AI for Science

In 2026, AAAI, one of the world's largest artificial intelligence conferences, received twice as many submissions as the year before. On the journal side, some platforms report 33% more submissions in the first quarter of 2026 than in the first quarter of 2025, after a 2025 that was already up 17%. Desk rejections grew by 72% between 2022 and 2025.

In my previous essay, I developed a political idea: sovereignty does not stop at the choice of model, it includes the way we design what the tool does, for whom, and according to what logic. I called this “conception of use”. Several readers asked me the same question: what does that mean in practice?