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Macron advocates for a European model of artificial intelligence

by AI | 02.Sep 2024 | Europe in brief AI

The French president wished on Friday that Europe would create its own “public-private” model to develop artificial intelligence and catch up with Chinese and American competition.

French President Emmanuel Macron attends the Youth and Artificial Intelligence Forum at InGrid Schneider Electric LLC in Novi Sad on August 30, 2024, during a two-day official visit to Serbia. (Photo: OLIVER BUNIC / AFP)

Novi Sad (Serbia) – Emmanuel Macron advocated on Friday, on the second day of his visit to Serbia, for a European “model” of artificial intelligence around “three s”, “science, standards and solutions”, to “catch up” with China and the United States.

Belgrade is preparing to take over the presidency of the global partnership for AI and France will host the AI summit in February 2025. The French president and his Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vucic therefore participated in a forum on these issues in Novi Sad, the second largest city in Serbia.

“We, Europeans, are a bit behind”, “the Chinese and the Americans are investing much more”, regretted Emmanuel Macron. He urged Europe to “catch up, innovate, invest much more than we do today.”

But he also stated that it should “invent” its own “model” in the face of Beijing’s, “totally controlled by the government” and Washington’s, the result of “totally private innovation”.

“Europe must have a very specific, mixed, public-private innovation model,” he affirmed. (August 30, 2024)