As one of the must-attend international events in 2025, France will hold an event on February 10th and 11th that will bring together heads of state, heads of government, international organizations, companies, researchers, scholars, artists, etc. Preparations are underway to hold an action summit on the issue. Paris. Its purpose is to develop concrete actions towards the rational development of AI, ensuring economic progress, environmental impact and general interest.
“The AI revolution is poised to transform jobs, education, culture and economies around the world.” Presidential Information Website predicts upcoming Bletchley Park Summit (November 2023) and Seoul Summit (May 2024) This background to the new international summit that follows is part of a broader perspective. Representatives from each field will participate to make this summit as inclusive as possible. ”
Five main pillars of public interest
The Paris Summit to promote ‘ethical, sustainable and inclusive AI’ will focus on five ‘key pillars’ that will form the basis of preparatory work.
The first is “AI serving the general interest” or “public interest.” According to summit organizers, AI should be seen as a “political technology geared toward economic, social, and environmental progress.” The objectives of the summit are:
Encourage the “development of cheaper models” that serve the public interest.Facilitate access to “structured data that respects individual freedom” to generate progress, particularly in the areas of health and the environment.Develop broader access to computing power.Developing future human resources on a global scale.
The second pillar is the Future of Work, which is based on the principle that the integration of artificial intelligence is changing the labor market, job content, tasks, and ways of working. In this context, the Action Summit on Artificial Intelligence aims to foster “international exchange and building on existing efforts on the future of work”, with the aim, inter alia:
Deepen our “understanding of AI systems and how they are used” to better predict the impact of AI on the world of work, training, and education.Promote the adoption of AI “for productivity, skills development and well-being in the workplace.”
The third pillar is “Innovation and Culture.” Its purpose is to “enhance technical excellence in the service of innovation and artistic creation.” However, as the website points out, “AI is already enabling speeding up the creation and distribution of cultural products, but it can also call into question the economic model of creation and intellectual property rewards.” .
Building on this idea, the summit will encourage participants to:
Discuss the sharing of “values and systems that may facilitate access to resources essential to the development of AI.”He emphasized the importance of “cultural and linguistic diversity” in conjunction with the Francophonie Summit. The site adds that “a shared approach by owners of unentitled cultural data could play an important role in addressing these issues.”
The need for international cooperation
The fourth pillar is “Trusted Artificial Intelligence.” Noting that the rapid development of AI is “a source of profound change that creates many positive opportunities,” the summit should also consider “the significant risks to the continuity of our socio-economic model.” Like previous summits, the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit aims to “demonstrate the international community’s commitment to fostering trust in AI in a global, open and positive manner.” To this end, actions will focus on:
The fight against “information manipulation”, especially on social networks.How AI will impact cybersecurity and vice versa.Identify and control higher risks that may arise from uncontrolled use of AI.Defining standards for measuring these risks “could be a point of international convergence”.
And finally, the final point derived from the previous four pillars: “Global Governance of AI.” The Paris summit is concerned about the “significant risk of fragmentation” in the field of artificial intelligence and aims to define “a common foundation for international AI governance.” This new “collectively defined global architecture” will take into account existing efforts to foster other actions at the international scale, including:
It continues to seek “a solid scientific consensus on the development of AI technologies, their uses, and their impact on society.”Defining a framework that enables the creation of “open solutions and interoperable technical and auditing standards.”A fusion of “AI-specific standards and public policies.”
