Paris (AP) – The main world leaders meet for a AI summit in ParisWhere difficult diplomatic discussions are expected while technological titans are fighting for domination in the rapidly moving technological industry.
Heads of state, senior government officials, CEOs and scientists from a hundred countries participate in the two -day international summit from Monday.
High-level participants include US vice-president JD Vance, on his First trip abroad Since his entry into office and the Chinese Deputy Prime Minister Zhang Guoqing.
“We are experiencing a technology and a scientific revolution that we have rarely seen,” said French president Emmanuel Macron on Sunday on National Television France 2.
France and Europe must seize “the opportunity” because the AI ”will allow us to live better, learn better, work better, to worry better and it is up to us to put this artificial intelligence at the service of human beings” , he said.
The beginnings of vance abroad
The summit will give certain European leaders a chance to meet Vance for the first time. The 40-year-old vice-president was only 18 months old as an Ohio junior senator when Donald Trump chose him as a running mate.
Vance was joined by his wife Usha and their three children – Ewan, Vivek and Mirabel – for the trip to Europe. They were welcomed on French soil Monday morning by Manuel Valls, the Minister of France abroad, and the office of American embassy, David McCawley.
Tuesday, Vance will organize a working lunch with Macron, with discussions on Ukraine and the Middle East on the menu. The vice-president should also hold bilateral meetings on the same day with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen.
Vance, like President Donald Trump, questioned American spending in Ukraine and the approach to the isolation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Asset promised to end the fighting Within six months of taking office.
Vance will later attend this week at the Munich Security Conference, where He can meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Leaders in Europe have looked carefully Trump’s recent declarations on threats to impose prices on the EU take control of Greenland and its suggestion that Palestinians eliminate Gaza Once the fights in the Israel -Hamas conflict end – an idea that has been categorically rejected by Arab allies.
Prepare the progress of AI
The summit, which brings together major players such as Google, Microsoft and Openai, aims to promote the progress of AI in sectors such as health, education, the environment and culture.
A global public-private partnership named “current AI” must be launched to support large-scale initiatives that serve the general interest.
The Paris Summit “is the first time that we will have such an international discussion in one place on the future of AI,” said Linda Griffin, vice-president of public policy in Mozilla. “I see it as a moment of standard.”
Nick Reiners, main geotechnology analyst at Eurasia Group, noted the opportunity to shape AI governance in a new direction by “moving away from this concentration of power among a handful of private actors and building this public interest is instead ”.
However, it is not clear if the United States will support such initiatives.
“There are many complicated questions to solve” around problems such as the ability to control AI systems, said the Nobel Prize winner Demis Hassabis, founder of the Google Deepmind Research Laboratory. “But I also think that geopolitical questions may be even more complicated about things like regulations.”
The French organizers also hope that the summit will lead to major investment announcements in Europe.
France must announce the private investments of the AI of total value of 109 billion euros (113 billion dollars) in the coming years, said Macron, presenting it as the “equivalent” of Trump Stargate AI Data Centers project.
Indian PM co-organization of the summit
Modi Co-Héberge The Summit with Macron in order to involve more global players in the development of AI and prevents the sector from becoming an American-Chinese battle.
The Indian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vikram Misri, underlined the need for equitable access to AI to avoid “perpetuating a digital divide which already exists around the world”.
Macron will also move Wednesday with Modi at the port of Marseille in the southern city to inaugurate a new Indian consulate and visit the ITER nuclear research site.
France has become a key defense partner for India, with current conferences on the purchase of 26 burst fighter planes and three scorpene submarines. New Delhi officials said the discussions were in the final phase and that the agreement could be signed in a few weeks.
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The editors of the Associated Press Kelvin Chan in Paris and Aijaz Hussain in New Delhi contributed to this report.
