Dear all,
Can you hear the crowd cheering, the tension rising around the ring?
Welcome to what feels like the fight of the century.
In the right corner: Artificial Intelligence.
Fast, multitasking, tireless, no maternity leave, no coffee breaks.
In the left corner: Human Intelligence.
Slower, emotional, sometimes unclear… yet rich in intuition, flesh, doubt, and meaningful silences.
According to an IPSOS study for the World Economic Forum, more than one employee out of two fears being replaced by AI within the next five years. Half of the workforce.
This anxiety weighs heavily on our mental health and feeds uncertainty about the future of work. We once thought automation would replace hands. Today, it is our brains that are trembling.
Even so-called “protected” or “intellectual” professions such as analysts, writers, recruiters, lawyers, and creatives are starting to wonder: what will my intelligence still be useful for?
In 2024, AI no longer just codes. It writes reports, supports medical diagnoses, designs logos, corrects our spelling, answers emails, and even coaches emotions. It has become our colleague. Sometimes, our competitor.
As early as 2023, 65% of French workers believed AI would deeply transform their job (Cegos), and nearly one executive out of two admitted feeling concerned about their place in the organizational chart.
So who will win this fight? The threat feels very real.
Let’s take a generative AI like ChatGPT. How does it work?
It does not think. It calculates.
It predicts the next word based on a prompt, using statistical models trained on massive amounts of text.
In short:
AI = neural networks + probabilities + associative learning
It generates what is most likely, not what is most true, human, or poetic.
Our brain plays a completely different game.
It has executive functions located in the prefrontal cortex (right behind the forehead, where you frown when reading a passive-aggressive email). It regulates emotions, thoughts, and actions. It questions, deconstructs, imagines, invents.
AI does not doubt.
It does not understand.
It repeats.
Rather than fearing being replaced, we can ask ourselves a different question: what makes us human?
✔ Our emotions
✔ Our theory of mind (empathy, subtle communication, understanding intentions, philosophy and debate)
✔ Our bodily intuition
✔ Our ability to improvise, cooperate, and create connection
✔ Our capacity for care, presence, and vulnerability
These are strengths AI cannot offer.
AI is unbeatable when it comes to:
Automation
Speed
Endurance (zero bathroom breaks)
AI cannot:
Read emotion in a look
Support someone in crisis
Feel the beauty of a shared silence
Laugh until tears come
Hold you in its arms
Score: 1–1. Back to the center of the ring.
What if we used AI not to replace us, but to free us?
From noise, repetitive tasks, and the meaningless.
So we can reinvest what makes us irreplaceable: creativity, relationships, care, and attention to life.
For this to happen, management must change its score.
Less verticality, more aliveness.
Less control, more trust.
Less indicators, more presence.
The concern is real: AI is already replacing highly qualified jobs (analysts, lawyers, screenwriters, even actors). It risks short-circuiting our cognitive abilities. When thinking is outsourced, we slowly forget how to think for ourselves.
This is the moment to strengthen concentration, analysis, and critical thinking.
Above all, it is time to reinvest our plural intelligence: emotional, intuitive, bodily, creative.
The intelligence AI does not have: the intelligence of the body and the heart.
To return to Olivier Meier’s words: tomorrow’s manager will not be the one who controls everything, but the one who orchestrates talents, both human and artificial.
The one who knows how to make technology and heart play together.
Algorithms and emotions.
Learning to collaborate with AI without feeling threatened happens in three steps:
• Valuing non-automatable human skills: empathy, listening, creativity
• Training in technological tools, but above all in relational intelligence
• Establishing ethical frameworks for technology use and constantly questioning meaning and purpose
The real question is not whether we should fear AI. It is already here and evolving fast, whether we like it or not. Missing the train means staying on the platform.
The real question is: what do we want to use AI for?
Like every major transformation that shakes our world, this is a powerful opportunity to rethink our jobs and our lives. To put humanity, solidarity, beauty, philosophy, poetry, and care back at the center.
Remember: your intelligence is not measured by how fast you type.
It lives in the beauty of your doubts, the subtlety of your intuitions, and your ability to perceive what no algorithm can feel.
Take good care of yourself,
Alice
• Les Échos de l’IA: “Why AI will force us to be ‘kind’ at work” with Grégoire Borst
• Podcast Vlan: “Are ethics and AI compatible?” with Aurélie Jean
• “AI will not replace marketing” with Aurélie Jean
Want to go further with your team?
If these topics resonate with you and you would like to organize a conference or workshop to support your teams, let’s talk.
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