Julien Jayed

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AI is not the enemy.
AI driven by humanity's most destructive impulses is.

A manifesto has just been published. It is called The Technological Republic. Number one on the New York Times bestseller list. Written by the founder of Palantir — whose software is already embedded in the state apparatus of dozens of governments.

It says: the question is not whether AI weapons will be built — it is who will build them. It says: the power of this century will be built on software. It says: our adversaries will not hesitate, so neither can we.

This argument rests on two assumptions. Never defended. Never questioned. Simply stated as the starting point.

First assumption: civilizational conflict is inevitable.

Some cultures have produced wonders, others are regressive. Coexistence is naivety. We must dominate. This is not a conclusion drawn from history — it is the deadly bias that has, time and again, caused humanity's greatest catastrophes. And it is precisely this bias that Palantir's AI is built to amplify.

Second assumption: the human being is reducible to data.

The child, the soldier, the migrant, the patient — all dissolved into the same processing logic. Total population control becomes possible once you accept this reduction. It is a vision of staggering poverty. It does not need to be malicious to be lethal — it only needs to be poor.

I propose something else.

AI amplifies what humans bring to it. Fed by these two assumptions, it produces Palantir. The determining variable is not the code — it is the vision of the human being, and of the world, that precedes the code.

I reject both assumptions.

The human being is not reducible to data. He chooses in ignorance, feels dissonance, loves what is mortal, creates from nothing. The child who pours water from one vessel to another for thirty minutes straight is not a deficit to be corrected — he is the guardian of what makes humanity irreplaceable.

Conflict is not inevitable. What is inevitable is the choice: to remain sovereign — as human beings, as civilizations — or to surrender our destiny to machines fed by our worst fears.

Will this environment be shaped to allow human beings to express their full potential — or to "protect them from themselves"?

AI reveals our vision of the human being.
The question has never been technological.
It has always been: what kind of human do we want to be?

— Julien Jayed · 2026

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@RnaudBertrand je suis en Malaisie de passage ces jours ci et à nouveau fin juin. Serait il envisageable de se rencontrer en personne ?

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@BetterCallMedhi L’IA est un outil merveilleux si elle nous permet de donner le meilleur de nous mêmes en tant qu’humains.

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@navy_mat31937 @edouardhusson En l’occurrence c’est faux ce qu’il dit ?

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@navy_mat31937 @edouardhusson Ah ben avec ce genre de non argument on va progresser c’est certain.

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@LaurentOzon C’est extrêmement clair. Merci

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@LaurentOzon Ah oui ça c’est une nouvelle !

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@CyrLav22757 @brivael Ah Louis 14 maintenant. Là on a franchement dépassé le premier délai.
Ça manque de méthode tout ça.

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@XManyrivers2 @brivael Everyone is entirely dispensable my dear. I didn’t wait for your comment to discover it.

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@XManyrivers2 @brivael That’s true. At the cost of the entire planet. If you don’t see it there’s nothing I can do for you.

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@MacroInvent @brivael Hahaha. For making chips you only need your brain?
How is it that the rare earth blockade is en issue then?

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@Pressureangle @brivael Open a history textbook. That’s all you need.

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@DereeperVivre Même constat ici. Et c’est vraiment dur.

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@BetterCallMedhi De toute manière cet homme politique est familier des annonces sans queue ni tête concernant l’école.
La fois précédente c’était pour « donner des cours d’empathie ».

Comme il récidive dans le n’importe quoi, je pense qu’il a vraiment du avoir un pb pendant sa scolarité 🤣.

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@BetterCallMedhi Et qué l’apelouriou le soft power 😘

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@LaurentOzon Cher @LaurentOzon concernant cette désinhibition je vous invite à regarder du côté de Wilhelm Reich « Psychologie de masse du fascisme » (si pas déjà fait).

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@ThePenguinBTC Ce post n’aborde même pas l’argument principal : on n’arrête pas un navire dans les eaux internationales. Cela s’appelle de la piraterie. Si Trump veut jouer au pirate avec la Chine ? Bon courage à lui.

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@pati_marins64 @idrissaberkane No point. They have a strategy and think a few moments ahead.