La guerre des cerveaux
For a long time, wars were fought with weapons, borders, and power struggles. Today, the battlefield has changed. The target is no longer just a territory or an army, but our way of thinking, our understanding of the world, our relationship with reality. It is no longer just a matter of influencing opinions: it is about sowing doubt, reshaping perceptions, and blurring the lines between truth, falsehood, and emotion. This is why we talk about cognitive warfare, a war that seeks to hack our minds. War of the Brains is a documentary series in which Raed Hammoud explores this emerging form of discreet and silent conflict. He meets with experts from various disciplines and backgrounds to gauge the extent of this new threat. In his quest for understanding, he encounters David Morin, an expert in disinformation and radicalization, Éric Sauvé, a former military intelligence officer, and Jonathan Durand-Folco, a researcher and professor specializing in the political and democratic issues of digital technology. To understand what these experts are teaching him, Raed engages in striking demonstrations: he tests how an algorithm works in a university classroom and flies into space in a hyper-fake created with Nadia Naffi, a researcher at the International Observatory on the Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology. We discover that while the human flaws used to influence the masses have not changed, the tools used to achieve this are undergoing a revolution. The series attempts to make visible this war without visible fronts, which often manipulates us without our awareness. We understand how a seemingly mundane action-filling out a psychological test on a digital platform-can influence an election campaign, or how a news story fabricated by a state can thwart ChatGPT's responses. Ultimately, the series prompts us to reflect: how can we protect ourselves individually and collectively? And what future awaits us in a world where our minds have become a battlefield?
La guerre des cerveaux is a 2026 documentary movie.