Barcelona, Spain – Jun 28, 2025 – Author : Gaelle Collas ( French Version )
We’re not facing a technology. We’re looking at a mirror. And what we see, or refuse to see, will change everything.
AI is not a new power. It’s an amplification of our own decisions, our blind spots,
and of what we believe (or want to believe) to be true.
It can save us time. But it won’t tell us what we really want to do with that time.
It can become a tool, and help us to… (put anything you want to avoid doing in the next days)
Or it can reveal how much we don’t know about what we want help with.
The real risk of AI isn’t what it is or will become.
It’s what WE become, or stop becoming, when we forget that it’s just like us.
AI is just a reflection, an image of ourselves.
One perspective among many.
It can help your business evolve and improve, optimise processes.
But it won’t make you invincible, or the best on the market, or a super-human.
It will enhance your intrinsic capabilities, those that you work on naturally by using it.
Remember: you can have the best weapon in the world: you won’t win the war with it,
but with your strategy, your reading of the terrain, your knowledge of the rules of the game.
Ask Sun Tzu, he made an art of it.
These tools concentrate a mass of information that we have no control over.
Neither in the knowledge nor in the real functioning of this “intelligence”
But then…
Do we really need to understand it to use it?
Do we really need to know what it’s talking about
to validate that it’s intelligent?
And if it were more intelligent than we are, would we even be able to see it?
Are we able to perceive its intentions, to understand if there’s a conscience between the lines? Or are we seeing there what we want to see?
How aware are you of your own level of knowledge? Of your intelligence? Of your conscience?
And even if you think you know them, how sure are you of yourself? Of your ability to discern your own biases,
your blindness, your culture, your personal myths?
How can AI do better than you,
if you’re not sure you understand yourself?
This is the real revolution of AI: it confronts us with our own limits.
And to the possibility of transgressing them, transforming them, surpassing them.
What kind of human will we become, thanks to, or because of AI?
What part of ourselves will we decide to augment?
Our powers? Our creative capacity?
A heightened awareness of the impact of our choices?
Or simply our own little personal interest,
punctual, immediate?
It’s not what AI can do that should worry us,
but what it reveals about what we really want.
Columnist – Gaelle Collas
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