ABSTRACT

The formula coined by Huchon and Schmidt — ‘the information crisis is first and foremost a sign of a society in crisis’ — serves as the starting point for a reflection on the epistemic and social effects of contemporary hyperconnectivity. This article examines how information and communication technologies, and artificial intelligence in particular, simultaneously produce advances in access to knowledge and profound regressions in the quality of social bonds and critical thinking. Drawing on empirical observations from the Malian context — notably the transformation of the grin as a space of sociability — and mobilising the conceptual resources of Karl Popper’s critical rationalism, Bachelard and Bouveresse-Quilliot, the article shows that the rampant individualism generated by social networks constitutes the structural breeding ground for fake news. It proposes a refounding of humanism based on a rational and critical use of digital tools, as the only bulwark against the alienation of human intelligence by its own creations.

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