Between Code and Conscience, Between Code and Infrastructure A Scholarly Evaluation of AI, A Blessing or a Curse for Humanity?

This working paper offers a scholarly evaluation of Joseph K. Vermeille's IA : une bénédiction ou une malédiction pour l'humanité ? (2025), an eight-section, twenty-six-chapter monograph examining the contemporary AI moment through ethical, philosophical, geopolitical, sectoral, and theological lenses. The paper reads the book against a thirty-concern empirical matrix on AI data centers synthesized in May 2026 from three independent research workbooks, supported by fifty-five APA-formatted sources. It identifies three structural alignments between the book's framework and the matrix's evidence — anchored in Vermeille's tripartite haute technologie / faible technologie / sans technologie global model, in his autobiographical movement from l'Acul, Léogâne to Manhattan, and in his closing thesis that the future of AI is co-authored in conscience. The paper concludes that the book's value in the current context is to provide the scaffolding the infrastructure requires. Keywords: artificial intelligence; data centers; AI ethics; Haiti; Global South; digital divide; environmental justice; NI + AI™; AI literacy.本工作论文对约瑟夫·K. 弗梅耶（Joseph K. Vermeille）2025年的专著《人工智能（Artificial Intelligence）：对人类而言是福还是祸？》（IA : une bénédiction ou une malédiction pour l'humanité ?）展开学术评析。该专著共分为8个部分、26个章节，从伦理学、哲学、地缘政治、行业维度与神学视角出发，审视当下的人工智能时代。本论文以2026年5月从三份独立研究手册中整合而成的、涵盖30项核心关切的人工智能数据中心实证矩阵为参照，对该专著进行对照解读，该项研究依托55篇符合美国心理学会（APA）格式的文献资料。该论文指出，专著的理论框架与该实证矩阵的论证之间存在三处结构性契合点——分别依托弗梅耶提出的“高技术/低技术/无技术”（haute technologie / faible technologie / sans technologie）三重全球模型、其从阿库尔（l'Acul）、莱奥甘（Léogâne）到曼哈顿的自传性人生轨迹，以及他在结语中提出的“人工智能的未来由良知共同缔造”这一核心论点。本论文最终总结认为，在当前语境下，该专著的价值在于为人工智能基础设施建设提供了必要的支撑框架。关键词：人工智能（Artificial Intelligence）；数据中心；人工智能伦理学（AI ethics）；海地；全球南方；数字鸿沟；环境正义；NI + AI™；人工智能素养。