2023-11-02 22:22:04
Be careful not to put the cart before the horse. This is the message that the Minister of the Economy wanted to convey this Thursday. Bruno Le Maire called on the European Union on Wednesday to “innovate” before regulating the development of artificial intelligence (AI), following the first world summit on the risks of this technology organized in the United Kingdom.
Faced with the giants that are the United States or China, “if the European Union wants to stay in the race for artificial intelligence in the 21st century, all European countries must pool their strengths, their skills, their technologies, and invest more widely and more quickly,” he told the press.
The European Union hopes to conclude before the end of the year the world’s first regulation aimed at regulating and protecting innovation in AI, even if it will not come into force, in the best case scenario, before 2026 “Before regulating, we must innovate. Before putting up obstacles, we must give impetus,” defended Bruno Le Maire, who had already pleaded on Monday with Italian and German ministers for an EU approach “favorable to innovation”.
“We want to build an open European AI, and to do this we must rely on very promising small companies,” he said, citing the French start-up Mistral AI, which unveiled its first AI program at the end of September. Generative AI.
A next edition in Paris
Bruno Le Maire also considered that the European Union should focus on “the uses of AI”, instead of directly applying regulation on the technology underlying the most advanced models – such as ChatGPT, Bard or Midjourney . The minister stressed that the Bletchley Park meeting, which brought together state representatives and tech giants for two days, had been “useful and timely”.
France will host the next edition of this summit on the security of artificial intelligence in Paris, after a virtual edition in six months in South Korea. Until then, “we must focus on short-term risks, such as disinformation”, the impact of AI on employment, and the concentration of technology in the hands of a handful of actors private, he stressed, because “this is not compatible with the interests of citizens and States”.
The American company Nvidia, specialist in ultra-sophisticated graphics processors which underpin the operation of software like ChatGPT, produces almost all of the chips available on the market, he recalled.
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