AI Security Summit brings together global leaders and CEOs eager for easier measures

2025-02-10 17:11:14 / BOTA ALFA PRESS

AI Security Summit brings together global leaders and CEOs eager for easier

World leaders and technology executives gathered in Paris today to discuss how to safely embrace artificial intelligence at a time of growing resistance to bureaucracy that businesses say is stifling innovation, according to Reuters.

The desire to curb AI has waned since previous summits in the UK and South Korea that focused world powers' attention on the dangers of the technology following the viral launch of ChatGPT in 2022.

As US President Donald Trump has rejected his predecessor's artificial intelligence security barriers to promote US competitiveness, pressure has mounted on the European Union to pursue a more relaxed approach to AI to help keep European companies in the technology race.

"If we want growth, jobs and progress, we must allow innovators to innovate, builders to build and developers to develop," OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an article in Le Monde newspaper ahead of the summit.

Some EU leaders, including the summit host, French President Emmanuel Macron, also hope that flexibility will be implemented in the bloc's new AI Act to help start-ups.

"There is a risk that some decide not to have rules and that is dangerous. But there is also the opposite risk, if Europe imposes too many rules," Macron told French regional newspapers.

"We should not be afraid of innovation," he added.

Trump's early moves on AI underscored how much strategies for regulating artificial intelligence have changed in the US, China and the EU.

European lawmakers last year passed the bloc's AI Act, the world's first comprehensive set of rules governing the technology. Tech giants and some capitals are pushing for it to be implemented leniently.

Meanwhile, China's DeepSeek challenged the United States' AI leadership last month by freely distributing a human-like reasoning system, prompting geopolitical and industrial rivals to race faster.

 

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