{"id":55435,"date":"2025-12-16T14:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=55435"},"modified":"2025-12-18T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T08:58:12","slug":"uni-lu-student-wins-international-prize-for-scifi-short-story-on-ai","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/news\/uni-lu-student-wins-international-prize-for-scifi-short-story-on-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"A Uni.lu student wins an international prize for a sci-fi short story on AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p>Pierre Yvan Belinga Meka, a student in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/fhse-en\/study-programs\/master-en-etudes-parlementaires\/\">Parliamentary Studies at the University of Luxembourg<\/a>, recently won the Audience Award in the international francophone writing competition organised by the <em>Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie<\/em> (AUF) and <em>Radio France Internationale<\/em> (RFI) (RFI-AUF 2025). The competition, open to young people under 30 from the Francophone world, received 330 submissions from 44 countries. The imposed theme was forgetting.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his science-fiction short story <em>\u00ab Ce que l\u2019oubli enfante \u00bb (\u201cWhat Forgetting Gives Birth To\u201d)<\/em>, Pierre Yvan explores the boundary between memory and fiction through Mira, an artificial intelligence that learns from human memories via algorithms, while gradually erasing the humanity of its host.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-highlight quick-link-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-highlight-item\">\n    <a\n                    href=\"https:\/\/short-edition.com\/fr\/oeuvre\/ce-que-loubli-enfante\"\n                    class=\"quick-link\"\n            target=\"\"\n    >\n            <span class=\"quick-link__container\">\n                <span class=\"quick-link__body\">\n                    <span class=\"quick-link__number\">\n                        Read the short story                    <\/span>\n                    <span class=\"quick-link__title\">\n                        Ce que l&#8217;oubli enfante                    <\/span>\n                    <span class=\"quick-link__action\">\n                                            <\/span>\n                <\/span>\n                <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-right \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-right\"><\/use><\/svg>            <\/span>\n    <\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quote-people\">\n    <div class=\"quote-people\" role=\"group\">\n        <figure class=\"quote-people__body\">\n            <blockquote class=\"quote-people__blockquote\">\n    <span class=\"quote-people__quote\">\u201f<\/span>\n    <em>Forgetting is fascinating because it sits at the boundary between memory and fiction, between what we have lived and what we can still imagine. We write because we no longer remember everything clearly: we have to fill in the gaps, reinvent what is falling apart<\/em>.\u201d\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__visual\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka.jpeg\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka-682x1024.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka-768x1153.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka-1023x1536.jpeg 1023w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16115427\/Pierre_Yvan_Belinga_Meka.jpeg 1066w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 51.00% 18.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 51.00% 18.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 1\/1; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>    <\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-wrapper quote-people__figcaption\">\n<p class=\"quote-people__author wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Pierre Yvan Belinga Meka<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"quote-people__position wp-block-unilux-blocks-plain-text\">Prix du Public des Jeunes \u00e9critures RFI-AUF 2025<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-simple-cta\">\n    <a\n        href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/pierre-yvan-belinga-meka\/\"\n        title=\"View Profile\"\n        class=\"link-text link-text--icon quote-people__link\"\n        target=\"_blank\"\n    >\n        <span class=\"link-text__body\">\n            <span class=\"link-text__name\">View profile<\/span>\n        <\/span>\n        <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--external-link \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--external-link\"><\/use><\/svg>    <\/a>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n        <\/figure>\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-spacer is-spacer-size-sm\"><\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"ai-forces-humans-to-redefine-themselves\"\n    >\nAI forces humans to redefine themselves<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Pierre Yvan sees <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uni.lu\/en\/artificial-intelligence\/\">artificial intelligence<\/a> as a form of <em>\u201ccontemporary tabula rasa,\u201d<\/em> a \u201c<em>neutral<\/em>\u201d tool that destabilises the idea of humans as the sole beings capable of creation, of producing art, literature, and more. By challenging our assumptions about creativity, AI, he argues, forces us to redefine ourselves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Faced with AI\u2019s creative capacities, he insists on what remains indisputable: <em>\u201cMachines produce results; humans feel and convey emotions. AI is not a threat, but a catalyst for human reinvention. It forces us to redefine what makes humans unique: sensitivity.\u201d<\/em> Rather than seeing art and technology as separate, he advocates <em>\u201cworking with AI, not for AI\u201d<\/em>\u2014using the tools without delegating invention to them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"a-tribute-to-linguistic-polyphony\"\n    >\nA tribute to linguistic polyphony<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image  object-fit--cover\">\n    \n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-block-image unilux-custom-image-block\"\n                alt=\"\"\n            src=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan.webp\"\n                srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan-212x300.webp 212w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan-724x1024.webp 724w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan-768x1086.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan-1086x1536.webp 1086w, https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2025\/12\/16120029\/pierre-yvan.webp 1280w\"\n                style=\"object-position: 50.00% 50.00%; font-family: &quot;object-fit: cover; object-position: 50.00% 50.00%;&quot;; aspect-ratio: 2\/3; object-fit: cover; width: 100%;\"\n        loading=\"lazy\"\n\/>            <p class=\"wp-block-dev4-reusable-blocks-image-caption\">\n            Photo: Pierre Yvan Belinga Meka        <\/p>\n    <\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p>His text weaves together a polyphony of languages, from Creole to Malink\u00e9, paying tribute to a heterogeneous collective memory. Cameroon, Alexandria, Luxembourg: his multicultural journey feeds a writing of passage\u2014between technology and poetry, Africa and Europe, memory and anticipation of the future.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of his key lessons about forgetting and openness to new cultures? <em>\u201cTo learn better, we must accept to unlearn, to learn how to learn. Forgetting allows us to unlearn, to put aside our limiting beliefs that prevent us from living fully alongside our fellow human beings from other cultures.\u201d<\/em> He therefore advocates a fruitful view of forgetting: \u201c<em>Forgetting, sometimes, allows us to unlearn in order to learn better and open up to others.\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br>Empowered by this award, Pierre Yvan is preparing his first novel, an extension of his short story, which he hopes to publish in Luxembourg: <em>&#8220;I want to convey the beauty of a deeply<\/em> <em>multicultural and multilingual country. I come from Cameroon, a country with more than 280 languages, where cultural diversity is a central question. After studying at Universit\u00e9 Senghor in Alexandria, in a cosmopolitan environment, and my experience in Luxembourg, a deeply multicultural and multilingual country, I am convinced that the future of the world belongs to cultural and linguistic diversity.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<section class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-free-section section\"><div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n<p>Pierre Yvan now started a Phd in political sciences at the University of Luxembourg.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<section class=\"section section wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover-section py-0\">\n    <div class=\"container xl:max-w-screen-xl\">\n        \n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-unilux-blocks-heading\"        id=\"discover-also\"\n    >\nDiscover also&#8230;<\/h2>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover quick-link-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-unilux-blocks-quick-link-discover-item\">\n    <a\n                    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Luxembourg Institute for Digital Ethics (ULIDE)                <\/span>\n                <svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" class=\"icon icon-outline icon--arrow-right \"><use xlink:href=\"https:\/\/www.uni.lu\/wp-content\/themes\/unilux-theme\/assets\/images\/icons\/icons-outline.svg#icon--arrow-right\"><\/use><\/svg>            <\/span>\n    <\/a>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n    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