AI is now a major strategic issue for states. However, ethical questions related to collection, data protection and personalization remain crucial.
The Battle of AI is launched. Donald Trump’s return to the White House made a strong geopolitical scope take on the subject. Especially since with the arrival of Deepseek and the initial investment of $ 100 billion in the Stargate project, the technological war is officially launched. In this frantic race for AI, while the United States and China intensify their implications, France intends to do well by remaining at the heart of conversations. On the occasion of the recent Summit for Action on the AI initiated in Paris, the many announcements of Emmanuel Macron illustrated the will of France to position itself as a European leader in artificial intelligence, by focusing on strategic investments and international partnerships. In particular an investment plan of 109 billion euros, supported by private and international partners, an ambitious project of infrastructure developments of data centers dedicated to AI – evaluated between 30 and 50 billion euros – as well as particular attention to the increased training of young people to AI technologies.
France must therefore take up several challenges to limit its dependence to foreign cloud suppliers and consolidate its digital sovereignty.
In this context, there is no doubt that the year 2025 will mark a major upheaval period for companies, users and economic forces worldwide.
A technology, two AI models: knife savings fired
The advances in terms of AI are often looked at with the spectrum of respect for privacy and therefore of personal data allowing to supply ever more powerful models. As could have been the case for the cloud, and the regionalization of data centers to better reassure the companies responsible for the data hosted by their customers, the AI must gain confidence on this front. It is now time to tackle the heart of the subject: who to give our confidence in the development of AI? It is the same for other sectors including the automobile for example, where these two super economies compete tirelessly, by omitting at first that other territories are also led to use these technologies, or even also to innovate, and in a second step, that the legislation will be leaning on the subject sooner or later.
The ethical question in AI innovation should be essential. How to do since these models always become more powerful thanks to the large number of users who feed them? Ideally, each company that wishes to adopt an outdoor-oriented approach must ask the following question “Will the chosen approach surprise and satisfy the end user?” ». If in fact, the innovations that are very successful such as Chatgpt or Deepseek delight users very quickly, the question around data protection remains omnipresent. While Deepseek is based on an open source model, Chatgpt remains a owner model, limiting transparency on its operation. This type of model therefore raises questions about potential biases and risks linked to its use for users.
Towards the possibility of a various and ethical universal AI?
The world is diverse and expectations according to cultures may differ. Today, this techno-guerrilla takes up new scale. Donald Trump declared that Stargate was “the most important project of that time” with an initial investment of $ 100 billion and an additional 400 billion over the next 4 years, while the Chinese entrepreneur Jennifer Zhu Scott retorted that the Americans were “rich kids who were doubled by poor kids” Chatgpt. How to soothe the words in this tense context? Because after the time of innovation and the explosion comes that of sustainability. So many promising advances have been implemented in the past, coming up against the reality of our time, such as Metaverse for example.
Today we know the rule of principles that make it possible to build an ethical culture, namely confidence in the models used and the development of technologies, integrity by aiming to protect consumers’ privacy at all costs and then secure their data, and of course external partnerships in order to precisely avoid opaque operations, and to be suspected of complacency with a state for example.
A new industrial era that will redraw the economic future of the world
Nearly 240 years after the first industrial revolution which saw mechanization born, the 2020 decade seems to accelerate that of the personalization and humanization of technologies, as well as the objective of the services rendered and sold. Starting horseback between this need for individuality and bringing together communities, while being more and more respectful of the environment, industry is gradually going towards its next revolution, that which should be predicted, producing technologies and materials that work jointly with nature, thanks to organic materials and ecosystem intelligence. But there is no point in going faster than music. And to get there, you have to focus on the present so as not to make mistakes that could slow down, even orient the future in the wrong direction.
After the euphoria of innovation that blows on the markets, the regulations will quickly invite itself into the game. Although it is difficult to regulate new technologies, especially since they are constantly evolving, it is necessary to consider this aspect. Companies could become more and more suspicious of using data when they want to train their AI models. And what about those who use it without any regulations have passed by there?
The future will tell us more, but it is almost sure that we will soon be witnessing an ethical data market, even the creation of synthetic data to build models that could become more common.
