AI: How to Transform France
France does not merely lack reforms. It now lacks nerves, memory and, more than anything, speed.
In the courts, magistrates are drowning in case files. Court clerks are desperately understaffed and can no longer come up for air. Files are lost, forgotten, bogged down, while ordinary citizens wait for months or years for the State to do its most basic job: to decide, judge, transmit and enforce.
In the police, investigators are submerged by procedures, complaints, reports, cross-checking, repetitive tasks and archaic software that slows them down as much as it supposedly assists them. In hospitals, caregivers spend too much time entering, searching, repeating and justifying, and not enough time treating. In tax offices, prefectures, social services and ministries, the same exhaustion is everywhere: the State keeps producing text, forms, checks and queues, while its real capacity for action declines.
And civil society pays the bill.
Artificial intelligence can become the nervous system the French State lacks. Not a gadget AI. Not a digital showcase. Not a communication tool for ministries seeking modernity. A sovereign, secure, auditable, supervised, legally framed AI capable of absorbing the flood of text, detecting inconsistencies, structuring files, preparing decisions, accelerating checks, assisting public officials and restoring speed, memory and consistency to State action.
Tomorrow, a doctor will be able to confirm a diagnosis prepared by AI. A police officer will be able to supervise a complaint already structured and recorded by an AI agent, already cross-checked and legally qualified. A magistrate will be able to validate a decision draft prepared from the case file, case law and applicable texts. A tax officer will be able to deal with a complex anomaly instead of wasting days on standard checks. A mayor will be able to obtain an immediate synthesis of applicable rules, subsidies, constraints and risks for a local project.
The question is therefore no longer whether AI can help the State.
The question is whether the French State — or rather whether one man, one political leader, one chief, a real leader — will agree to use it to straighten out the nation before its own congestion condemns it.
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