Simone Galimberti
Since the start of the Paris AI Action Summit, held on the 10th and 11th of February, the expectations were minimal.
Yet there was a trickle of hope that the gathering would succeed at maintaining a modicum focus on safety and security of artificial intelligence. Instead, the speeches resembled more business pitches.
There was a deliberate intent at attracting billions of investments to spur the unlimited potential of a new technology that has already become so pervasive to our lives.
Those at the Summit, concerned with the implications of an unregulated and unchecked AI could not find neither a glimpse of a symbolic traffic light nor of a guardrail, two images often invoked to slow down the crazy pace of AI development.
Instead, in the words of Kevin Rose of the New York Times, it was like “watching policymakers on horseback trying to install seatbelts on a passing Lamborghini”. Many wondered if there was a real intention, on the part of the policymakers in questions, to seriously set any standards at all.
Watching their speeches, each of them, from JD Vance, the new American Vice President, to the European Commission’s President, Ursula Von der Leyen, to President Macron of France to PM Modi of India, it seems like they were trying to outmatch each other.
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