Books
All of Gilles Babinet’s books are published in French.
Le Passeur · 2026
Le Péril IA
Becoming machines, or staying alive?
In just a few years AI has changed how we work, how we get our news and how we relate to one another, down to our sense of what is true. It has become an invisible infrastructure that shapes our behavior faster than we can grasp the consequences.
The book sets out a choice: keep turning ourselves into machines, or reconnect with the symbolic side of human life that has carried us for centuries, and build a new humanism on it.
Previous books
Odile Jacob · 2024
Green IA
Artificial intelligence in the service of the climate: from the footprint of digital technology to what AI can bring to the green transition, with concrete cases in supply chains, housing, mobility and industry.
Odile Jacob · 2023
Comment les hippies, Dieu et la Science ont inventé Internet
How hippies, God and science invented the Internet: the handful of engineers who built it, the turbulent story that followed, and what it tells us about AI and how to regulate it.
Earlier books
- Refondre les politiques publiques avec le numérique
Rebuilding public policy with digital technologyDunod, 2020 - Transformation digitale : l’avènement des plateformes
Digital transformation: the rise of platformsLe Passeur, 2016 - Big Data, penser l’homme et le monde autrement
Big data: a new way to think about people and the worldLe Passeur, 2015 - L’Ère numérique, un nouvel âge de l’humanité
The digital era, a new age for humanityLe Passeur, 2014