Macron: «Artificial intelligence combines innovation and duty» | EUROtoday

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NEW DELHI – During his eagerly awaited speech on the India AI Impact Summit, French President Emmanuel Macron sought to stipulate a future through which Sino-American hegemony within the synthetic intelligence sector should compete with a mannequin able to combining “innovation and responsibility, technology and humanity”.

In his speech, punctuated with references to the progress made by India in making a digitalisation mannequin primarily based on inclusiveness, Macron didn’t faux to disregard how synthetic intelligence has quickly change into a area of strategic competitors, and underlined the significance of a “cooperation based on mutual respect” through which France and India can play an important position, in a context of “efficient multilateralism”.

Speaking of inclusiveness, the French president underlined how it’s “fundamental to ensure everyone has access to the benefits of artificial intelligence” and in outlining Europe’s position, within the absence of continental champions to distinction with the massive Americans and Chinese, he tried to dispel the cliché of an EU “blindly obsessed” with regulatory points, presenting it as “a safe space”.

On the subject of guidelines, Macron reiterated his intention to ban entry to social networks for minors beneath 15 years of age and, referring to the speech of the United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, mentioned that when kids and adolescents are concerned, the idea of “regulation” is corresponding to that of “civilization”.