France which organizes a summit on AI in early February hopes to raise 2.5 billion euros over five years to finance a foundation which will be responsible for putting artificial intelligence “at the service of the general interest”.
Paris hopes to raise 2.5 billion euros over five years for a foundation supposed to put artificial intelligence “at the service of the general interest”, announced the special envoy of the President of the Republic on the subject, two weeks of a world summit in Paris.
This “Foundation devoted to artificial intelligence to promote its development at the service of the general interest, which could be located in Paris” must be born from the IA summit organized by France in early February, said Anne Bouverot in an interview with Sunday, given to Davos (Switzerland).
“It would make it possible to collect data of general interest, on health for example. The idea is to create a framework of confidence to bring together this data, which would be freely accessible to researchers and sold at a low price for start-ups. They would be paid for private players, “she added. “We hope to raise 2.5 billion euros over five years to finance this foundation, including 500 million this year,” she continued.
-“Form a coalition for a sustainable AI”
The Paris Summit, which must peak by a diplomatic summit at the Grand Palais on February 10 and 11, has two other objectives: “form a coalition for a sustainable AI”, and “that the participating countries sign a joint declaration on the need for 'An international governance “, a” text of intentions and commitments “, she said. Finally, “there will be at the top of the announcements on the installation of new data centers in France,” she slipped.
In terms of participants, she confirmed that Emmanuel Macron would co-pres with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. However, she did not specify who would represent China and the United States. On the business side, Sam Altman, the co -founder of Openai, who created Chatgpt, is notably expected.
