There are years when choosing the dossier (and, therefore, the front page) of our magazine gives rise to hesitation, even debate. This was not the case with the "365" 2024 vintage that you have in your hands: artificial intelligence was an obvious choice. First of all, because this revolution is huge: Sundar Pinchai, the boss of Google, says it is more important than those of the PC, 50 years ago, or the consumer Internet, 30 years ago, which we know how much they have changed the lives of all of us! Secondly, because its speed is unprecedented: AI progress is daily and spectacular. Finally, because, for the first time in history, a technological breakthrough will shake the most qualified employees harder than the others. Chat-GPT is certainly destined to enter all homes (and all workplaces), but it is the "higher" professions that are the first to be confronted with both the benefits and the formidable competition of AI. We asked Cedric Villani, our math genius, who is also the author of a remarkable report on AI, to help us decipher the reality. Exciting. We also wanted to understand how journalists, lawyers... but also the communicators were going to be impacted. And, more broadly, what companies should do to ensure that their employees take ownership of it.
AI is also, alas, in the age of networks, a wonderful tool for the merchants of lies and other authors of state manipulation. The last few months have been marked by the intensification of the information war, which we are discovering, revelation after revelation, how much it threatens our democracies. You will plunge, with our Grand Witness, the specialist in the history of propaganda David Colon, into the mysteries of disinformation.
This edition will also allow you, among other things, to better understand "negotiated justice", the growing role of public affairs in the territories or the reasons for the return of the "newsletter", but also to discover the backstage of the negotiations between social partners... and the springs of the psychosis of "bed bugs".
Happy reading!