Essay — Published October 22, 2026 — PUF
Du bon usage
de l’IA en médecine
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.
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.
