‘Engine of inequality’: fears over AI’s global impact dominate Paris summit Emmanuel Macron’s tech envoy warns delegates current trajectory of artificial intelligence is unsustainable.
Emmanuel Macron’s AI envoy, Anne Bouverot, opened the two-day gathering at the Grand Palais in the heart of the French capital with a speech referring to the environmental impact of AI, which requires vast amounts of energy and resource to develop and operate.
The Paris gathering has been badged as the AI action summit, whereas its UK cousin was the AI safety summit.
Max Tegmark, the scientist behind a 2023 letter calling for a pause in producing powerful AI systems, cautioned that governments and tech companies were inadvertently re-enacting the ending of the Netflix climate crisis satire Don’t Look Up.
The head of Google’s AI efforts, Demis Hassabis, said on Sunday the tech industry was “perhaps five years away” from achieving AGI and safety conversations needed to continue.
