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Giving Humans the Final Say Can Make AI Decisions Worse

September 14th, 2026
6 mins
Olivier Sibony

When algorithms outperform experts, human oversight may protect legitimacy... but it may also simply restore the errors AI was meant to correct.

Debates

Entrepreneurial Mentorship Is a Process of Updating Judgments

Using AI to analyze mentoring sessions, research from HEC Paris’ ION Management Science Lab reveals how mentors reassess startup ventures as new information and perspectives emerge. 

Thomas Åstebro, Carlos J. Serrano

Scaling Deep Tech Depends on Three Levels of Infrastructure

To realize their innovation potential, deep-tech ventures must manufacture the technology, integrate it into industrial systems, and rely on regulatory and financial frameworks that enable deployment.

Livia Kalossaka

The Planetary Challenge Is Now Industrial

Climate technologies, biotech and space provide answers to environmental crises, but they need to move from scientific discovery to industrial deployment that markets and institutions can trust.

Livia Kalossaka

Private French Firms Hire Fewer Young Workers in AI-Exposed Jobs

Between 2022 and 2026, permanent hiring in the private sector of people aged 21 to 29 fell almost 30% in France’s most AI-exposed jobs, against 7.5% in the least exposed.

4 min 30
Antonin Bergeaud

A Roadmap for Clean Tech to Drive Europe’s Net-Zero Strategy


Europe has world-class clean-tech assets, but a new research suggests their impact on the climate transition depends on connecting them through stronger innovation ecosystems.
 

5 minutes
Fernando J. Díaz López, Lillian Manning, Livia Kalossaka

Why High Development Doesn’t Necessarily Mean High Emissions

Across 119 countries, researchers find that very high levels of human development can coexist with radically different carbon footprints. It leaves richer economies more scope to cut emissions without sacrificing well-being.

4 min 30
François Gemenne

High School Students Drop Science when Scientists Become Role Models

One of the largest virtual education trials ever conducted found that videos of scientists and entrepreneurs changed what teenagers chose to study in college

4 min 40
Thomas Åstebro, Mathis Schulte

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