In this ambivalent context, shared digital knowledge has also been the foundation for the development of Artificial Intelligence. Machines, through massive access to human-generated data (text, images, code, interactions), have been able to learn, process and imitate human language and thought. The network has thus become the collective brain from which AI has been able to draw to build increasingly sophisticated models of intelligence, capable not only of responding but also of creating and reasoning.

The rapidity of the advent of these cognitive technologies — the Internet and Artificial Intelligence — necessitates a reactive adaptive effort by human intelligence, which must extend its faculties to control a process with high potential, both positive and negative.