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Speech by President von der Leyen at the Artificial Intelligence Action Summit

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/lt/speech_25_471

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1 AI safety Summit   AI 안전 정상회의

2 Horizon Europe   호라이즌 유럽 (EU의 대표적인 연구·혁신 지원 프로그램(2021~2027))

3 proprietary systems   독자 시스템

4 AI Action Summit AI   행동 정상회의

5 AI Factories  AI 팩토리 // AI 혁신 허브 (EU가 추진하는 AI 인프라 프로젝트)

Prime Ministers,

Excellencies,

Ladies and gentlemen,

This is the third Summit on AI safety in just over one year.

In the same period three new generations of ever more powerful AI models have been released.

Some expect models that will approach human reasoning within a year's time.

Past summits focused on laying the groundwork for AI safety.

Together, we built a shared consensus that AI will be safe, and that it will promote our values and benefit humanity.

But this Summit is focused on action.

And that is exactly what we need right now.

The time has come for us to formulate a vision of where we want AI to take us, as society and as humanity.

And then we need to act and accelerate Europe in getting there.

This is what I would like to address today.

Europe's specific place in the global race for AI.

We want Europe to be one of the leading AI continents.

And this means embracing a way of life where AI is everywhere.

AI can help us boost our competitiveness, protect our security, shore up public health, and make access to knowledge and information more democratic.

And this is what you – entrepreneurs and researchers, investors and business leaders – are showcasing here in Paris.

This is a glimpse of the AI continent we want to become.

Too often, I hear that Europe is late to the race – while the US and China have already gotten ahead.

I disagree.

Because the AI race is far from over.

Truth is, we are only at the beginning.

The frontier is constantly moving.

And global leadership is still up for grabs. And behind the frontier, lies the whole world of AI adoption.

AI has only just begun to be adopted in the key sectors of our economy, and for the key challenges of our times.

This should be Europe's focus.

Bringing AI to industry-specific applications and harnessing its power for productivity and people.

This is where Europe can truly lead the race.

So, Europe has everything to gain.

But we need our own, distinctive approach to AI.

Too often, I have heard that we should replicate what others are doing and run after their strengths.

I think that instead, we should invest in what we can do best and build on our strengths here in Europe, which are our science and technology mastery that we have given to the world.

As this Summit shows, there is a distinct European brand of AI.

It is already driving innovation and adoption.

And it is picking up speed.

So what are its main features?

First, European AI focuses on AI adoption in complex applications, using our unique industrial and manufacturing data and know-how.

Second, European AI is cooperative. It brings talents together from different countries, sectors and backgrounds.

It is the same spirit of our collaborative approach to science, which has produced many a breakthrough and a huge pool of talent.

Just think of Horizon Europe.

And third, European AI embraces the power of open source.

And open source can spread much faster, along with proprietary systems.

It is for all these reasons that the AI start-up scene in Europe is booming.

The number of unicorns has increased by ten times in just a few years.

So, this European brand of open innovation is showing results.

But it now needs to be supercharged. And this is why this is an AI Action Summit.

We will act in two main ways.

First, we want to accelerate innovation. Europe has some of the world's fastest public supercomputers.

We are now putting them at the service of our best start-ups and scientists, so they can forge the AI we need.

In just a few months we have set up a record of 12 AI Factories.

And we are investing EUR 10 billion in them.

This is not a promise – it is happening right now, and it is the largest public investment for AI in the world, which will unlock over ten times more private investment.

Our goal is that every company, not only the big players, can access the computing power it needs.

We want AI developers to compete based on how innovative they are, not just on their access to chips or the size of their financial firepower. [715 words]