Opening symposium 2025-2026
Forms of intelligence : AI, knowledge, deduction, learning
The rise of AI is challenging, if not the practices, at least the epistemologies of all disciplines. What's more, this technological advance is having such powerful (and unpredictable) political, economic and social repercussions that it's prompting the Collège de France to rediscover its original mission : to put science before society. That's why we're devoting this year's opening symposium to it, with a resolutely interdisciplinary approach. The aim is by no means to catalog, or display, everything that the sciences expect or fear from AI, by remaining in the register of uses. The aim is not to replicate the numerous initiatives, whether public or institutional, that AI is generating today. On the contrary, we propose to focus our reflections on a central question : how can the current mutations of AI relate to the long-term understanding of the idea we have of the forms of intelligence - or, more precisely, of the relationships between learning, knowledge and deduction ?