French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on June 16 that the government will invest 655 million euros ($758.3 million) in artificial intelligence and develop its own tools, independent of the United States and other countries.
“We can either be subjected to this revolution, or we can lead it,” Lecornu said in a post on X.
Lecornu said the French government would set up a common chatbot for all of the government’s services, and a public health chatbot for Ameli, the state-owned health insurance portal.
“The question is not whether the state will use the artificial intelligence anymore, but the question is how fast will it transform,” said Lecornu, who was speaking at the start of the Viva Tech conference in Paris….