Technologies

Let us try to bring together two observations:

1. Collectively, we are surrounded by a constellation of Wicked problems[1] of planetary scale and accelerated temporality (climate change in the Anthropocene, erosion of biodiversity, global health and poverty, total wars, latent pandemics, radical dis-embedding of the economy outside of the social and political). Some people even see Artificial Intelligence as the latest in Wicked problems (characterized by chaotic global governance, explosion of regulatory needs, unprecedented epistemological ruptures, threats to fundamental social arrangements — work, individual freedoms , expertise — and a proliferation of data and interconnected systems to the detriment of human production and creation)
2. Currently, Tech designers are so consumed by the political and media demand, the creation of business opportunities, and attempts to avoid AI being included in the list of Wicked problems (attempts to strengthen acceptability through policies oriented towards trust, sovereignty, security, data preservation and respect for cultural identities) that they adopt without question the most conventional and agreed meanings of the categories which structure our explicit or implicit conceptions of the world, whether it is a question of National Sovereignties, Cultural Identities, Public Policies, or Intersubjective Trust (spontaneously extended to digital devices)

The hypothesis explored here is that a simultaneous re-investigation of these agreed conceptions could make it possible to create new conditions for the use of AI to help overcome the Wicked problems that surround us.