Artificial Intelligence Action Summit in Paris

The AI Action Summit opened today in Paris. The two-day summit – February 10 and 11 – was designed to stimulate “European awakening” on an issue in which the Old World was the first to impose rules, but in which it is technologically light years behind the USA and China (here’s a detailed analysis by Andrea Beltratti).

The two-day event, preceded by a scientific conference at the Polytechnic, will be attended by heads of state, industry experts, and technology companies. The Paris event follows the summits held in 2023 in the UK at Bletchley Park, and in 2024 in South Korea in Seoul.

Goals include creating a global platform for developing artificial intelligence, defining standards, and encouraging investment to ensure AI sustainability; there are five working groups: Public Interest AI, Future of Work, Innovation & Culture, AI of Trust, and Global AI Governance.

“We have the talent and resources to succeed in the field of artificial intelligence,” French President Emmanuel Macron wrote in X. “The good news is that French and foreign companies have announced that they want to invest 109 billion euros in artificial intelligence in France. It’s a historic amount.”

Macron confirmed that Paris believes in artificial intelligence: “With artificial intelligence, we can do great things: change health, energy, life in our society,” he explained on the eve of the summit, adding: “France and Europe must be at the center of this revolution to seize every opportunity and promote the principles that belong to us and in which we believe. That’s the goal of the Paris summit.”