The National AI Strategy seeks to implement the recommendations from Cadric Villani's report on AI (March 28, 2018). It features an ambitious national research program, various policies to promote AI integration in the economy and public administration, and initiatives to foster trustworthy AI. A National Coordinator, appointed by the Prime Minister, oversees its execution across nine ministries and other public entities since 2020.
Name in original language
Stratégie nationale pour l'intelligence artificielle
Initiative overview
In November 2021, France launched a revised version of the national AI strategy. France's strategy is largely based on 2018 Cedric Villani's report, "making sense of artificial intelligence - for a national and European strategy". The primary themes of the Villani Report are: (1) developing an aggressive data policy to improve access to big data, (2) targeting four strategic sectors - healthcare, environment, transport, and defence, (3) boosting the potential of French research and investing in talent, (4) planning for the impact of AI on labour, (5) making AI more environmentally friendly, (6) opening up the black boxes of AI, and (7) ensuring that AI supports inclusivity and diversity.The initiative has the following objectives:Axis 1 : To enhance research ecosystem on AI in France, by more financial ressources (+/-500 PhD and tenures created), new infrastructures (supercalculator Jean Zay), and more links with the industry (3IA institutes etc).Axis 2 : To accelerate AI dissemination in the economy, public administration and society.Axis 3 : To encourage the development of an Trustworthy AI, either at the national level (Grand Defi Fiabiliser et securiser l'intelligence artificielle) or at the international lever (GPAI)Axis 5 : Develop and reinforce excellence in AI educational programs, to increase AI content across all universities to create a mass effect.Among other initiatives aimed at addressing generative AI there are:- Call for projects for the creation of digital commons for (multimodal) generative AI in French- Global generative AI challenge to evaluate the state of the art among LLM models in the world
Budget information available?
Available
Estimated budget expenditure range per year in Euros (EUR)
€500,000,000.00
Has this initiative been evaluated?
Yes
Are evaluation results public?
No
