Yann LeCun opens new avenues into World Model conceptual AI research in Europe

Today I read an exciting article at
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/01/22/1131661/yann-lecuns-new-venture-ami-labs/
.

This new venture, headquartered in Paris, aligns with the scope of the Call
for Evidence from the European Union for European sovereignty at:

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-opens-call-evidence-open-source-digital-ecosystems

In the past I have mentioned using the domains of discourse paradigm to
demarcate knowledge representation for artificial intelligence in order for
it to be application (environment) or if you will digital ecosystem
specific.

When I did an AI search to have an idea of similarities and differences
between domains of discourse and world models, in particular how they are
used in artificial intelligence modeling the following was returned to me:

https://www.google.com/search?q=what+are+the+similarities+and+differences+between+domains+of+discourse+and+world+models+&client=firefox-b-m&hs=LFYU&sca_esv=1a208481548ed92a&channel=ts&sxsrf=ANbL-n57bopbgUofwuY-6cpFHrRbFlPo5w%3A1769181115444&source=hp&ei=u49zaYLnF5-NwbkP_7qf0A4&iflsig=AFdpzrgAAAAAaXOdy2W7APhfLMabV8yPudkLinGBmb-N&ved=0ahUKEwjCsLSf-aGSAxWfRjABHX_dB-oQ4dUDCB4&uact=5&oq=what+are+the+similarities+and+differences+between+domains+of+discourse+and+world+models+&gs_lp=Egdnd3Mtd2l6Ilh3aGF0IGFyZSB0aGUgc2ltaWxhcml0aWVzIGFuZCBkaWZmZXJlbmNlcyBiZXR3ZWVuIGRvbWFpbnMgb2YgZGlzY291cnNlIGFuZCB3b3JsZCBtb2RlbHMgSN23A1DQGVjf-gJwAXgAkAEAmAHRAaAB5j6qAQYwLjYyLjG4AQPIAQD4AQGYAjugApVBqAIKwgIHECMY6gIYJ8ICDRAjGJ4GGPAFGOoCGCfCAgQQIxgnwgIFEAAYgATCAgsQLhiABBjHARjRA8ICBRAuGIAEwgILEAAYgAQYigUYhgPCAggQABiJBRiiBMICBRAAGO8FwgIGEAAYFhgewgIFECEYoAHCAgUQIRifBZgDKvEFAHjopGhONOuSBwYxLjU3LjGgB_uqA7IHBjAuNTcuMbgH60DCBwkyLTEzLjQ0LjLIB4MFgAgB&sclient=gws-wiz

What is important to note that we need both domains of discourse and world
models to create artificial intelligence that can be used in specific
digital ecosystems.
And both use graphs.

Now the following article hints at something that might just be what we
have been overlooking all the time:

Why consciousness can’t be reduced to code
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251224032351.htm

On biological and artificial consciousness: A case for biological
computationalism
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763425005251

What should strike you immediately is that our neural networks in our brain
are typically described and/or modeled as graph networks.

Somehow our brain is able to switch between domains of discourse and world
modeling constantly.

Domains of discourse set the conceptual frameworks, while the world
modeling through sensory input and perception processes resets conceptual
frameworks in the brain in real time, something already established in
current, recent literature.

Now today I received an announcement email through semantic-web@w3.org
about lectures in the program:
https://goblin-cost.eu/announcements/lunch-lecture-series/.

This is also a France based initiative and is EU COST funded.

We can see the AMI venture as a new avenue for research into both KR&R for
AI and world modeling in AI and using a combination of static and dynamic
graph modeling to emulate the biological computation paradigm.

And we can propose in the call for evidence exactly this avenue of
research, already present and indicate how EU COST can provide fast
tracking of research as intended as the objective of the Call for Evidence.

By the way I couldn't escape the coincidence that my last name also happens
to be French, so maybe I am biased, but then again my ideas are not.

And with the remarks of both Lagarde and von der Leyen about AI and digital
sovereignty it is abundantly clear that Yann Lecun has opened our eyes and
shown the path to new research.

Which brings us full circle.

Milton Ponson
Rainbow Warriors Core Foundation
CIAMSD Institute-ICT4D Program
+2977459312
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Aruba, Dutch Caribbean