Paris: 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.
According to Kuwait News Agency, Anne Bouverot, French President Emmanuel Macron's special envoy to the AI Summit, stated that AI provides great potential to shift numerous societal domains, including knowledge, labor, information, culture, and language. She emphasized that AI could create new opportunities for useful innovations, solve complicated problems such as global warming, and improve people's daily life by making many services more accessible and efficient.
Bouverot underlined the importance of capitalizing on AI to serve the public interest and ensure social access to it in a fair way, highlighting President Macron's insistence on allowing everyone across the world to benefit from this technology. The Paris-hosted AI summit is expected to bring together heads of State and Government, international organizations, companies, and civil society from across the globe.
She elaborated that the gathering would significantly contribute to enabling the largest possible number of people to gain access to AI, closing the digital divide, and stimulating AI to serve humanity and public interests. The French presidential envoy added that the summit aims to provide easy access to resources, data, and training, promoting joint solutions to optimize AI use and minimize risks.
Discussing possible tangible progress at the summit, Bouverot expressed hope for the establishment of global AI governance involving moral and security causes, as well as matters like protecting basic freedoms, fighting market concentration, and ensuring fair access to data. She stressed the need to involve all public and private stakeholders in international dialogue to create an effective, comprehensive, and transparent governance structure.
Bouverot indicated that the summit aims to broaden the scope of involvement in global AI initiatives, encouraging participation from 119 countries in discussions and decisions. She quoted the French president's call for establishing an international framework that includes all stakeholders, governments, companies, and civil society to jointly set out a global AI environment.
In this context, she emphasized that the process should lead to developing joint criteria to ensure the ethical use of AI, respect for human rights, and allow everyone to utilize it in a globally encouraged context of trust. The AI Action Summit, co-chaired with India, builds on advances made at previous summits and will draw on the expertise of a diverse steering committee to ensure inclusive contributions.
The summit, along with the AI Action Week, will serve as a vital opportunity to showcase ecosystems fostering AI development and deployment, and to promote concrete initiatives by a wide range of actors contributing to this collective effort. Participants aim to achieve three major objectives: providing access to independent, safe, and reliable AI, developing more environmentally friendly AI, and ensuring effective and inclusive global governance of AI.