Video: Regulating digital attention capture, an Interview with Fabien Gandon
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Published on May 18, 2026
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Updated on May 18, 2026
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on the May 18, 2026
Fabien Gandon, 3IA Chairholder, answers our questions on one of today's most pressing digital challenges.
Fabien Gandon, 3IA Côte d'Azur Chairholder and AI researcher at Inria, and Franck Michel (research engineer at CNRS) recently published a tribune in Nice Matin calling for the regulation of digital attention capture.
In this short interview, Fabien Gandon explains how social media algorithms exploit our attention as a "raw material", and outlines the concrete levers that research can offer to address this "cognitive capture": informing citizens, restricting harmful practices, and incentivizing virtuous digital models.
In this short interview, Fabien Gandon explains how social media algorithms exploit our attention as a "raw material", and outlines the concrete levers that research can offer to address this "cognitive capture": informing citizens, restricting harmful practices, and incentivizing virtuous digital models.
