sent the list of absentees to the school office, and identified—based on interactions from all of the previous day’s classes—which students are at risk of falling behind.
The platypus no longer exists: The internet has just switched sides to the machines
A ten-year-old boy sits down in front of the screen. Curious, he types in a word he heard at school but can’t quite picture: platypus. He wants to see what this funny animal looks like—one his classmates have described as an impossible mix of a duck and a beaver. He expects to laugh, to be amazed, to discover the whimsy of nature.
Grok’s new strategy: between algorithmic freedom and ideological drift, an unprecedented challenge for the democratic and educational future of our societies
In early July 2025, Elon Musk sparked yet another controversy in the already sensitive world of artificial intelligence. Grok, the chatbot developed by his company xAI, has just been reprogrammed to adopt a more direct, sometimes sarcastic, and often provocative tone. Its stated goal: to offer a broader “algorithmic freedom of expression” than that of other conversational models, which are deemed too moderate, too cautious, or excessively neutral.
Less certainty, more awareness: AI shows the way that schools dare not take
Just imagine. You ask a question to a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence, loaded with artificial neurons, gorged with planetary data, more connected than your teenager on a Saturday night, and it answers you, without blushing: “I don’t know.”