“The conditions for long-term European sovereignty in artificial intelligence [IA] are not met at this stage. » When asked about the current position of the European Union (EU) and France in the AI race, Gabriel Hubert, co-founder of the sector start-up Dust, does not hide a certain concern. “If we don’t deliver sovereign, low-cost, low-carbon, secure AI solutions, we’re just going to buy them from the Americans”, warns the entrepreneur, who does not hesitate to cite past references as examples, such as the industrial policy of General de Gaulle or major projects such as TGV or nuclear power plants…
When we take the pulse of the sector, the tone is in unison with the recent notable parliamentary hearing of Mistral AI co-founder Arthur Mensch. On May 12, before the commission of inquiry into structural dependencies and systemic vulnerabilities in the digital sector, the leader mixed calls for voluntarism and a very alarmist message. “We don’t have time”, Europeans risk a form of “colonialism” digital from the Americans, he warned. “I’m not worried about them, I’m more worried about us”, he summarized, raising the specter of an EU “vassal state”.
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