Emmanuel Macron Promotes AI Ethics by Deepfaking Himself Into a Disco Fever Dream

In a bold act of leadership, French President Emmanuel Macron electrified Instagram by posting a montage of deepfake images of himself, featuring a highlight reel of 1980s disco glory. The video, meant to promote the Paris AI Summit, featured “Macron” with dramatic mullets, questionable neon outfits, and dance moves that raise serious concerns about France’s cybersecurity—if not its taste in music.

“This is a visual representation of the power and dangers of artificial intelligence,” Macron declared while adjusting a non-existent headband. “Also, I look fantastic with a perm.”

The summit, which assembled political leaders, tech moguls, and “experts” who claim they totally understand how AI works, focused on two pressing issues: how AI is accelerating global inequality and whether or not it will melt the planet first. Attendees expressed their deep concern while sipping expensive champagne and discussing which industries they would let AI destroy first.

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley executives nodded in faux sympathy, assuring the public that AI would create millions of new jobs, mostly in explaining to people why robots had replaced them. “Automation is progress,” said one CEO while cashing another billion-dollar subsidy check.

Macron’s deepfake stunt only heightened fears about misinformation and identity theft, but his team assured the public—if anything, this was the best he’s ever looked. “We’re not saying deepfakes should be weaponized to manipulate elections,” said one advisor. “But if they make Macron’s poll numbers go up, who are we to argue with progress?”

In a final show of AI optimism, Macron promised to balance ethical AI advancements with capitalism’s insatiable need for profit. Meanwhile, behind closed doors, tech executives uploaded his face into a neural network, just in case they ever needed a more cooperative version of him in the future.