Good morning, Peter Vanham here in Paris, filling in for Alan.
In the U.S., A.I. leaders nowadays are warning Washington to regulate the technology before it will “destroy humanity.” But in Paris, French President Emmanuel Macron is urging French A.I. startups to catch up to their American and Chinese peers rather than threatening to regulate or tax them. “We’re going to invest like crazy [in A.I.],” he said at Vivatech, a large tech summit I attended here yesterday.
