The Minister of Higher Education is in favor of mandatory AI training modules.

"Perhaps" we need to "guarantee that in every higher education course, we have, at some point, modules that explain what artificial intelligence (AI) is and at the same time how it will revolutionize our jobs tomorrow," he told members of the AI ​​committee.

"These are questions you should be able to ask yourselves, whether you are in a philosophy teaching qualification or in your first year of a BUT in metalwork," he added.

"We need to move towards that, while obviously allowing extremely strong autonomy in the institutions," he specified, acknowledging that "it is not the ministry that sets the syllabus for each course."

Currently, "charters" of "good practices" are "being finalized with the various higher education institutions".

"The extreme speed of the adoption of certain uses of AI has had the effect of provoking reactions that are sometimes quite defensive on the subject," the minister recalled, while some voices are being raised to propose training courses labeled "without AI".

According to him, students must be "trained in artificial intelligence", "that is to say, they must understand the functioning, the advantages, but also the limitations of these tools".

"To do as some would like to make AI not exist and that artificial intelligence is a cloud which, like a well-known cloud a few years ago, stops at the borders of France, that's not how it works," he argued, judging "that we have to live with it."