Modi in the middle? Superpowers in the age of tech titans

François PICARD | Rebecca GNIGNATI | Elisa AMIRI | Claude BLANCHEMAISON | Jen SCHRADIE | Tanvi Madan | Palki SHARMA | Sharad SHARMA

Edité par France 24 - 2025

Altman, who swiftly rejected Musk’s offer is here in Paris for the AI summit co-hosted by France and India. Are Silicon Valley tech titans to be courted or combatted at the dawn of an almighty scramble for the planet’s data and resources? Is it a battle for market share or a battle of values?

In writing global governance rules for AI, who defines what's public and what's private, what's free speech and what's censorship or stoking hate? And how much in common between those that are neither the US nor China in setting global standards that actually protect citizens rights and foster trust in these most turbulent times?

Produced by Rebecca Gnignati, Elisa Amiri, Ilayda Habip. 

Note
  • Is it down to the Digital Age? Not only has the world become a smaller place but now, more and more power’s concentrated in fewer and fewer hands. Elon Musk’s offer to buy the parent company of ChatGPT from Sam Altman’s OpenAI is the latest example of a whole new age, an age where a billionaire like Musk can also have one foot in government as he and Donald Trump arbitrarily purge the federal payroll.

Langue
anglais
Date de publication
12/02/2025
Collection
The Debate
Contributeurs
Claude BLANCHEMAISON Former French Ambassador to Russia
Jen SCHRADIE Associate Professor, Center for Research on Social Inequalities, Sciences Po Paris
Tanvi Madan Senior Fellow at the Center for Asia Policy Studies, Brookings Institute
Palki SHARMA Managing Editor, Firstpost
Sharad SHARMA Co-founder, iSPIRT Foundation

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