Shaping the future of AI requires global collaboration

How do we get the AI transition right? There are three priorities in focus as we head towards the AI Action Summit in 2025 in France.

- Chloe Goupille

Artificial intelligence (IA) is more than an industrial and technological revolution. It has the potential to bring about a profound paradigm shift in our societies, in how we relate to work, information, culture and even language.

That means artificial intelligence is not a neutral technology. It is a political and civic issue that requires intense international dialogue among the planet's leaders, researchers, businesses and civil society.

France has shouldered the responsibility of building on the momentum generated by the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea and of hosting the AI Action Summit on the 10th and 11th of February in 2025, which will bring together in Paris nearly a hundred heads of state and government and a thousand civil society actors from some 100 countries.

The question we face — as users around the world, as start-ups or large corporations, as researchers and as policymakers — is ultimately a simple one: How do we get the AI transition right?

The stakes are sky-high: We must enable artificial intelligence to fulfil its initial promise of progress and empowerment in a context of shared trust that addresses the risks inherent to technological development.