Articles 2020

Depuis deux ans, je partage l’intuition, de plus en plus ancrée, que l’intelligence artificielle pose la question du partage des gains de productivité, comme la révolution industrielle du XIXᵉ siècle l’avait posée avant elle. À chaque fois, le capital s’approprie ces gains, au détriment du travail, au motif que c’est lui qui mécanise l’économie. L’argument n’est pas faux. Mais il oublie une vérité essentielle : le capital n’existe jamais seul. Il est toujours, d’une manière ou d’une autre, une cristallisation du travail humain. Karl Marx l’avait parfaitement compris.

Around 153 BCE, Cato the Elder, one of Rome’s most prominent senators, began ending every single one of his speeches with the same words: “Carthago delenda est”, or “Carthage must be destroyed”.

Thousands of rallies are expected across the U.S. on Saturday as part of the latest “No Kings” protest against the policies of President Donald Trump and his administration. Organizers said more than 3,200 events are planned in all 50 states for what they hope could be the largest single-day nonviolent protest in U.S. history. The two previous No Kings events attracted millions of participants.

US demand to own Greenland leaves little scope for compromise, and forcing the issue would entail end of Nato Greenland, with a population of fewer than 57,000, might not seem to be the territory on which the future of the relationship between Europe and the US, the viability of Nato as the world’s most successful defence alliance, or even the fractured relations between the UK and Europe would be determined. But battlefields are sometimes the product of chance, rather than choice. It now feels as if Donald Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on eight fellow Nato states for sending troops last week to support Greenland’s sovereignty may be one of those clarifying moments in which Europe had no option. Successive European leaders condemned Trump’s blackmail and intimidation on Sunday and they sounded as if they meant it.

En 2025, la vraie question n'est plus : "Faut-il faire quelque chose en IA ?", mais : "Sur quels 3 à 5 processus concrets allons-nous engager un vrai chantier de transformation, avec budget, sponsor et indicateurs clairs ?"

Les milliardaires des plus grandes économies au monde ont gagné l'année dernière 2.200 milliards de dollars, une somme qui aurait permis de sortir toute la planète de la pauvreté, a affirmé jeudi l'ONG Oxfam.

The UK has announced much harsher rules for asylum seekers including the prospect of more deportations for those whose applications fail. The US is trebling the size of its deportation force. The EU is doubling its border budgets. And in the coming decades, hundreds of millions of people might be displaced by ecological changes.

Alors que le développement de logiciels a été l’un des premiers domaines à adopter l’IA, celle-ci n’apporterait que des gains de productivité modestes par rapport au battage médiatique qui l’entoure, selon une récente enquête. Elle aurait même tendance à ralentir les développeurs, ceux-ci devant passer par des étapes de révisions rigoureuses pour corriger les hallucinations générées.

“We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems,” said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. “For me, what we’ve got to do now is hunker down.”

L’attaque meurtrière de Moscou contre Soumy dimanche a braqué les projecteurs sur cette région du nord de l’Ukraine, où Kiev affirme qu’une offensive russe est déjà en cours. Celle-ci viserait, selon les experts, à étirer les lignes de défense ukrainiennes. Elle donne aussi l’image d’une armée russe qui progresse, à un moment où le front de l’Est s’enlise dans une impasse sanglante.

Dans un entretien accordé à plusieurs médias français, le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, a estimé que l'interdiction imposée par les Occidentaux à Kiev de frapper le territoire russe en profondeur et l'aide insuffisante sont la cause des gains territoriaux de la Russie en Ukraine. Il a également affirmé que "le monde entier" souhaitait voir la Russie participer à un prochain sommet de la paix, et a abordé le sujet de son absence aux JO et la présidentielle américaine.

If currently implemented policies are continued with no increase in ambition, there is a 90% chance that the Earth will warm between 2.3°C and 4.5°C, with a best estimate of 3.5°C.

Unesco joint research dating back 15 years found violence and intimidation against about 750 reporters and 44 murders

Oil cartel warns ‘pressure may reach a tipping point’ and that ‘politically motivated campaigns put our prosperity’ at risk

Les ventes importantes de SUV thermiques de Hyundai-Kia, Volkswagen et Toyota annulent complètement les gains climatiques provenant des véhicules électriques de ces mêmes constructeurs, selon un rapport de Greenpeace publié mercredi, à la veille de l'ouverture de la COP28.

UK has led the way, with countries across the continent making mass arrests, passing draconian new laws and labelling activists as eco-terrorists

The UN Secretary-General’s Early Warnings for All Initiative (EW4All) is rapidly gaining ground. Action plans are being rolled out around the world to ensure that people know when dangerous weather is headed their way. Tajikistan has held a two-day national consultation, co-chaired by the Deputy Prime Minister and the UN Resident Coordinator in Tajikistan, and bringing together key stakeholders from state and international organizations, media and civil society. Ethiopia also held an inception workshop.

Solaire, éolien... les énergies renouvelables génèrent déjà près de 13 millions d'emplois dans le monde, a calculé le think tank REN21, qui déplore cependant que l'investissement dans ces énergies reste insuffisant en dépit de leurs bénéfices sociaux.

Several climate court cases have been stuck in legal limbo for years. Now they're about to get a lot more interesting.

In 2005, I was the lead counsel on behalf of the US in one of the biggest corporate accountability legal actions ever filed. That trial proved that the tobacco industry knew it was selling and marketing a harmful product, that it had funded denial of public health science, and had used deceptive advertising and PR to protect assets instead of protecting consumers.

La sociologue du travail française Dominique Méda a longuement étudié le monde du travail et ses mutations. Dans l'émission Tout un monde, elle interroge lundi la pertinence d'une recherche constante des gains de productivité dans un contexte de défi climatique, en évoquant les enjeux de la digitalisation et du regain de sens au travail.

Only the boldest leadership can unite the EU against the delusional tyrant in Moscow. The German chancellor has the chance to provide it

Dans la foulée de la crise énergétique, les centrales à gaz belges ont enregistré en 2021 des bénéfices records par rapport aux quinze dernières années, ressort-il d'une étude du régulateur de l'énergie, la Creg, citée dans De Morgen mardi.

Hugo Tagholm can clear a beach in minutes. He issues a raw sewage alert and everyone races out of the water. Swimmers hate sewage as much as sharks — no one wants to splash about in excrement. But even Tagholm gets it wrong sometimes and finds himself surfing a brown wave. “It’s pretty unpleasant paddling through effluent,” he says. “I avoid it at all costs.”

Scientists have warned that hydrogen could be a significant “indirect” contributor to the greenhouse effect when it leaks through infrastructure and interacts with methane in the atmosphere.

Experts say scientific advances are making it easier to attribute the damages of climate breakdown to companies’ activities. Businesses could soon be facing a fresh wave of legal action holding them to account for their greenhouse gas emissions, owing to advances in climate science, experts have warned.

InfluenceMap, a think tank that monitors corporate lobbying around climate change, reveals: while the 10 European airlines looked at for this report have received around €30 billion in bailouts during the pandemic – some of which came with conditions attached to encourage climate-friendly actions – most have simultaneously lobbied to delay new proposals to cut aviation emissions.

International lawyers, environmentalists and a growing number of world leaders say “ecocide”—widespread destruction of the environment—would serve as a “moral red line” for the planet.

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The growing popularity of SUVs is making it even harder to cut carbon dioxide emissions and meet climate goals. “Policy-makers need to find ways to persuade consumers to choose smaller and more efficient cars,” says Petropoulos.

We have here (in the Baltic Sea, about half a million tonnes of conventional munitions and about 40,000 tonnes of chemical weapons. Some of the conventional munitions are armed and may explode if moved. As for poisoning people and fish, we don`t have enough data to speak of probability. However, the bombs leak poisonous substances, the seabed is contaminated in their immediate vicinity (up to 250 m).