The latest major technological turning point, artificial intelligence, has also been missed by Europeans, according to Fabrice Epelboin: “AI will be American, there is no doubt about that. On this revolution too, we will always be a colony“. The professor at Sciences Po points to the amount dedicated to building artificial intelligence infrastructure across the Atlantic, “500 billion dollars. In France, we are already unable to reduce the state budget by a few tens of billions“.
The only solution Fabrice Epelboin sees to reduce our dependencies, in the absence of being able to build European digital infrastructure, is to turn to “what is called open-source software, which consists of having software that is a collective property that does not belong to a company, like Linux or WordPress. Everyone is free to take it, use it, modify it for their needs, and even redistribute it. This is what China did with DeepCycle, open-source artificial intelligence. It is the only way to overturn the situation facing American power, because financially, we absolutely do not have the means. But it would take at least a decade“.
Listen to the full interview in the podcast Les Couleurs de l’Info above.
