Paris will receive the summit on artificial intelligence, Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 February. Emmanuel Macron will be surrounded by heads of state around the world for this occasion.
Tech eyes will turn to Paris in the coming days. The summit on artificial intelligence (AI) will take place on Monday, February 10 and Tuesday, February 11, but the events devoted to this theme have already started. “Everything will be possible in Paris for a week,” it is enthusiastically displayed on the side of the Élysée, as reported RFI. But why give so much importance to an AI summit?
For Emmanuel Macron, this is an opportunity to fulfill at least two objectives: regain influence in the French political game, and thus try to ensure a place of choice for France, and therefore to Europe, on The international scene against the United States and China.
Reverse the situation in France
Since the bitter failure of Macronie in the European elections, then in the legislative elections, France is going through an unprecedented political crisis and Emmanuel Macron is held away. The President of the Republic leaves the government in charge, when it was not really his habit until the National Assembly was. This AI summit could allow him to regain a place of choice in the political game, by becoming the one who makes France prosper in this new field that is artificial intelligence, where everything remains to be done.
Win points at Europe
To achieve this European objective, Emmanuel Macron decided to surround himself with researchers, entrepreneurs, finance, and also governments. In particular, there will be Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who co-chases the summit and JD Vance, the American vice-president. By bringing together Asia and America around it, which represents Europe, Emmanuel Macron wants to show that the old continent always has its place with the technological powers. Today, it is the United States and China that are largely leading the AI game. Although many technologies are not yet known and used by the general public, this domination of these two powers is illustrated by the fight between conversational, or chatbot. The United States has chat-gpt, China has Deepseek, and Europe in Lucie, this French AI which had to be quickly disconnected after providing failed calculations and false information to its users.