Science4All — Lê Nguyên Hoang
How AI works
Platform algorithms
What can I learn?
Polytechnique mathematician and Tournesol co-founder; deeper-dive videos on YouTube algorithms, AI ethics, information manipulation, and the mathematics of recommendation. More technically ambitious than most French-language AI content.
Core insight
Recommendation algorithms are optimisation problems — and what they optimise for (engagement, not truth or well-being) is a choice that produces predictable harms.
How to use it in daily work
Builds the deepest available French-language understanding of how recommendation systems work and why they produce the outcomes they do.
- After watching the YouTube algorithm series, you can explain radicalisation pathways to a worried parent with mathematical precision rather than vague concern.