4. Impact on society and social justice

The second theme invites us to look at the impact of AI tools, or AI in general, on life in society. To sum up this new perspective, let's leave the R&D laboratory and analyze the behaviors and interactions that tools make possible – in other words, their potential to transform society.

Given their cross-functional nature, AI tools have an effect on all areas of company activity. The example of ChatGPT is a good illustration of how a content-generating tool impacts all those who create or format texts, images and films, whatever their field of activity. Ethical analysis can remain at a general level (for example, by raising the question of adapting legislation) or focus on specific fields (for example, by crossing the ethics of medicine with the ethics of AI).

This part deals with three main issues: a philosophical method for posing...