Trump, DeepSeek in Focus as Nations Gather at Paris AI Summit
AI Action Summit to concentrate on open-source tech and clean energy
Global agreement on AI concepts looked for, not new regulation
Top CEOs including from Google, OpenAI to go to
By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau
PARIS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - All eyes are on the French capital next week to see if U.S. President Donald Trump ´ s administration can discover typical ground with China and almost 100 other countries on the safe advancement of expert system.
About a year after world powers considered the dangers of AI in England ´ s Bletchley Park, a larger variety of countries are gathering in Paris to go over putting the innovation to work.
France, excited to promote its nationwide industry, is hosting the AI Action Summit together with India on Feb. 10 and 11, with a concentrate on locations where Europe ´ s second-largest economy has a benefit: easily available or "open-source" systems, and clean energy to power information centers.
Mitigating labor disturbance and promoting sovereignty in a global AI market are likewise on the agenda.
Top executives from Alphabet, Microsoft and dozens of other organizations are slated to attend. Government leaders are anticipated to dine on Monday with choose CEOs. And talks will consist of one on Tuesday by Sam Altman, president of OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, two people associated with the summit told Reuters.
It was less clear whether the U.S. will reach consensus with other nations on AI.
Since taking workplace on Jan. 20, President Trump has withdrawed former President Joe Biden ´ s 2023 executive order on the technology, set in motion a repeat withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and faced Congressional contacts us to consider new export controls on AI chips to counter competing China.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance will attend for the American delegation.
A non-binding communiqué of principles for the stewardship of AI, bearing U.S., Chinese and other signatures, has been under negotiation and would mark a huge achievement if reached, said the individuals associated with the top, who spoke on condition of privacy.
They decreased to detail the communiqué or elaborate if there were any points of argument amongst the prospective signatories.
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An official for the French presidency said the summit will offer voice to nations around the world, not only the U.S. and China.
"We are revealing that AI is here, that business must embrace it, that it is a vector of competitiveness for France and for Europe," the Élysée authorities said.
NO NEW AI REGULATION
Safety dedications controlled the discussion in previous worldwide AI summits in Bletchley Park and Seoul. In Paris, producing new regulation is not on the agenda.
Reeling from red tape and a reputation for threat hostility, Europe and especially France aspire to discuss structures for AI policy but not guidelines that might decrease their national champions, which have lagged American companies. like France are assessing how to execute the EU AI Act in as flexible a method as possible so it does not prevent innovation, individuals involved in the summit said.
Instead in focus is how to disperse AI ´ s benefits to developing countries, by means of less expensive designs made by the similarity France ´ s startup Mistral and China ´ s DeepSeek. The Hangzhou-based business rocked international markets last month by showing it might vie with U.S. heavyweights on human-like thinking innovation, while charging much less.
France has actually taken on the advancement as evidence that the global race to more effective AI remains large open.
One of the summit ´ s likely results is that philanthropies and companies are expected to devote a preliminary $500 million in capital, increasing to $2.5 billion over 5 years, to money public-interest projects on AI around the world, individuals said.
Another is resolving the energy crunch that industry thinks is inescapable from their power-hungry AI designs. A significant producer of tidy energy in the kind of nuclear power, France wants to reconcile the world ´ s climate and AI aspirations.
France's decarbonized energy and "nuclear fleet, in the context of data center installations, is a property," the Élysée official said. "We will probably have statements in this regard at the top." (Reporting By Jeffrey Dastin and Elizabeth Pineau; Additional reporting by Nandita Bose and Anna Tong; Editing by David Gregorio)