Major world leaders are meeting for an AI summit in Paris on Monday as tech titans fight for dominance in the fast-moving technology industry.
Heads of state, top government officials, CEOs and scientists from around 100 countries are participating in the two-day international summit from Monday.
High-profile attendees include US Vice President JD Vance, on his first overseas trip since taking office, and Chinese Vice Premier Zhang Guoqing.
The summit, which gathers major players such as Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, aims at fostering AI advances in sectors like health, education, environment and culture.
Paris AI Summit: India fosters AI startups and initiatives
A global public-private partnership named “Current AI” will be launched to support large-scale initiatives that serve the general interest.
The Paris summit “is the first time we’ll have had such a broad international discussion in one place on the future of AI”, said Linda Griffin, vice-president of public policy at Mozilla. “I see it as a norm-setting moment.”
Nick Reiners, senior geotechnology analyst at Eurasia Group, noted an opportunity to shape AI governance in a new direction by “moving away from this concentration of power amongst a handful of private actors and building this public interest AI instead”.
French organisers are also looking for the summit to ignite major investment announcements in Europe, positioning the region as a viable contender in an industry increasingly shaped by a growing US-China rivalry.
France plans to announce AI private investments worth a total of 109 billion euros over the coming years, French President Emmanuel Macron said, presenting it as “the equivalent” of Trump’s Stargate AI data centres project.
(FRANCE 24 with AP)
Leave a Comment