France’s Everlasting Consultant to OECD, Amelie de Montchalin, stated that India and France are working collectively as the 2 nations share the identical imaginative and prescient on what synthetic intelligence (AI) can convey as a instrument for extra growth, innovation and prosperity.
Chatting with ANI, Amelie de Montchalin famous that France and India have digital public infrastructure in frequent.
On being requested about India and France’s function in AI, Montchalin stated, “So, India and France are actually working collectively as a result of now we have the identical imaginative and prescient of what AI can convey as a instrument for extra growth, as a instrument for innovation, as a instrument for prosperity. However, we even have the identical values.”
“We need to hold our sovereign autonomy to make it possible for we’re having the management of our applied sciences. We’ve the identical imaginative and prescient of cyber. So, the truth that we work collectively can be the signal that we need to make it possible for AI is on the service of all folks, all throughout the planet, so with out division between what we name the north and the south,” she added.
Requested whether or not there may be any dialogue between two nations when it comes to AI, Amelie de Montchalin stated, “In order , France and India, now we have one thing in frequent, that are digital public infrastructure. I used to be in command of civil service reform and I used to be in command of the digital public providers in France. And they’re very shut and really related of their considering from what you do right here in India along with your very profitable digital public infrastructure. So we’ll proceed to work collectively on this.”
“We’re additionally discussing as a part of the worldwide partnership on AI, find out how to be AI for good, open AI options to face local weather change, agriculture, good cities, water sources, and make it possible for these algorithms are free, open, not only for India and France, but additionally to different growing and rising nations, and that is one thing I do know in India needs to do much more and that France will assist and we’ll do collectively,” she added.
She lauded India for organising the ‘World IndiaAI Summit’ and known as it a “main success.” She said that the convention in Delhi is a follow-up to the G20 Summit in Delhi held in 2023. French envoy additionally talked in regards to the AI Motion Summit set to be held in February 2025 and added that India shall be invited to the Summit.
Talking about India’s function within the propagation of AI, Montchalin stated, “So I feel it’s a significant success to have this Delhi convention as we speak, this ministerial assembly of the World Partnership on AI. I feel it’s additionally the follow-up of your G20. I have to say that what occurred as we speak between the ministers was one thing that President Macron and Prime Minister Modi have mentioned right here in Delhi in September 2023.”
“So, lower than one yr after, we’re having the outcomes and the end result and the brand new dynamic of this group now becoming a member of greater than 40 nations collectively from the north, from the south, from the east, from the west, from throughout the planet to work collectively. And we may have in February 2025 in Paris what we name the AI Motion Summit the place India shall be invited, the place we’ll proceed to work collectively. And for me, it’s actually a very good place as we speak to be as a result of the imaginative and prescient now we have in frequent is one which, for me, will convey success to our folks, to the planet and to innovation,” she added.
The ‘World IndiaAI Summit’ is being organized in New Delhi on July 3-4. In keeping with the official assertion, the Summit will deal with key pillars of the AI ecosystem, together with Compute Capability, Foundational Fashions, Datasets, Utility Growth, Future Expertise, Startup Financing, and Secure and trusted AI.
