It is an event that should allow it to replace France at the center of the game on artificial intelligence. On the first day of the World Summit on AI in Paris this Monday, February 10, Emmanuel Macron called on Europeans to a “burst” to fill their delay in artificial intelligence, suggesting to use a strategy in “Our Our -Dame “, in reference to the reconstruction in record time of the cathedral partially destroyed by a fire.
“It’s time to wake up and (to have) a European strategy,” he said in English, from a platform under the dome of the Grand Palais. “We have shown the rest of the world that with a clear calendar, we can get there,” he added in reference to Notre-Dame, also pleading for a “rationalization of procedures” and simplified piloting. This “Notre-Dame approach will be adopted for data centers, marketing authorizations, AI and attractiveness,” he also detailed before a flowerbed of journalists and entrepreneurs from the world of Tech.
“AI is above all an incredible technological and scientific revolution at the service of progress,” added the head of state, affirming that this revolution must be done “at the service of humanity, in order to live better”.
“Need more Europe”
Emmanuel Macron also indicated that the president of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will present this Tuesday, February 11, “the European strategy on AI”, which should allow the EU “to accelerate, to simplify (SA) regulations, deepen the single market and also invest in calculation capacities “. “We need more Europe and we have to provide a larger internal market to all the start-ups that start in Europe,” he argued.
This announcement comes the day after the announcement by the French president of 109 billion euros in private investments in France in AI by 2031, especially around the construction of data centers (Data Centers). These will include 50 billion euros from the United Arab Emirates, 20 billion euros from the Brookfield Canadian Fund and 10 billion euros from the British company Fluidstack. The Head of State said that these data centers would be built “partnerships with large French companies”, in order to benefit from “a lot of calculation capacities”.