French futurist warns AI agents will turn the digital divide into a rupture
emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-07
French futurist Michel Levy Provençal argues in a new column that the AI agent era has begun: OpenAI's Astra doesn't just answer questions — it sees, listens, reasons, uses tools and executes missions. He predicts an open-source AGI, likely from China, could emerge within weeks or months, making AI proliferation impossible to contain. The digital divide metaphor no longer fits; the coming gap will "tear apart" rather than separate. His upcoming book proposes a four-level method for moving organizations from individual AI use to a human-and-agent organization built on shared memory.
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