The French NGO La Quadrature du Net is very worried about the use of artificial intelligence in modern society.

Some of the AI-articles of La Quadrature du Net:

14 February 2025 – AI Action Summit: Accelerating, whatever the cost:

The Paris summit on artificial intelligence (AI) organized by France was held on February 10 and 11, 2025. It will go down in history as a great moment of acceleration. While French civil society is organizing, particularly through the coalition Hiatus launched on the initiative of La Quadrature du Net, to resist the surge of artificial intelligence, Europe is engaging in a headlong rush which, in the current context, could precipitate us towards a kind of techno-fascism.

7 February 2025 – Launch of the Hiatus Coalition, to Resist AI and its World:

This text is the founding manifesto of “Hiatus”, a coalition of a diverse range of French civil society organizations that intend to resist the massive and widespread deployment of artificial intelligence (AI). (…)
The massive deployment of artificial intelligence has become a political priority. Extending the rhetoric that has accompanied computerization for over half a century, promises abound to confer revolutionary virtues on AI and impose the idea that, provided certain risks are taken into account, it would necessarily be a vector of progress. The whole society is called upon to adapt to this new industrial and technocratic buzzword. Everywhere in public administrations, AI is set to proliferate, at the cost of an increased technological dependency. Everywhere in the private sector, managers are calling for AI to “optimize” work. Everywhere in our homes, in the name of convenience and a senseless race for productivity, we are pushed to adopt it.

31 January 2025 – Justice finally finds Briefcam unlawful:

Yesterday, we achieved a great victory before the Grenoble administrative court! In La Quadrature du Net vs the city of Moirans, Isère, we obtained a decision recognizing the illegality of Briefcam’s algorithmic video surveillance software. The court ordered the town to immediately stop using the software.

4 December 2024 – It’s not AI, it’s state-of-the-art exploitation:

La Quadrature du Net is now tackling a new front: the fight against the onslaught of artificial intelligence (AI) in all areas of society.