Emmanuel Macron wants France to become a leader in AI and avoid 'dystopia'

To avoid misuse of artificial intelligence, French President Emmanuel Macron proposed setting up a panel akin to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. France is going big on artificial intelligence (AI). President Emmanuel Macron yesterday announced a €1.5 billion plan to turn his country into a world leader for AI research and innovation, a field dominated by the United States and China. It calls for a hefty investment, a handful of specialized institutes, a focus on ethics and open data, and a call to recruit foreign researchers and French scientists working abroad to the country, not unlike Macron's 2017 "Make Our Planet Great Again" climate initiative. Macron presented his plans in a lengthy speech peppered with erudite references and touches of humor at the end of the"AI for Humanity" conference in Paris.