Bruno Patino, New President of ENSP Arles, Warns AI Enables Cloning of Artworks
On July 7, Bruno Patino, who is the president of Arte France, was named the new president of the board at the École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP) in Arles, taking over from Régine Hatchondo. A media expert, he has held positions such as general director of Le Monde Interactif and deputy general director at France Télévisions. In April, he released a critical essay titled Le Temps de l’obsolescence humaine, focusing on artificial intelligence. In an interview with Le Journal des Arts, he addressed the profound economic, political, and ethical implications of AI, stressing its anthropological effects and the dangers of information invisibility and standardization in generative AI. This interview appeared in Le Journal des Arts no. 683 on September 18, 2026.
Key facts
- Bruno Patino was appointed president of the board of the École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP) in Arles on 7 July.
- Patino is president of Arte France and previously held roles at Le Monde Interactif and France Télévisions.
- In April, he published Le Temps de l’obsolescence humaine with Grasset, a critical essay on AI.
- He succeeded Régine Hatchondo as ENSP board president, proposed by director Véronique Souben.
- Patino stated that AI allows the cloning of artworks, referencing Walter Benjamin's 1936 essay.
- He warned of risks including invisibilization of information and standardization of generative AI outputs.
- He cited the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge), led by Elon Musk from January to May 2025, as an example of data inaccessibility.
- The interview appeared in Le Journal des Arts no. 683 on 18 September 2026.
Entities
Artists
- Bruno Patino
- Walter Benjamin
- Elon Musk
- Véronique Souben
- Régine Hatchondo
- Christine Coste
- Gilles Bechet
- Pierre Noual
- Édouard Baldus
- Éva Hameau
- Olivier Tosseri
- Benoît Schoonbroodt
Institutions
- Arte France
- École nationale supérieure de la photographie (ENSP)
- Le Journal des Arts
- Le Monde Interactif
- France Télévisions
- Grasset
- Rencontres de la photographie d'Arles
- Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)
- École supérieure d’art et de design de Reims
- École européenne supérieure de l’image, Poitiers
Locations
- Arles
- France
- Belgium
- Italy
- Reims
- Poitiers