Members of the global military community gathered on the side-lines of an AI summit in Paris to discuss how recent developments are impacting ongoing - and future - conflicts.
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00:00On the sidelines of the Artificial Intelligence Summit in Paris, the military community gathered
00:07to discuss how AI is impacting conflicts around the world.
00:11President Macron has been urging France and the EU to step up their AI efforts, especially
00:17within the defense field.
00:19But one of the main obstacles to increased EU cooperation is data.
00:24To be effective, algorithms require many sets of different kinds of data, some of which
00:29arms producers are reluctant to share.
00:44A NATO commander said today's conflicts, such as Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine,
00:49demonstrate that alliance members don't have a choice but to keep up with the pace.
01:00So it's a matter of, it's a question of life.
01:02If you do not adapt at speed and at scale, then you die.
01:06For the allied side, it is the interoperability, to ensure that the 32 allies can work together
01:12with confidence in the data in their use, with rules of engagement that are understood
01:17by all, and that the data flows that are produced by the various allies can be mixed,
01:23can be able to participate in the same situation.
01:27The summit is already creating EU military cooperation.
01:31Helsing, a German-based company specialized in defense, teamed up with Mistral AI, a French
01:36AI startup, to develop next-generation AI systems for EU defense.