AI summit Paris: French President Emmanuel Macron says AI should not be ‘Wild West’

Development of artificial intelligence (AI) should not be an unregulated “Wild West”, French President Emmanuel Macron said Friday ahead of a global summit on the technology in Paris.The call to impose rules — tempered with the pro-business president’s fundamental optimism about the technology — comes as France and Europe push to stay abreast of the AI race dominated by the US and China.

“AI can’t be the Wild West,” Macron told French regional newspapers including Ouest-France and Le Parisien in advance of the gathering of global political and tech…