Book review "Géopolitique de l’IA. Les relations internationales à l’ère de la mise en données du monde"
Résumé
On 30 November 2022, a Californian start-up, OpenAI, announced the official launch of an Artificial Intelligence (ai) based chatbot prototype whose core function is to mimic human conversations. Indeed, ChatGPT is capable of giving detailed and accurate responses to the trickiest questions across many different areas of knowledge, including International Relations, within seconds. Despite its astonishing technological capacity, this new technology has stirred worldwide debate around both the limits and the opportunities of computer-human intellect and computer-human interactions. Nonetheless, are ai-driven tools powerful enough to completely replace humans as political analysts or diplomats? In their book Géopolitique de l’IA, Jamal Atif, Peter Burgess, and Isabelle Ryl clarify the role of ai in contemporary International Relations and explain how ai changes the conventional understanding of geopolitics as the study of the impact of geography, largely speaking, on international political relations.