Post by Matthieu Yziquel

Frank Herbert wrote Dune in 1965. I never expected that novel to help me better understand my work in Chad in 2026. A conversation with Claude, as part of an AI fluency training course, brought to the surface something I had been carrying confusedly without ever managing to articulate it clearly. One day, a chadian staff member said to me, speaking of the NGOs and UN agencies that had been present on his territory for years: “Misery makes people rich.” I did not hear it as bitterness. I heard it as a diagnosis. The article I am publishing today starts from there: from Dune, from a conversation with Claude and from that sentence. It does not claim to resolve what thirty years of collective humanitarian practice have not resolved. It raises questions that I believe need to be asked for as long as we are still inside to ask them. #HumanitarianAid #Nexus #ArtificialIntelligence #Dune #Chad