Paris AI Action Summit – An opportunity to create a tool that serves everyone

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TO Dolphin Borione
Ambassador of France to Mexico

IArtificial Intelligence (AI) This is more than an industrial and technological revolution. It has the potential to cause a profound paradigm shift in our societies and in our relationships with knowledge, work, information, culture and even language.

In this sense, AI is not a neutral technology, but political and civic problem which requires close international dialogue between world leaders, researchers, companies and civil society.

For this reason, France has taken upon itself the responsibility to take advantage of the momentum created by the United Kingdom and South Korea to organize AI Action Summit days February 10 and 11, 2025 in Paris.which will bring together about a hundred heads of state and government and a thousand representatives of civil society from one hundred countries.

The question that arises in all of us – users around the world, startups and large companies, researchers and decision makers – in essence, it is quite simple: how to achieve a successful transition to AI?

The Bigger Challenge: Letting AI Deliver on Its Original Promise progress and emancipation within the framework of general trust, which allows us to contain the risks inherent in the development of technology.

In the lead-up to the Summit and beyond, our actions are focused primarily on three specific goals: First, it is important to ensure that as many people around the world as possible have access to AI so that they can benefit from it and develop new ideas. to reach your full potential. With a purpose close the growing digital divide and curb the over-concentration of the AI ​​marketWe will launch a large-scale AI initiative of common interest to drive the development and sharing of computing power, structured datasets, open tools and training for the talent of tomorrow. This project will have the support of government and private agents.

Secondly, we must be sure to think together about the two great changes of our time: the environment and technology. While AI should do its best to combat global warming and preserve ecosystems, it is currently on an unsustainable trajectory from an energy perspective. Latest forecasts show that the artificial intelligence sector will require ten times more energy in 2026 than in 2023. This prospect is not sustainable. In response to the summit will be launched international and multi-industry coalition in support of sustainable AIwith the goal of deepening research into the environmental costs of AI, evaluating models in this light, defining new standards, and increasing green investments at all levels of the value chain.

Finally, we must collectively build an effective and inclusive AI governance system that goes beyond ethics and safety. Other issues are of paramount importance. We need to discuss all these issues, such as protecting fundamental freedoms and intellectual property, combating market concentration and access to data, to name a few. We also need to bring everyone to the table to discuss issues such as global AI governance. Currently, only seven countries in the world are participating in major international artificial intelligence initiatives. and 119 are completely missing. Likewise, private actors and civil society should also be involved in co-defining a common international architecture for AI governance.

France is not moving towards this summit alone.

More than 700 public and private partners, researchers and NGOs from five continents contributed to its preparation over several months. No topic will be left out: from the future of work to cost-effective artificial intelligence, from model safety to innovation ecosystems, from essential linguistic (and therefore cultural) diversity to the protection of personal data. We count on your support: you are all invited to join us on the path to the AI ​​Action Summit, so that together we can build, in a framework of trust, AI that serves everyone for a prosperous world. more open and inclusive.