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Africa-Press – Mauritius. <\/strong><\/span>The geopolitics of artificial intelligence will be in focus at a major summit in Paris where world leaders, executives and experts will try to hammer out agreements on guiding the development of the rapidly advancing technology on Feb. 10-11.<\/b><\/p>\n

It’s the latest in a series of global discussions for AI governance that comes at a fresh inflexion point as a new Chinese artificial intelligence model shakes up the industry.<\/p>\n

French President Emmanuel Macron and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are co-hosting the gathering, which aims to tackle the question of how to harness artificial intelligence’s potential so that it benefits everyone while containing the technology’s myriad risks.<\/p>\n

U.S. Vice President JD Vance will be attending, as will China\u2019s Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.<\/p>\n

“We know he will be there at the plenary to make a speech. So, you know, thinking about his previous interventions in places like the Munich Security Conference, it’s conceivable that he would make quite a belligerent kind of speech,” explained Nick Reiners, Senior Geotechnology Analyst the Eurasia Group.<\/p>\n

“That could undermine the idea of agreeing on a joint communique or anything particularly substantial,” he added.<\/p>\n

Silicon Valley bigwigs like OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Microsoft President Brad Smith and Google CEO Sundar Pichai will also be there.<\/p>\n

AI risks are still on the agenda, with an expert group reporting back on general purpose AI’s possible extreme dangers.<\/p>\n

But this time organizers are expanding the discussion to more countries, and widening the debate to a range of other AI-related topics.<\/p>\n

Like previous editions, the summit won’t produce any binding regulation.<\/p>\n

Macron’s team wants to shift the focus away from the race to develop better-than-human artificial general intelligence by amassing computing power, and instead open up access to data that can help solve problems like cancer or long COVID.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear whether Trump\u2019s officials will sign off anything at the summit.<\/p>\n

Trump has spoken of his desire to make the U.S. the \u201cworld capital of artificial intelligence\u201d by tapping its U.S. oil and gas reserves for the energy-hungry technology.<\/p>\n

The release last month of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek\u2019s chatbot stunned because of its ability to rival Western players like ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Yet the rise of DeepSeek, which built its open-source AI model at a fraction of the the cost and chips, also puts China’s interests in line with France’s.<\/p>\n

Macron is hoping to offset dominance of U.S. AI players and make room for others, including French startup Mistral, which uses an open-source AI model.<\/p>\n

“It’s quite interesting, France, in its typical way, trying to position itself a little bit in between the U.S. and China and not aligning a wholesale with the U.S. to try to, you know, gain some leverage that way and and demonstrate strategic autonomy, as Macron likes to talk about,” said Reiners.<\/p>\n

Brussels has long been a thorn in the side of Big Tech companies, cracking down with antitrust penalties against the likes of Google, Apple and Meta.<\/p>\n

Trump lashed at the EU\u2019s multibillion-dollar fines at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month, calling them a \u201cform of taxation\u201d on American companies.<\/p>\n

More recently EU\u2019s artificial intelligence regulation has met resistance from the companies.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mauritius<\/span> Follow Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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