The Paris AI Action Summit was conducted in the atmosphere of forced Christmas. Workshops and debates (some you can watch) include climate, energy, work, collective effort, global competition, energy and the historical necessity. AI can support humanity, give access to knowledge, aid to find answers to complex problems, but of course there is simply a hazard of abuse and directing control against people – concerns raised by subsequent speakers were alternatively subdued, and all full-blown conviction was rapidly countered with optimistic.
Because the decision has already been made. Europe simply has no choice but to stand up for a technological race that starts to match this cold war, due to the fact that it runs in an atmosphere of tension, confrontation, threats, arrogance and ruthlessness especially of American corporations.
At the beginning of Donald Trump's tenure, the US announced a Stargate task for which they intend to allocate $500 billion, and a political alliance of technoligarchs with Trump became a fact. In fresh weeks China has shown a Chinese startup task DeepSeekwhich was expected to be much cheaper, but which does not have much to do with the truth, but caused confusion. And DeepSeek isn't all the Chinese have. I urge podcast Techstores, from which you will learn that different AI models have already been created in China about 200.
Europe can have its own AI or be condemned to others. The choice is obvious. If we want an AI, which will be democratically shaped, will follow the principles of ethics, will work for our good ("common good", "greater good", "public good" – different versions of this slogan can be heard in Paris), it must be our European 1 – read: French. Hosts played national pride loudly, which surely weakened the enthusiasm of another European countries. However, no fresh ideology – neither MEGA nor DOGE – follows French proposals only democracy and European values.
Commenting on the differences between the US and Europe, the slogan “US is innovation, EU is regulation” is frequently used. EU restraint, caution and deficiency of determination have frequently been the subject of pranks, as well as by fax to Germany Or separate taps on hot and cold water in Britain.
However, we do not gotta choose between full deregulation and full control. We can have honest regulations that do not block development,” argued another politicians: Petr Pavel, Justin Trudeau and Emmanuel Macron. Building your own European AI. A small late for America and China, but we inactive have a chance. Our assets, said Macron, are energy that France has surplus, and a immense innovation potential. The European artificial intelligence task is to include Canada and India (Narendra Modi is co-host of AI Action Summit), which draws up a fresh geopolitical arrangement.
Funding is to be bold and comes from various sources. As a pattern, Macro gave the restoration Burnt Notre Dame Cathedral, accompanied by enthusiasm and universal generosity, and the consequence exceeded expectations. The same enthusiasm Macron wants to trigger and now. He announced that France would invest in the European AI EUR 109 billion, and the United arabian Emirates (EUR 50 billion), Canada (20 billion) and India are to contribute, and the market, as said by Macron, corresponds to the US.
Can AI do democracy?
How to marry European democratic values with the improvement of technology, how to usage and how to train AI was dedicated to a separate evening event attended by over a 1000 people from 30 countries. Examples of the usage of technology against society were presented by Swiatlan Cichanouska: a deepfake prepared by Lukashenko officers, utilizing her character in which she was to declare that she was tired and gave up. Artificial intelligence can service to persecute opposition and ruthless control of citizens and citizens, it has observed.
The affirmative example was given by programmer Audrey Tang, a erstwhile Minister of Digitalization of Taiwan. She explained how the government, which had been severely weakened, decided to usage the AI to realize what citizens needed. A very numerous, but randomly selected group of people were asked questions about circumstantial cases, specified as what time classes should start at school. However, these were not referendal questions with the expected answer YES – NO, but open, probing moods, opinions, feelings, emotions, experiences.
Taiwanese experimentation is something we know from Greek agora to modern civic panels – only that thanks to artificial intelligence it can be done on a larger scale. Not a few, but respective 100 1000 minds, experiences, contexts, positions and interests can be active in the work on a given issue. The classic, civilizational accomplishment the practitioners of democracy dreamed of wanting to strengthen it.
When the Taiwanese government began to usage this method, support for it jumped from 10 to 70 percent. all 2 heads are not one, but the wisdom of the crowd – the median drawn from the set of answers, does not yield to expert knowledge. Furthermore, the engagement of citizens has emotional value, builds work and solidarity, helps to realize the opinions of others and to appreciate differences and, above all, trust in the government. The government, whose credibility the public has thus verified, can dare to face tougher reforms.
In Europe it is simply a communicative so beautiful that it is almost unbelievable – especially erstwhile we mention it to the Polish, highly polarized political scene. A government that wants to solve real problems? A government that listens to citizens? The question of deregulation would be solved by the Taiwanese government, inviting not only entrepreneurs to talk under the leadership of Rafał Brzoski, but besides employees, consumers, trade unions – all.
After all, the AI can be utilized to examine the views of EU citizens on the direction of improvement of the AI itself. This would let people's fears to be answered, alternatively than belittle them and push questionable solutions at the level of declarations. Of course, there were assurances in Paris that the European (French) AI would respect the free will of citizens, but besides the free will of companies. (The event was organised primarily for investors; Oliver Röpke was the sole typical of the trade union, who besides represented NGOs and civilian society.)
This reminds him of the key function of political will, which determines how the tool will be used. And political will is needed to trust society, which has been mentioned many times during the conference.
However, the experience of software that makes decisions for people does not yet inspire confidence. Just remind me. error of the accounting program, which led hundreds of post office workers in the UK to the failure of wealth, wellness and families, and sometimes even suicides. Or rather a fresh and drastic example from the Gaza Strip, where the AI utilized by Israel called Lavender was to model Hamas leaders, and allowed killing hundreds of completely random people.
Trust besides does not make the tools of control and mobilisation utilized by platforms employing couriers or supervising the work of drivers – they do not care about the conditions on the road, traffic jams, opposition to time and space to which people request quite a few effort. Amazon besides showed an example of utilizing AI for close control of employees.
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What, too trust, is needed for Europe to defend its thought of an AI? A strong academy. Among the panelists, Marian Mazzucato argued that thanks to public investment in the academy the state becomes not only a hated regulator, but besides stimulates improvement and innovation. At the same time, it gives itself the chance to set conditions and warrant that the effect will be compatible with the public interest.
It can be seen that the challenges of artificial intelligence – like climate, pandemic or threat of war – require that the state be allowed to take marketplace decisions. In America, the Oligarchs took over the state, Europe can propose a completely different model.
Such a historical necessity will besides be highlighted by panelists in the debate on the academy. Representatives of French and German universities agreed that the condition for developing and attracting talent is to invest the state in science. The salaries offered by large tech companies are already 5 times higher than those which young doctoral students can tempt the university. large techs, as is best seen from the American example, suck out public resources and human resources and strive to monopolize. The consequence is innovation, due to the fact that everyone submits to a valid, purely business interpretation. This would not have been the case, as the debaters pointed out, if the state had incorporated mechanisms for fair competition.
It seems to be possible in the European Union and, paradoxically, due to the fact that it is divided into national states. This is happening slow with the rest: French company Mistral AI has late shown her hut, which she called witty Le Chat (such a game of associations, foreigners laughter that in France all word starts with a ‘le’, so there is Le Chat, a cat whose ore digital face with ears is simply a chatbot logo). And Polish startup Spichlerz (Speak Leah) is working on White-haired, which is already trained by the ministry, and the budget for this is reported to have no bottom or ceiling. European countries can make a variety of local AI models by making software available to themselves.
Peter Wang, legend of AI, co-writer of Anaconda – a data platform and AI based on free software presented this way on the panel of liable AI. He sat modestly among the audience, raised his hand long to speak. He stood up, introduced himself, and urged himself not to be afraid, but to make local models intended for communities, industries, communities. So did the Nobel laureate Daron Acemiglu“We will win if, in 2 years, 80% of AI researchers go to their bosses and say: my goal is to work on technology that helps workers, on technology that helps citizens control data and information about themselves.”
Against this direction will be capital, business interests or power," said Acemoglu, but it is possible. It is worth comparing his message with the conditions of surrender given in points by J.D. Vance: The EU is to make a friendly and open space for the same model that has monopolised America.
In Poland the ground is clearly susceptible and We open up to the American monopoly already for a million dollars a year – for 5 years. Despite the Polish Presidency, Poland's participation in this European event was insignificant.
How to Enthusiast
How can we inspire the enthusiasm essential to give the thought of European AI power, erstwhile Western society is tired, has no motivation to engage, and fears are so much? erstwhile we lose our jobs to AI and the rulers scare us “a large replacement“ by migrants? "Clar has revolutionized client service by implementing an advanced AI assistant that replaces 700 employees", says Julia of Infuture.institute in the newsletter.
Report World economical Forum shows that the changes will cover most of the marketplace as early as 2030, that robotics and automation will accelerate, that areas of data processing, production, retention and distribution of energy will develop, and all these trends will deepen inequalities.
On this, there are no more AI threats. The likely script is not only that AI will take our job, but that it will shortly start competing with people for energy and water. In 2015, only 10 years ago, the same Paris had a historical agreement to mobilise governments to counter the climate disaster. The agreement was welcomed with large enthusiasm. present we can see that they have won the interests of meat producers and oil companies, and youths from the Last Generation who protest this madness are imprisoned.
We're standing at a crossroads. A rational, public interest view of AI can aid us solve many problems, including energy and climate, and after all, as 1 of the participants bitterly stated – AI needs a planet. The question is whether we will follow the logic of solidarity or profit. Then we'll see if there's adequate planets for all of us.
