AI and Defense: “We are developing targeting aids, but the algorithm will never replace humans”. Bertrand Rondepierre, director of the brand new ministerial agency for defense artificial intelligence (Amiad), responds to questions.

Amiad is the cornerstone of a vast plan intended to make France the leading military power in Europe on the use of this disruptive technology. At its head is a polytechnician who worked at Google, but whose career in artificial intelligence began within the Ministry of the Armed Forces.