What will artists refuse to give AI ?

Every time we ask an algorithm to write or compose on our behalf, something of agency shifts. In Faussaires Algorithmiques, technology ethicist Louis de Diesbach argues that what AI quietly undermines is not quality but authorship.

Built on over 120 conversations with artists, philosophers, and lawyers, Faussaires Algorithmiques traces creativity's resistance to optimisation, and outlines what cannot be generated by technology: the intention behind a work, the struggle it demands, the surprise it can still produce.

To explore these ideas, Louis de Diesbach invited one of the artists he interviewed for the book: Belgian DJ and producer Henri PFR, whose practice sits at the crossroads of electronic precision and emotional instinct.

In conversation with Simon Brunfaut, Louis de Diesbach and Henri PFR will explore how AI has reshaped artistic practices, where agency and creativity sit in this new context, and what remains too fragile, too alive, to be handed over. Ultimately asking: are we prepared to delegate not just our tasks, but the experience of making itself? And if so, what remains of us in the work?

The evening will conclude with a book signing of ‘Faussaires algorithmiques’ (l’aube, 2026) with Louis de Diesbach.