By AFP - Agence France Presse
India to co-chair Paris AI Summit in February: France
A summit on artificial intelligence (AI) organized by France and scheduled for early February in Paris “will be co-chaired by India”, minister Clara Chappaz said on Wednesday after a cabinet meeting.
Called the “Action Summit on Artificial Intelligence”, the meeting “will bring together leaders from around the world, from governments, civil society (and) the research and business worlds”, Chappaz added.
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, his colleague at rival Anthropic, Dario Amodei, and MistralAI boss Arthur Mensch will be among the industry heavyweights taking part in the February 10-11 summit, Chappaz said.
Demis Hassabis, a Nobel Prize winner in chemistry who runs Google's DeepMind AI subsidiary, and Nobel Prize winner in economics Daron Acemoglu are also expected, as are business leaders from German AI startup Aleph Alpha, Accenture, Mozilla and Signal, he added.
Almost 1,000 heads of state and government, chiefs, think tanks, campaign groups, research institutes, and artists have been invited to the Paris summit.
The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, has confirmed his participation, while the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, said in November that he had invited Donald Trump, who had just taken office as President of the USA, and the Republican's confidant and owner of the social network X, Elon Musk.
Macron hopes the event will put France and Europe on the global map of artificial intelligence and expose the issues raised by the technology to the public.
The three main axes of discussion will be making energy-intensive AI systems environmentally sustainable, making them operate in the public interest, and establishing a more inclusive global governance of the technology.
Scientific events will bring together researchers and economists in the run-up to the summit, which will also be accompanied by an arts and business program.
The summit itself will be held in the sumptuous Grand Palais building on the banks of the River Seine, built for the Universal Exposition of 1900.
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