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“Red team”: science fiction authors serving the armed forces

2020-12-05T22:20:29.571Z


Florence Parly, Minister of the Armed Forces, unveiled this project on Friday designed by the Defense Innovation Agency in order to reflect on the wars of the future.


Flip-flop cell phones?

See

Star Trek

.

Artificial intelligence?

See

Blade Runner

, the plot of which is set in 2019. Sometimes science fiction turns into reality.

It will now be placed at the service of the Ministry of the Armed Forces to imagine the conflicts of the future.

On Friday, Minister Florence Parly unveiled the “Red Team” project.

Imagined by the Defense Innovation Agency, it is made up of ten authors and designers responsible for thinking about scenarios and

"breaking through the wall of the imagination"

, observed AID director Emmanuel. Chiva.

“Scare us.

Challenge us, ”

he added.

If the Red Team, supervised by a team of experts and an institutional coordinator, at the University of Paris Sciences et Lettres, will remain in a

"cone of plausibility"

, it will not refrain from anything.

Unlike a classic foresight exercise, carried out by the armed forces, it will add

"a desire to change the rules of the game"

to allow

"a vertigo experience"

,

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Source: lefigaro

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