“Artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says Christophe Agnus, author of Thrillers

“The army of Edward” seduced readers. Furthermore, “predators” plays on the same register, what can we say about your two works?
I will give the floor to the readers who tell me, generally: “If it could be true …” Some also thank me for preventing them from sleeping because they absolutely wanted to know what was going to happen. Similarly, I think it was this double dimension that they liked: a “Turner page” that they could not let go. However, but which also made them think, with a “artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says little cathartic side … In addition, It is undoubtedly for that. However, too, that the adaptation rights were taken by the producer of the series “La Casa de Papel”.

Can we qualify your works as ecological thrillers?
Difficult to define. Similarly, but criticisms have often used two American authors to talk about my books: Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy. Moreover, So I will talk about Thriller Techno-Politico-Écolo, but does that still make sense? Moreover, My novels tell the fight against greed. However, destructive greed, with a fairly strong adventure dimension, by staging characters that we can really meet in real life. For those who doubt it. I even added in “The predators” a postface which explains that what seems incredible has often happened …

We find the same protagonists but can the two works read independently?
“The predators” are a sequel that was not planned. It was “artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says the readers who asked me. And I wanted. if we obviously gain in having read “Edward’s army”, we understand perfectly what is going on by reading “the predators” first. When you read a Tom Clancy. you don’t need to have read all the adventures of Jack Ryan before to understand.

IT systems are at the center of the plot, but also of reality since news reports on regular data hacks …
We have passed. in thirty years, in a world where everything is interconnected via digital, computers, and where hackers have become extremely powerful. For our comfort and make life easy, we have created new vulnerabilities that can be more dangerous than ever. And artificial intelligence increases all this exponentially. For a novelist, it’s a great playing field … But the idea is also that the reader realizes all of this.

The plot takes place worldwide, but our region is at “artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says the center of the story, how?
They are also adventure novels, with action. And Occitania, where I have been living for 15 years now, appeared to me as a perfect ground for several highlights. There are the Pyrenees. a nearby border, the sea, areas like the black mountain where the Cévennes where can easily disappear … magnificent, right?

Does writing such novels constitute a form of commitment to you?
Partly, because I think that culture has a big role to play to educate the general public on important issues. They can be technological, ecological, political … A thriller provides entertainment with meaning also. I am not proud enough to think that my opinion on all this must go through a very serious essay. and as I love telling stories, I attach the useful, the meaning, to the pleasant, by writing novels …

Apart from your writer’s activity, does your publisher profession bring “artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says his share of satisfaction?
Nautilus editions are above all dedicated to the maritime world. With stories, documents, novels. We publish 3 to 5 pounds per year. With the pleasure of regularly receiving important prices such as the Prix de l’Académie de Marine. the Sapp Prize for the underwater novel “The Prix du Silence”, or the Commander Jean Loreau price for “The colors of the gray boats”.

Besides, you recently endorsed the press pattern coat, which project do you carry?
I have leaded the cooperative that has taken up “Pyrénées Magazine” since 1^is January. It is a project of collective interest to restore a new life to this emblematic title of the Pyrenean. massif which has existed for 36 years. The idea is to strengthen the position of the magazine as an actor of Pyrenean life. The team is very motivated. and it is a great project to which we want to associate “artificial intelligence increases vulnerabilities,” says as many people as possible.