2023-06-16 13:35:00
The controversial head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, met Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron to talk about artificial intelligence and electric cars, before participating in a technology conference.
The correspondent of Agence France-Presse indicated the arrival of the billionaire to the Elysee Palace, and his departure after meeting the French president without making any statements.
Musk and Macron discussed artificial intelligence, social networks and regulatory frameworks, and the French president had expressed his hope to persuade the American, whom he had met twice in recent months, to establish a Tesla factory in France.
During the “Choose France” investment summit in mid-May at the Palace of Versailles, the billionaire promised that Tesla would make “significant investments in France”.
But nothing has been decided so far, and he may choose Spain to compete with France, about four years after he chose Berlin to establish the first electric car factory in Europe.
Emmanuel Macron knows that this innovator has become a political force across the Atlantic, and he is as impressive as it is disturbing, as he recently obtained, through his company, “Noralink”, a license in the United States to test brain implants.
Musk is admired by American conservatives because of his fight against censorship and the reactivation of former President Donald Trump’s account on Twitter.
However, his extreme political positions will not prevent visitors to the “Viva Tech” salon from racing to hear him.
– Guest of honor –
Before coming to France, Musk visited Rome on Thursday, where he met Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and discussed “important topics” with her, such as “the risks of artificial intelligence” and “the birth rate,” the official said in a tweet.
The head of Tesla and SpaceX and Twitter’s largest shareholder will be asked about his options in his confrontation with the European Union over the social platform’s content management rules.
Elon Musk is under threat from Europe and France for refusing to set stricter rules to combat misinformation and hate on Twitter.
Upon buying the social network at the end of 2022, the billionaire tweeted that “the bird is free” and then quickly fired half the staff, a large part of which was content management.
At the end of 2022, European Commissioner Thierry Breton asked Twitter to strengthen content management and respect the Digital Services Act on the regulation of major platforms that will come into force in the coming months, under penalty of a fine of 6% of the platform’s turnover.
But at the end of May, Elon Musk upset Europeans further by ending Twitter’s compliance with the EU’s code of best practices against disinformation, prompting French Digital Affairs Minister Jean-Noel Barrot to threaten to “ban” Twitter, and a meeting between the two is scheduled for half an hour in the afternoon. Friday.
Elon Musk may talk about his vision of artificial intelligence, as he is one of the founders of the “Open AI” laboratory (the creator of Chat GBT), which he left since, calling for the suspension of research in this burgeoning field that he considers a threat to humanity, but he returned and then founded an artificial intelligence company.
Musk is scheduled to take part in the panel discussion on FIFA Tech at 4pm France time.
“Mask is the second big star with Macron and he will apparently be making job advertisements,” said an official in VivaTech’s management.
On Thursday, French Industry Minister Roland Lescure welcomed Musk’s visit, and said in a statement to Radio France International, “Ten years ago, Elon Musk would not have passed through Paris.”
“France today is more attractive than ever, but it is in very strong competition with other countries. We are doing our best to attract the best,” Lescure added.
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