French Leader's Envoy Underlines Collective AI Solutions

(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Interview by Mohammad Al-Otaibi
PARIS, Feb 9 (KUNA) -- The Summit for Action on Artificial Intelligence (AI) due in Paris on February 10 and 11 mainly aims to promote collective solutions to make the best use of AI and cut risks, primarily ones pertinent to power concentration and unequal access, said the French presidential envoy to the summit.
In an exclusive interview to KUNA, Anne Bouverot, French President Emmanuel Macron's special envoy to the AI Summit, said AI provides great potential to shift numerous societal domains, including knowledge, labor, information, culture and language.
She added that it could also create new opportunities for useful innovations, solve complicated problems such as global warming, improve people's daily life by means of making many services more accessible and efficient.
Bouverot underlined that it is essential to capitalize on AI to serve the public interest and ensure social access to it in a fair way, pointing out President Macron's insistence on allowing everyone across the world to make use of this technology.
On the Paris-hosted AI summit, she said that it would bring together heads of State and Government, international organizations and companies as well as civil society from across the globe.
She elaborated that the gathering would contribute to greatly enabling the largest possible number of people to gain access to AI, closing the digital divide, and stimulating and spurring AI to serve humanity and public interests.
The French presidential envoy added that it is also intended to give easy access to resources, data and training, given that this collective framework aims at promoting joint solutions to make the best use of AI and cut relevant risks down to size.
Asked about possible tangible progress in the summit, she voiced hope that it would culminate in establishing global AI governance involving not only moral and security causes but also matters like protecting basic freedoms, fighting market concentration and allowing fair access to data.
Bouverot went on to say that the prime step is to involve all public and private stakeholders in international dialogue with the ultimate goal of creating an effective, comprehensive and transparent governance structure.
She stressed that the summit, which comes at a time when only a few countries join major global AI initiatives, is meant to broaden the scope of involvement in such endeavors so that the targeted 119 countries could partake in relevant discussions and decisions.
She quoted the French president as calling for necessarily establishing an international comprehensive and transparent framework that could bring all effective stakeholders, governments and companies and civil society to jointly set out a global AI environment.
In this context, she underlined that this process should lead to developing joint criteria to ensure the use of AI in a moral manner and the respect of human rights and allow everyone to utilize it in a globally encouraged context of trust.
On 10 and 11 February 2025, Paris will become the artificial intelligence (AI) capital of the world on the occasion of the AI Action Summit. This event will bring together heads of State and Government, international organizations and companies of all sizes, representatives from academia, researchers, non-governmental organizations, artists and other members of civil society from across the globe.
The AI Action Summit to be held at the Grand Palais in Paris mainly aims to collectively establish scientific foundations, solutions and standards for more sustainable AI working for collective progress and in the public interest.
Co-chaired with India, the event builds on the advances made at the Bletchley Park Summit in November 2023 and the Seoul Summit in May 2024 and will draw on the expertise of a steering committee bringing together some 30 countries and international institutions to ensure inclusive and diverse contributions.
The Summit, together with the AI Action Week, will be an important opportunity to showcase ecosystems fostering the development and deployment of AI and to promote concrete initiatives by a wide range of actors who contribute to this collective effort.
The participants will seek to achieve three major objectives: providing access to independent, safe and reliable AI to a wide range of users, developing AI that is more environmentally friendly, and ensuring global governance of artificial intelligence that is both effective and inclusive. (end)\
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