How sci-fi writers are helping the French military train

Earlier this summer, we shared news of Germany’s “Project Cassandra,” which analyzed literature in an attempt to predict various political crises.

That’s not the only military-literary partnership, as it turns out.

Literary Hub shared a short post, using reporting from Le Monde and WorldCrunch, about the French Military of Defense’s latest project with the University of Paris Sciences and Lettres.

Science-fiction writers from the latter dream up scenarios that could put France in danger in the next few decades; academics in AI and tech fact-check the scenarios for plausibility; and the military develops a plan to handle the situations.
Apparently, you can even preview a few of these scenarios online.

Lit Hub’s summary includes links to the original reporting as well as the two publicly available crisis scenarios.

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