Visiting Serbia on Friday 30 and Saturday 31 August, French President Emmanuel Macron called for a European AI model organised around “three Ss” - “science, standards and solutions” - to “catch up” with China and the United States.
In his view, Europe needs to find a third way of innovating between the Beijing model, “totally controlled by the government” and the Washington model of “totally private innovation”. “Europe, which is the place where we invented the Renaissance” by placing “man in the generic sense of the term at the centre of everything”, must “have a very specific, mixed, public-private model of innovation”, he said.
After the wave of regulation driven by the EU, priority must be given to investment, to “keep pace with the same standards as China and the United States”.
Belgrade is set to take over the presidency of the Global Partnership for AI and France will host the AI Summit in February 2025. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)