AI postures & principles

“Moving from designing peripheral functions to a systemic lever.”

AI should not be a surface gadget but a structural plate built into the route map. The approach is to (from the Manifesto):

• use AI as a specialised agent to check a backlog’s coherence or suggest maturity indicators;
• design fields of possibility where each peripheral layer (AI, data) becomes a lever of systemic transformation;
• ensure adaptive governance that puts ethical and regulatory standards (the AI Act) at the heart of collective decisions.

The postures of AI

• The specialised agent: it checks, compares, documents. It does not decide.
• The critical assistant: it understands, maps, produces, then looks for the flaws in what it has produced.
• The revealer: like the Little Prince in Design Infection, it looks where the official story cracks, instead of closing the gap.

Principles

1. The human answers for the tale

If a text or an image leaves the workshop, its author must be able to name themselves as fully responsible for what was produced. “It wasn’t me, it was the tool” is not an option. Source: Lessons from writing design fiction with AI.

2. Keep the layers apart

Fiction is not the real foundation, the commentary is not the image, the image is not the evidence. AI likes to glue back together what we separate: we stop it. Source: Lessons from writing design fiction with AI.

3. Keep the friction

Generative AI tends towards fluency and resolution. Contradiction, blind spots and unease are put back into the text by hand. Source: Lessons from writing design fiction with AI.

4. A hypothesis is not a fact

Every factual claim has its source. We distinguish what is sourced, what is a hypothesis and what remains to be checked. Source: the editorial charter, value 1.

5. Never invent lived experience

No memory, no emotion, no words are attributed to the author unless he wrote or said them. Source: the editorial brand book, working contract for an AI.

6. Make interventions visible

What AI adds can be seen: in purple in working copies, and through a mention in the site’s footer. Source: the editorial brand book; the entre-espace footer.

7. State the cost

Any production that required significant AI work ends with a note on the order of magnitude of its cost (light, moderate, substantial) and the model used. Source: the editorial charter, value 2.