If you made it through 2024 without hearing about the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) in business, for better or for worse, you are in a small minority. AI has been the subject of dozens of debates, reports and symposia since its emergence. The summit devoted to it on February 10 and 11 in Paris, co-chaired by India, is billed as a global high mass, to be attended by around a hundred heads of state and government, researchers, scientists, artists and representatives of non-governmental organizations.

The craze is all the more palpable because this technology is full of promise. It could boost productivity by 1.5 percentage points a year over 10 years and increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 7%, enthused Goldman Sachs in 2023. For France, it could boost GDP by 0.8 to 1.3 percentage points a year, in other words almost double the current growth figure by 2034, according to the March 2024 report by France's Artificial Intelligence Commission. On paper, AI represents a lever capable of lifting France's economy out of its sluggish state, with growth not expected to exceed 0.8% this year.

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