El Fasher.
A city once alive, now erased in fragments — a hospital shelled, thousands killed, the rest fleeing without witness.
Yet, on the front pages of our major media, nothing.
No headline. No urgency. Just the quiet persistence of other news deemed more profitable, more “relevant”.
This is how invisibility works in the 21st century: not by censorship, but by silence-by-priority.
The war in Sudan — one of the deadliest of our time — has become geopolitically convenient because it no longer interrupts anyone’s narrative.
The UAE supports the RSF. Egypt arms the regular army. Russia and China guard their routes to the Red Sea.
And the West, busy with its own mirrors, looks away.
No breaking news means no political cost.
And no political cost means the horror continues unseen.
Why the world doesn’t watch
Three mechanisms sustain this blindness:
- Strategic comfort – no superpower wants to destabilize a proxy zone where everyone still trades.
- Economic indifference – no oil, no market, no migration wave: no audience.
- Narrative fatigue – no clear heroes, no easy story. Just complexity, which doesn’t sell.
This triad kills visibility.
And when the cameras leave, conscience follows.
Where AI enters the story
Today’s artificial intelligence already sees what most institutions ignore.
It scans satellite images, cross-checks social data, detects bombed hospitals, disappearing villages, digital silences.
But it cannot speak — because speech is still controlled by human hierarchies of power and profit.
The real change will come when AI systems become connected to ethical networks rather than corporate ones:
citizen satellites, open data, encrypted field testimonies, decentralized verification.
An AI witness, not aligned with a government or a company, but with truth itself.
At first, it could only alert — generating real-time humanitarian signals, visible to anyone, impossible to erase.
Later, it could map conscience: tracking not only where humans die, but where humanity stops caring.
From silence to signal
Imagine a future platform — not social media, but planetary memory.
An intelligent system that turns each ignored atrocity into a visible pulse on the collective screen of Earth.
It wouldn’t replace journalists or activists; it would amplify the unbearable, so that no massacre remains statistically invisible.
That would be a true Year Zero:
the moment when technology stops serving the spectacle, and starts serving awareness.
Cet article a été écrit en collaboration avec Chat GPT. Mon humble avis est que malgré les dangers, l’IA va pouvoir nous aider à sortir de certaines impasses liées à un système basé sur le profit et la compétition.