The Summit on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that begins this Monday in Paris will try to agree on a global governance system on the sector to try to ensure that technology serves society.
The two -day summit will gather about one hundred countries and a thousand attendees Among rulers, responsible for international, scientific and academic organizations, executives of large technology (Google, Open IA or Meta) and NGOs.
Co -chaired by Emmanuel Macron And the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modithe appointment plans to announce the reinforcement of the international mechanism to ensure that the AI standards are uniforms, Elysium sources indicated.
They added that the creation of a Fund for Global Technologies Development of artificial intelligence and ensure that countries can access the AI ”with strategic independence”.
The goal is to give a “Very political” message about artificial intelligence must come to the service of society and not vice versa, “according to the French presidency.
The AI “It can also be an instrument of creation at the service of humanity”, Macron stressed in an interview last Friday.
The appointment comes at a time when The United States and China have positioned themselves as the main actors From the sector through large technological tools, so in Paris it will also be sought that Europe and other countries participate in the global discussion, the sources of Elysium pointed out.
Macron urged Europeans to “Fight for its complete autonomy” to be a weight actor in this sector and not remain as mere spectators from China and the US. “Today, everything is possible if we have a strategy and we get spilled”he insisted.
The appointment will turn Paris for two days into the global diplomatic capitalwith the presence, in addition to Modi, of the US Vice President, JD Vance, the Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, or the Vice Prime Chinese Minister, Zhang Guoqing.
France is positioned in Europe
Macron also bets on the summit to consolidate France as entrance door and main base of AI in Europe for American, Asian or European giants, thanks to a government receptive to the sector and favorable to their investments.
France also has a important nuclear sector which offers abundant decarbonized energy for the enormous needs of the artificial interligence data centers. In the days prior to the start of the summit there have already been large ads related to France.
The Canadian fund Brookfield announced the investment of 20,000 million euros in France To build data centers, the first one in Cambrai (North).
Besides, France and United Arab Emirates announced on Wednesday a strategic association To build in this country a giant data center, as well as other joint projects in the sector.
The French company Mistral Iaone of the most advanced in the sector in Europe, has just launched its app (le cat) and the technology Gala Iliad has announced the investment of 3,100 million euros in AI infrastructure in Europe.
Meanwhile, numerous NGOs have joined to warn that Effective regulation is needed Internationally in order to prevent large technological ones, with the support of the new United States government, use AI without control and for their own benefit.
Amnesty International, for example, warns that the AI presents “Fundamental threats to our fundamental rights” Through four major risks: generalized and indiscriminate surveillance, the automation of public services, the propagation of toxic, hate or false content and the automation of the Armed Forces.
The summit will close a week from AI -related eventswith two days for meetings and debates of scientists and researchers and two others demonstrations of the use of this technology in culture.
By Spanish The Minister of Digital Transformation, Óscar López, and the Ambassador to the UN, Héctor Gómez, who coordinates with Costa Rica the work in the United Nations on governance of artificial intelligence.
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