Marcel Salathé on AI: "We've never lost control, and I don't see why we should today"

A biologist and epidemiologist, Marcel Salathé was one of the most high-profile faces of the Covid-19 crisis. A member of the Confederation's task force and designer of the SwissCovid application, he defended a science connected to societal issues. Five years later, he has turned the page on viruses to plunge into another form of global contagion: that of artificial intelligence (AI).