Dr. Michel SERVOZ is the Special Adviser to the President of European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, for Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Labour, joins the Social Contract 2020 Team and discusses about:
- Data protection and the potential to come to some kind of agreement/understanding on an international data rule book: the issue of data use is also very important from a European perspective to enable access to AI by small companies;
- Tax: the light of the recently announced French digital tax (which will be appear in several other EU countries soon), and also in the light of announcements by some Presidential hopefuls in the US.
- Digital money: big differences across countries: China is ahead of everyone else, while Europe is very conservative on the issue. Again, the world need for a rule book to set some international standards (as we have for banking, i.e Basel III);
- Algorithms as law: the issue is to move from general principles on the use of AI to concrete rules on what to do and not do; general principles have been adopted by different countries and corporations, but they are not very concrete and do not foresee means of redress; how do we establish enforceable principles without creating a bureaucratic burden for investors and researchers?
- Dictatorship: issues concerning the competitive position of the big players: all the big players are US and China based, enjoying quasi-monopoly positions in some sectors, European companies are very small in this field, and emerging economies are largely absent from AI; the later will create dangerous imbalances, of will increase seriously some existing imbalances. How can we make sure that AI benefit to the economic development of all countries?