At a summit in Paris, the EU pledges to start putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to artificial intelligence
French president Emmanuel Macron struck an upbeat tone. The European Union was “back in the race” to become a big player in technology, he declared. Macron was speaking in the Grand Palais, where he had gathered world leaders and tech executives for a two-day summit on AI.was publicly launched in late 2022, governments and companies have been trying to position themselves on the right side of the rapidly advancing technology.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, came with a plan to set up AI research facilities, which officials likened to the Cern lab in Geneva that hosts the Large Hadron Collider. Politicians and executives hope the significant step change in funding will help Europe make up ground it has lost to China and the US in the AI race.
“We need international regulatory regimes that foster the creation of AI technology rather than strangle it,” Vance said. Commenting on the EU approach to regulation, he said the race to dominate AI was not going to be won by “hand-wringing” over safety concerns, even as he insisted that “the Trump administration will ensure that the most powerful AI systems are built in the US, with American-designed and -manufactured chips”.
“It has huge potential, but it needs to be pinned down. It needs to be regulated and have oversight ... You can’t have things run riot, making decisions about people,” says the former Ireland South MEP. I taught the machine how to operate like a human being, basically so that it could replace me in a few yearsBrando Benifei, an Italian MEP from the centre-left Democratic Party, was one of the lead negotiators of the AI Act. “We need rules and this is what we have done with the regulations in Europe,” he says.
One former Facebook content moderator, Sonia Kgomo, spent two years training the social media platform’s automated system, to improve its accuracy in removing content that breached its community standards.
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