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Essay — Forthcoming October 22, 2026 — PUF

Du bon usage
de l’IA en médecine

Foreword by Corine Pelluchon Ethics & philosophy of care

Artificial intelligence is set to transform medicine irreversibly. What remains to be seen is whether it will empower caregivers — or reduce them to mere operators.

An intensive care physician and doctor of philosophy, Cyril Goulenok examines, in this essay, the temptation of a medicine dominated by its own tools — and proposes a path of reconciliation he calls technosophy.

Couverture du livre « Du bon usage de l'IA en médecine » de Cyril Goulenok, préface de Corine Pelluchon, éditions PUF

The argument

Care is first thought, then carried out. To split the two — entrusting thought to AI and action to the caregiver — would produce a schizophrenia of care. From the back cover

Three movements

From hope
to vigilance

The oracle

AI as deus ex machina, handing the physician a digital truth and relieving him of the burden of decision.

The blindness

The risk of a Promethean blindness: predictive myopia, impaired vision, then the caregiver’s cognitive blindness.

Technosophy

A path of co-care, combining human and technology, toward a convivial medicine centred on the common good.