2024-09-11 11:00:10
“On the dangers of AI, is France in denial? » This theme was at the heart of the press conference organized by the group Pause IA, Tuesday September 10, in Paris. The prospect of an international conference on artificial intelligence (AI) held in the French capital on February 10 and 11, 2025, sparks a gathering of activists who are most concerned about “Security AI”judge themselves to be little heard. There are French officials “too much hope”accused the president of the French branch of Pause IA, Maxime Fournes, a thirty-year-old AI engineer in finance, in London.
In a “second thought” published on Tuesday, Rest IA criticized the report of the AI Commission submitted in March to the government of“ignore the warnings of many experts about the dangers involved” of AI, which “may result in human destruction or catastrophic damage”paragraph “Creating an AI that is uncontrollable or inconsistent with human values” or “Using malware to design biological weapons or destructive cyber attacks”.
According to the group, President Emmanuel Macron and the board also rely heavily on the opinion of representatives of AI companies, such as Yann LeCun, from Meta (parent company of Facebook), Arthur Mensch, from Mistral AI, or Cédric O , former Secretary of State who became a consultant and shareholder of Mistral – the latter was accused of conflict of interest, but the High Authority for the transparency of public life confirmed, in June, “that nothing allows us to finish” that the reservations expressed about his transfer to the private sector were ignored.
Put AI on “pause”
The international organization created in 2023 by a Dutch engineer, Pause IA set, in May, small demonstrations (less than ten participants in Paris) to ask for the suspension of the international agreement The most advanced AI research. It is in line with the spirit of the special petitions launched in 2023 to put AI into practice. “stand” or to do “endangered” a joy, “like an epidemic or a nuclear war”. There are several topics at the London AI Security Conference in November 2023.
Future of Life Institute (FLI), the American thought tank behind the petition for “stand”has appointed a representative in Paris and is relatively a series of “AI Security Breakfasts”. “Paris conference seeks to shift focus away from security” etc “We see AI as a vehicle for economic patriotism”, Unfortunately, in July, the guest Stuart Russell, an American researcher is the leader of “Existing Dangers” from IA. “There is a decline in the theme of AI security everywhere, but France takes the prize”calculates Connor Leahy, from the beginning of ConjectureAI, very alarmist and now in London.
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