RITME at TEDx PSB: Antagonistic Intelligence

On December 3, RITME took part in TEDxPSB, an event dedicated to a fascinating theme: “AI, Antagonistic Intelligence”.

Held at Campus Le Delta in Paris, the event brought together researchers, entrepreneurs, creatives, journalists, and AI experts around a compelling question: does artificial intelligence help us become more human, or does it risk replacing what is most unique about us?

An event that questions our future with AI

At Ritme, we closely follow the evolution of technologies that are reshaping scientific research. Taking part in this TEDx reflects our commitment to active monitoring, understanding real-world practices, and anticipating the challenges that researchers, engineers, data scientists, and laboratory managers already face.

AI is not merely a set of tools.
It transforms our relationship with health, knowledge, decision making, work, creativity, and ultimately, our humanity.

Cross perspectives on AI

The event gathered speakers from diverse backgrounds:

• Christopher Wangen, investment and financial education expert
• Alexia Borg, journalist at Le Figaro, specializing in tech, AI and innovation
• Othman Chiheb, Chief Marketing Officer at HBS
• Louis Veyret, CEO of Evodev
• Claire Zagnoli, Future of Work specialist at LittleBig Connection
• Laurent Sécaris, Creative Director at Canal+

Their perspectives converged around several essential questions.

     • AI and health

The rise of predictive medicine and the ability of AI to detect weak signals, even invisible biological “bombs,” raises a fundamental question:

Will we be able to use these tools to protect ourselves, or will they create a new divide between those who have access to these technologies and those who are left behind?

     • Emotions and intentions in AI

New sensors already make it possible to measure our emotions and better understand our reactions. These advances open promising perspectives for healthcare and for analyzing behavior, for example during focus groups. For now, AI does not truly understand emotions, which explains its occasional awkwardness. But the day it understands them and learns to simulate them, potentially expressing a form of intention, one question remains:

What will remain of us as human beings?

     • Solitude, robots, and human relationships

Conversational technologies and social robots are gradually taking root in our daily lives, driven by an anthropomorphism that leads us to create AI in our own image, sometimes even more perfect than humans themselves. If these machines offer listening, responsiveness, and comfort, a question persists:

Will we still be able to love others in all their imperfection, and can an artificial relationship, however reassuring, truly be enough in the long term?

     • Augmented work, not replaced work

Professions are evolving. Repetitive tasks are fading, while analytical, relational, and creative skills are becoming increasingly important. It is up to us to decide:

What do we want to keep, what are we ready to delegate, and how much meaning and responsibility do we want to continue carrying?

What this means for the world of scientific research

These insights resonate with what we observe daily alongside scientific teams.

With our EFFISCIANCE offering, we support researchers in integrating AI into their workflows, guided by three core principles:

• Using AI to strengthen scientific quality, data robustness, and traceability.
• Empowering teams to understand tools rather than endure them, through training, support, and co-designed practices.
• Embedding each AI project within an ethical, human, and organizational reflection, not only a technological one.

What we retain above all from this TEDx is that technology has no intention. Everything depends on our choices and what we decide to amplify.

The question is therefore not “what can AI do?” but rather: what do we want to do with AI?

At Ritme, we will continue to nurture this reflection and translate it into concrete support, integration, and training alongside research teams.

A warm thank you to the TEDx PSB organizers and all speakers for the quality and inspiration of this event.