Every day, artificial intelligence interferes a little more in our lives: it sorts our emails, anticipates our movements, corrects our words, and soon our gestures.
Every day, artificial intelligence interferes a little more in our lives: it sorts our emails, anticipates our movements, corrects our words, and soon our gestures. We fear it, we fantasize about it, we consume it. Yet the real issue is not so much whether AI will replace us, but how it is already transforming us.
We see it as a neutral tool, while it acts like a mirror. What it reveals is not just the effectiveness of an algorithm, but the way in which we treat our own humanity: our relationship to time, to care, to vulnerability. AI, in reality, confronts us with our contradictions.
From power to responsibility
The power of AI lies not so much in its computing power as in its ability to detect the invisible: weak signals, imperceptible behaviors, future risks. In health, this capacity can become an invaluable lever: prevention before healing, anticipation rather than repair.
But this promise only has value if we know how to frame it without stifling it.
Three projects are required.
1. Ethics, first
Medical AI cannot be a black box.
Data is not a loot to be exploited, but a trust to be preserved. Transparency, consent and traceability are not options: they are foundations.
2. Diffusion, then
AI must not remain a luxury of well-resourced hospitals or rich countries.
If it widens the gaps between territories or generations, it betrays its reason for being.
Technological innovation only makes sense if it expands the circle of health.
3. Finally, trust
Distrust of AI reflects less fear of the machine than fear of abandonment.
When technology advances faster than human speech, it is the social bond that cracks.
It’s up to us to show that artificial intelligence can also be integrated into an act of care and a way of listening differently to the body and its signals.
Because beyond the fears and the promises, a question remains: what do we want to treat with AI?
Towards long-term medicine
We are at a turning point.
Medicine in the 21st century will not only be curative, but predictive.
AI opens the way to a more proactive approach to health: detecting a disorder before it sets in, acting before memory fades, giving time back to life.
We still need to agree to rethink our model: moving from crisis medicine to anticipation medicine, from a reflex of repair to a culture of prevention. It is a cultural change, not just a technological one.
AI, a mirror of our choices
Artificial intelligence will not replace humans but will reveal the quality of our collective choices.
It can become a tool of domination or an instrument of emancipation.
It all depends on what we decide to do with it.
Rather than fearing AI, let’s make it an ally: not to think for us, but to help us take better care of life, in all its fragilities.
